Libertarians/ anarchist against Nice

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday August 23, 2002 14:07 by Libertarians against Nice chekovfeeney at yahoo dot com

Founding meeting for National Campaign

Details and dates of the founding meeting of the libertarain campaign against the Nice Treaty

Anarchist and libertarian groups and individuals from all across Ireland are meeting in Dublin on Saturday 7th September to found a campaign against the Nice Treaty. This follows on from local discussion that have already taken place in Dublin, at Ecotopia, the anarchist summer camps etc and on the Irish anarchism list. At this stage it looks like the campaign will include the WSM, ASF, AF, Cork Anarchist Alliance and individuals from RTS, Gluseacht and other groups and individuals involved in the Grassroots Gatherings.

Discussions to date indicate that the probable basis of the campaign will be on the following points, although the exact wording etc is to be worked out.

No to capitalist globalisation
No to militarism
No to Fortress Europe
No to the extension of police powers
Yes to a libertarian Europe from below

Up to now the right have made most of the running with the No vote. We see a need for a libertarian No campaign that argues for a No vote on a libertarian basis. This is not just about defeating the referendum it is also about making the defeat a progressive one rather then one based on the sort of racist rhetoric that so far has dominated the debate. So we strongly encourage all anarchists and libertarians in Ireland, north and south, to attend this meeting. It will take place at 14.30 hours in the Teachers Club, 35, Parnell Square, Dublin on Saturday 7th September.

We don't want a campaign where some group turns up at the first meeting with the campaign posters and leaflets already printed out. So please bring along draft posters and ideas for the campaign. A draft leaflet for discussion will be prepared on the Irish Anarchism list in the week before the meeting on the basis of drafts emailed to that list. So if you want to take part in that process be sure to join Irish Anarchism. This draft will then be amended at the meeting itself. We hope to print and distribute tens of thousands of leaflets in the run up to the referendum, again the number that we do will depend on your involvement.

For more details or to add items to the agenda or if you can't make the meeting but want to receive any material produced please contact Chekov at [email protected] or ring/SMS us at 087 7939931. To take part in the ongoing discussion about the anarchist campaign email [email protected]
The evening after the meeting there will be a fundraiser for Reclaim the Streets. On Sunday there will be an RTS creativity session to prepare banners etc for the party on the 22nd so if you are travelling from outside Dublin you can make a weekend out of it.

Various anarchists have already begun working on the referendum, and already there are some web pages up and some more in preparation. This includes the page at http://struggle.ws/about/nice.html which now includes some detailed briefing documents on the Nice treaty as well as links to the various official documents and other relevant articles. If you know of material that should be linked from that page or other Irish libertarian pages on Nice please email details of them to [email protected].

Again the founding meeting will be at 14.30 hours in the Teachers Club, 35, Parnell Square, Dublin on Saturday 7th September. Make sure YOU are there!