Racist Stickers in Dublin

by joeboy Mon Aug 19, 2002 16:08 087 9032281

Ripped them down on our way to Stoney's pub in Hill Street. Locals were disgusted- Mick reckoned it was the work of the IPP nutter. They've still got a poster up opposite the Temple but it's really high- we should get a ladder and rip it down in public.

More Chinese students were assaulted in Temple Bar. Am talking to Chinses community this evening about racist attacks.

by Sniper Mon Aug 19, 2002 21:06

If the idiots putting up those stickers had any guts they would go to the North and fight against the real enemy.

Picking on refugees is cruel and gutless. Up the Ra.

by hopespringseternal Tue Aug 20, 2002 11:22

yeah, my knee jerk reaction was to rip it down when I saw it (it caught my eye very easily, standing out on a poster for a gig on a hoarding on dame st.), and I did.

Then afterwards I thought, umm, why did I do that? Firstly I considered that I was denying whoever put them up the right to free speech. But fuck that, if his breeds racism and hatred. But then I considered that if these idiots are allowed to have their more illogical, stupid, narrow minded views aired by the general public, most of whom are reasonable generous people, then they will do themselves more harm than good. I knew that any locals reading this would be disgusted. It's important that the more extreme views of the right in Ireland are exposed rather than letting them fester and hide and cloak themselves in some sort of recession backlash.

Though I think I would still rip more off if I saw purely because they would cause offense and fear in the good people who they are directed at.

I remember ripping off a very offensive anti-semetic sticker in the Jewish quarter of Toledo, Spain, having to nearly put my back out to reach it's height, and turning around afterwards only to have a very curious local Jew smiling at me. Nice moment.

Declan

by Chuckie Tue Aug 20, 2002 11:55

The real enemy is green fascists as much as it is loyalist fascists. I don't want idiots like that in my revolution, they're a liability. I'm a republican - against unionist domination because it is domination, not because they're prods and we're the Celtic people or some spurious racist nonsense. These people should be removed from our midst.

by Chuckie Tue Aug 20, 2002 11:57

The real enemy is green fascists as much as it is loyalist fascists. I don't want idiots like that in my revolution, they're a liability. I'm a republican - against unionist domination because it is domination, not because they're prods and we're the Celtic people or some spurious racist nonsense. These people should be removed from our midst.

by AFA Tue Aug 20, 2002 13:52

I don't really think whoever put up the stickers actually believes all the crap about "Invasion" and the "GPO in 1916". It looks like a way of catching the eye and trying to win very thick people over with simplistic 'nationalist' slogans. All previous IPP stickers have been like the slogans in No. 3., although they have used little cartoons of round towers and wolfhounds on stickers. What these have to do with immigration is anyones guess.

by Joe C - Globalise Resistance Wed Aug 21, 2002 21:27

Please bring your friends, family and workmates
STOP RACIST ATTACKS
Rally at the GPO
3pm Saturday 24th August
Called by Globalise Resistance
and Chinese Students United

Last weekend, 50 year old Leong Ly Min was attacked by a gang in Temple Bar who hurled racist insults at him. He died of his injuries days later. Leong Ly Min had lived in Dublin since 1979, since he and his wife had come here as refugees from Vietnam. All his children were born here in Ireland.

In January of this year, 29 year old Zhao Liu Tao, a Chinese student of English, was beaten to death with an iron bar. He was attacked by a gang of teenagers who again taunted him with racist insults whilst they beat him. Many foreign students, immigrants and refugees now fear to walk the streets of Dublin at night. Daily, they are spat on, have bottles, eggs and stones thrown at them, and are often the victims of brutal, unprovoked racist attacks.

Many Irish people who lived abroad in Britain were at the receiving end of racist assaults from thugs. We were called Paddys and Micks and told to go home. In Northern Ireland, people are beaten, intimidated from their schools, have blast bombs thrown at their front doors and are killed- all because they are Irish.

The majority of Irish people have no time for racism, and it's about time we showed it. This Saturday, a rally is being held at the GPO against racist attacks and in solidarity with all immigrants and refugees who have come to our shores. People of all colours and nationalities should have the right to live, study and work here in peace.

For more info phone Joe at 087 9032281
Or email [email protected]