"An injury to one is the concern of all", according to Free Education for Everyone spokesperson.

Indymedia Links:
Interviews with students on the now infamous protest | Students Occupy Department Of Finance
Other Links:
FEE (Free Education for Everyone) official website | Photos from protest
Wikipedia Links:
2010 student protest in Dublin | 2010 student protest in London | 2008–2010 Irish financial crisis | COINTELPRO

Upwards of 25,000 students from across Ireland descended onto the streets of Dublin on Wednesday 3rd November, 2,000 students broke off and occupied the Department of Finance, here are 2 interviews with students present.

Indymedia Links:
Students Occupy Department of Finance | Video: Police attack Student demo in Dublin | Irish Media is an accomplice of Police Brutality | The Role of the Gardai
Déjà vu from Mayo::
MarShell Law at Bellanboy | Reclaiming the Streets: Garda Review on the Ballinaboy Protests | Pat & Jonathan O'Donnell Arrested and Boats Commandeered by Gardai As Solitaire's Arrival Imminent | Shell Corrib Gas - Who are the real Thugs & Bullies?
Déjà vu from 2004::
Fortress Dublin?
Déjà vu from 2002::
VIDEO - Reclaim The Streets - Police Riots - Street Party | Reclaim the Streets Media Beat-up begins | Police Violence Caught on Film
Terence Wheelock case:
No Justice for Wheelock family
Other Links:
UK police kill one individual every week | FEE (Free Education for Everyone) official website
Wikipedia Links:
Gards Siochana | Gards Emergency response unit | Garda Special detective unit

Participants view the finished wind turbine in action

From Wednesday the 27th to Sunday the 31st of January, the Rossport Solidarity Camp hosted a wind power workshop. Local people and campers united to learn metal work, wood work and electronics to produce a fully functional 2.4 meter diameter wind turbine, now supplying power to the off-grid Rossport Solidarity House. The use of farmer's shed for the week was kindly by donated which was the perfect base for the workshop. The course was led by V3 Power, a workers co-operative based in Nottingham specialising in teaching courses in how to build DIY wind turbines.

Related Links:
Shell to sea website | Hugh Pigotts website | More about Hugh's work (video) | Gluaiseacht website | more about V3

Not Building for the Irish Indpendent's
Future, anymore!

Irish primary schools celebrated a victory this week as Independent Newspapers abandoned their “Building for the Future” scheme just weeks after its high-profile launch.

It is the first time a major in-school marketing promotion has been scrapped and is an embarrassing climb down for Independent and their co-sponsors Bank of Ireland.

The launch of “Building for the Future”, which demanded a quota of 20 tokens per pupil from schools wishing to enter, was met with condemnation from across the teaching community.

Related Links:
50 Primary Principals speak out against Independent Newspapers’ “Building for the Future” promotion | Call for Students to Boycott A.I.B. School Bank | Schools Out! Stop the Commercialisation of Education | Against Supevalu's Kids in Action Voucher Scheme | Against Commercialism in Irish Education | INTO Calls for End to Commercial Exploitation of School Children

Education Articles on Indymedia.ie

Marching Against the Education Cuts

“I am totally depressed as I believe a huge amount of work has been totally undone … support structures to assist the most vulnerable have been undermined, which will mean that discipline and pastoral care structures will be affected”

•  Principal, boys' secondary school, Leinster

The Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI) has published a report into the effects that the cuts to education, announced in Budget 2008 (and reaffirmed with the April Budget of this year), will have. Most of these cuts will not become noticeable until the new school year, when it may be too late to have them reversed.

Related Links:
* Click Here for education articles on Indymedia.ie
* Resist or Resign: On Tuesday a delegation from the Dublin City Post Primary Branch of the Teachers Union of Ireland protested at the ICTU HQ in Parnell Sq, Dublin. The delegation was led by Branch officers, supported by branch members and students from UCD.
* Event Notice: Dublin: Protest Against the Education Cuts
* Another Day, Another Protest against the education cuts