1% Network Budget Day Protest – 5.30 Wolfe Tone statue

dublin | anti-capitalism | event notice Tuesday November 30, 2010 12:05 by 1of99 - 1% Network 1percentnetwork at gmail dot com

Tuesday 7th December will see the imposition of yet another vicious budget to protect the wealthy 1% and make the rest of us pay for the crisis. The 1% network will be meeting up at the Wolfe Tone statue at 5.30pm to join the left bloc protest at the Dail at 6.

Meeting up 07 December · 17:30 – 18:00
Wolfe Tone statue, Stephens Green opposite Shelbourne Hotel
Stephens Green North
Dublin, Ireland

In 2007, the richest 1% of the population owned 34% of the wealth. This October researcher Tom O’Connor showed that the total ‘net worth’ of the 33,000 Irish millionaires… is still a whopping €121billion.

It is both wrong and immoral that this 1% should hold onto such vast wealth while the rest of us face savage attacks on our living standards and on our public services. More importantly, this concentration of wealth in a tiny number of hands means that political power is also concentrated in the hands of this elite. If we wish to re-shape society and to build a new society based on equality and real democracy, we need to find a way to take political power away from the wealthy elite.

If your on Facebook you can RSVP at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106734582733761 otherwise if you haven’t done so already be sure to join the 1% Networks group on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=143661105666744