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Northern appeal supporting those jailed over Bin Charges

category national | bin tax / household tax / water tax | news report author Thursday September 25, 2003 00:10author by John Doe - back again Report this post to the editors

Here is an updated list of those who've agreed with the petition. (Mainly Northerners, with a few Austrian names added.)

Northern trade unionists and community activists call for protests at jailing of Bin Tax campaigners

The jailing of Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins and Cllr Clare Daly for one month for their refusal to cease campaigning against the bin tax in Dublin is an attack on working class peoples rights to protest against injustice.

Initial list of names
Carmel Gates, NIPSA President (personal capacity)
Padraig Mulholland, NIPSA General Council member (personal capacity)
Brian Booth, NIPSA General Council member (personal capacity)
Kevin Lawrenson, NIPSA General Council member (personal capacity)
Paul Dale, NIPSA General Council member (personal capacity)
Carol Barnet, NIPSA General Council member (personal capacity) Mary Cahillane Irish National Teachers Organisation Executive member
Gordon McNeill
Madan Gumpta
Chris Bowyer, sacked Belfast International airport shop stewards, ATGWU
Jimmy Adamson, sacked AUEW activist, Montupet strike.
Jim Barbour, FBU Executive Committee
Jim Quinn FBU, Chairperson NI
Tony Maguire, Belfast Trades Council
Anton McCabe, Omagh Trades Council
Mickey Duffy, NIPSA Fermanagh & Tyrone Health Branch
Harry Hutchinson, Secretary T&GWU Mid-Ulster & West Branch
Tommy Carlisle, ATGWU member.
Peter Hadden
Gary Mulcahy
Ciaran Mulholland
Northern Regional Executive Committee, Socialist Party
Socialist Youth

Additional Names/Organisations

Omagh Trades Union Council
Benny Cassidy, Chair Fermanagh Trades Union Council and Joint Secretary UNISON Omagh and Fermanagh Branch
Eamonn McCann, Journalist, Vice-Chair Derry Trades Council
Gerry Quigley, Shop Steward, Derry docks and Branch Committee, 3/3 Branch, ATGWU, Derry
Tony Murray Branch Committee 3/3 Branch ATGWU, Derry
Patsy Sweeney, ATGWU Shop Steward, Ulsterbus, Omagh
Kevin McCafferty CWU (Engineering) Branch Treasurer, Derry
Padraig Campbell, National Off-Shore Committee, SIPTU
Joe O'Toole, Chair National Off-Shore Committee, SIPTU
Uel Adair, Regional Officer AMICUS-AEEU, Derry
Goretti Horgan AMICUS-MSF
Kevin Cooper, Chair Northern Ireland Committee National Union of Journalists
Michael Grimes Secretary Omagh Branch National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers
NIPSA Branch Committe, Branch 7 (CSA)
Geraldine Burns NIPSA Branch 7 (CSA)

Laurence Rush, Omagh Bomb Victim and Justice Campaigner
John McAteer, Editor, Tirconaill Tribune

Councillor Raymond Blaney, Down District Council
Betty Given, Chair Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (Personal Capacity)


Michael Gillespie, Secretary West Donegal Land League
Lawrence Smyth, General Secretary Northern Ireland Agricultural Producers' Association
Gerry McCusker, Chair Omawest Community Association, Omagh
Maire Harrington, Spokesperson Mayo Against Gas
Patricia Campbell, Chair Lough Neagh Fishermen's Association

As well as local, we've been sent these names:

Austria:
Signing organisations and persons:
Baier Walterm, Chairman of Communist Party Austria (KPÖ)
Grusch Peter, Councillor, Vienna District Council Brigittenau, Green Party.
Union of Salaried Private Sector Employees (GPA) -Member of the Controll-Comission
Jonischkeit Oliver, Austrian Trade Union Federation Member of Excecutive Board
Maresch Rüdiger, Councillor, Vienna City Council, Green Party, Spokesperson for Environment Questions of the Green Party Vienna
Regner Peter, Schoolstudentsrepresentative AHS-Glasergasse Vienna 9
Unterwurzacher Jakob, Vize-Schoolstudentsrepresentative AHS-Glasergasse Vienna 9
Communist Party Austria, Kommunistische Partei Österreich (KPÖ)
Socialist LeftParty (SLP), Sozialistische LinksPartei (SLP)
Trade Union Left Block, Gewerkschaftlicher Linksblock (GLB)

If you wish to have your name added, or that of a political/community organisation,please send details to

Bin Charges Appeal/Petition
[email protected]

regards,

John D

ps
The original text of the appeal is available at the site lsited above.

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