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TONIGHT IN MONO at 9pm- MUSICIANS SUPPORTING CIVIL LIBERTIES national |
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 Thursday August 29, 2002 13:22 by Movement of the Imagination - Globalise Resistance globalise_resistance at yahoo dot com 087 9032281
 Stand Up For Your Rights II! (The Resistance Strikes Back) Benefit Gig for the protestors arrested outside the Burlington Hotel last year- they are up in court in September and could face hefty fines and criminal records for protesting- any groups interested in having stalls please phone us
Happy City Samba School e7 oppressed doletariat Last October 14 people were arrested under the Public Order Act while taking part in a peaceful protest. This September, 10 of them must face Excerpts from an eyewitness report: The protest was called by GR against the 2nd Global Summit on Public Private Partnerships (PPP), where international corporate delegates Many groups were at the protest- the Dublin Anti-Bin charges campaign, opposing double taxation and privatisation of refuse services; the Bus workers Action Group, a rank and file trade union ....Dublin was now witnessing a full blown police riot. GR activists, now aware that the second baton charge had succeeded in splitting the group in two, realised we were being surrounded, and that it was time to make a retreat. As more police reinforcements arrived, protestors decided to march to Pearse Street station, where we were told the nine arrested were taken. Undercover cops began pointing out GR organisers and As we began moving away, I witnessed one of the most horrific police actions I have personally seen, even compared to Genoa and Melbourne. A snatch squad of about ten luminous jacketed cops ran, charging at the march from behind, with the wooden batons over their heads. People were lashed into indiscriminately.
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=13722&group=webcast
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4A bit fuckin pricey Joe, dont ya think?
maybe but it is a funraiser
very cheap if you think of all the pints that re going to have to be bought for everyone involved in lieu of payment. Plus some really great musicians.
HAD A GREAT NIGHT, WELL DONE.
see you at the RTS fundraiser on Sept 7th