TONIGHT IN MONO at 9pm- MUSICIANS SUPPORTING CIVIL LIBERTIES

national | miscellaneous | news report

Thursday August 29, 2002 13:22

by Movement of the Imagination - Globalise Resistance

globalise_resistance at yahoo dot com

087 9032281

Stand Up For Your Rights II! (The Resistance Strikes Back)

Benefit Gig for the protestors arrested outside the Burlington Hotel last year- they are up in court in September and could face hefty fines and criminal records for protesting- any groups interested in having stalls please phone us

9pm till late
CLUB MONO
Wexford Street, Dublin
Thursday 29th August

Happy City Samba School
The Oriental Band (Arabic beats and strings)
Fracas
Gary Fitzpatrick and R.B from Texas
Dj Trips Madden (Dancehall/Reggae)
DJ Paddy Dempsey (Eyewobble, Messy at Mono)
Plus campaign stalls and infos, videos,preformance art and special
guests

e7 oppressed doletariat
e10 exploited wageslaves

Last October 14 people were arrested under the Public Order Act while taking part in a peaceful protest. This September, 10 of them must face
charges in court. We ask anyone who has the time to come and support them by holding a vigil outside the court and letting the police know
that we find this unacceptable, and that we call for the Public Order Act to be scrapped.

Excerpts from an eyewitness report:

The protest was called by GR against the 2nd Global Summit on Public Private Partnerships (PPP), where international corporate delegates
banqueted with ministers of finance from countries leading the way in neo-liberal privatisation of public services. The banquet was held in the exclusive Southside Burlington Hotel. The conference was endorsed by the Irish minister for Finance, Charlie Mc Creevy, in a move which
many Irish activists interpreted as a statement of intent that the control was preparing for a huge new wave of privatisations in the airports, buses, rail, health and education.

Many groups were at the protest- the Dublin Anti-Bin charges campaign, opposing double taxation and privatisation of refuse services; the Bus workers Action Group, a rank and file trade union
network that has led strikes on the capital's buses for proper funding of public transport, water service workers from ballymun (with placards parodying the old Irish rebel song: Not even our rivers run free), Globalise Resistance, the Green Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the anarchist Workers Solidarity Movement and Joe Higgin's Socialist Party....

....Dublin was now witnessing a full blown police riot. GR activists, now aware that the second baton charge had succeeded in splitting the group in two, realised we were being surrounded, and that it was time to make a retreat. As more police reinforcements arrived, protestors decided to march to Pearse Street station, where we were told the nine arrested were taken. Undercover cops began pointing out GR organisers and
people who had spoken earlier at the picket.

As we began moving away, I witnessed one of the most horrific police actions I have personally seen, even compared to Genoa and Melbourne. A snatch squad of about ten luminous jacketed cops ran, charging at the march from behind, with the wooden batons over their heads. People were lashed into indiscriminately.