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Thursday November 20, 2003 05:37

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Dave Murphy, the UCD student currently in prison for taking part in peaceful protests against the bin tax has been elected to the UCD Academic Council. Meanwhile the boycott of Coca-Cola products has been endorsed in a second referendum.

Murphy topped the poll by some distance in the elections for student seats on University College Dublin's Academic Council. Dave is a Socialist Youth and Campaign for Free Education activist from Tallaght. The Student Union has already started a campaign to free him.

This vote will help bring further attention to the fight against the bin tax amongst UCD students. The last member of the Council to be imprisoned was Eoin MacNeill.

Simultaneously a second referendum was taking place on the Student Union's boycott of Coca-Cola products. The boycott was initiated in response to a call from Columbian bottling workers who had been subjected to intimidation and even murder by right wing paramilitaries.

The policy was decided in an earlier referendum. Right-wing students collected signatures to force a rerun of the poll.

During the campaign, Anne Speed, Sinn Fein's industrial organiser and a SIPTU offical, led a delegation to Belfield to leaflet in support of Coca-Cola management. Nevertheless, students repeated their vote in favour of a boycott.

56% voted No to overturning the boycott on an increased turnout. Could these two results, following last year's Campaign for Free Education and the ousting of Fianna Fail from control of the Students Union, be signs of a return of student radicalism out by the Stillorgan dual carriageway?

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Comments (44 of 44)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Good News	delighted	Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:12
2	Congratulations!	John Meehan	Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:27
3	well done	ollie	Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:32
4	Coke and Siptu and the Boycott	Gearoid O Loingsigh	Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:54
5	%-)	iosaf	Thu Nov 20, 2003 12:26
6	Anne Speed Political Biography	Oganach	Thu Nov 20, 2003 13:40
7	Accurate and Factual Political Biography of Anne Speed and People's Democracy	John Meehan	Thu Nov 20, 2003 13:59
8	UCD Vote- implications for SIPTU, SF and USI	tallyrand	Thu Nov 20, 2003 15:26
9	Excellent result on Coke	Cian	Thu Nov 20, 2003 15:31
10	Coca Cola boycott? F*ck off!	Aido McBane	Thu Nov 20, 2003 16:34
11	Coke and SF	Janus	Thu Nov 20, 2003 17:03
12	Some questions	Steelie	Thu Nov 20, 2003 17:15
13	victory!!	ci	Thu Nov 20, 2003 17:25
14	2 referendums and 2 fingers to coke,siptu and the right.	Angry Liberal	Thu Nov 20, 2003 18:05
15	what about the rest of the bin taxers?	random input	Thu Nov 20, 2003 18:37
16	Results of Election	tallyman	Thu Nov 20, 2003 18:50
17	cheers	random input	Thu Nov 20, 2003 19:09
18	on transfers	tallyman	Thu Nov 20, 2003 19:30
19	don't forget to sign the petition to Free Dave and the others	petition man	Thu Nov 20, 2003 19:33
20	reply to Steelie's Questions	UCD activist	Thu Nov 20, 2003 19:45
21	Why are lies repeated?	Ciaran Flemming	Thu Nov 20, 2003 21:57
22	TCD Students	In awe	Thu Nov 20, 2003 22:43
23	Coke workers	trade unionist	Fri Nov 21, 2003 00:42
24	Ann Speed = Yellow	yellow Union	Fri Nov 21, 2003 01:10
25	ahem	random input	Fri Nov 21, 2003 02:36
26	College - best years of my life	seedot	Fri Nov 21, 2003 04:54
27	Trolling!	Seán	Fri Nov 21, 2003 10:03
28	Lies, and the lieing liars who tell them	SF supporter	Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:35
29	Sinn Fein whataboutary	Mé Féin	Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:07
30	Answers	Answerer	Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:20
31	Mé Féin	dg	Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:21
32	Correcting Lies II	SF Supporter	Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:34
33	Answerer	SF Supporter	Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:44
34	Coca Cola is one of the largest multi-national-corporations	%-)	Fri Nov 21, 2003 13:39
35	Cheese rocks!!	Cormac	Fri Nov 21, 2003 17:03
36	Dick did well.........	Rightwinger	Sat Nov 22, 2003 14:06
37	SIPTU solidarity stoppages would not raise need for boycotts	Johnny Wilkinson	Sun Nov 23, 2003 03:33
38	Angry Liberal is one angry motha!	Starstruck	Mon Nov 24, 2003 21:20
39	SU politics & coke	interested	Fri Nov 28, 2003 11:38
40	What do YFG matter?	Binchy Watcher	Fri Nov 28, 2003 13:18
41	SU tallyman	SU tallyman	Fri Nov 28, 2003 13:57
42	YFG	not exactly a 'binchy' watcher	Fri Nov 28, 2003 23:12
43	Right wing Dream Ticket	Tallyrand	Sun Nov 30, 2003 18:11
44	re: talyrand	gravity	Mon Dec 01, 2003 14:27

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