Weed The Citizens
Let me recap on what I think is the effectiveness of the idea of Real Democracy Now / Democracia Real Ya element of the 15-M movement. When it works, it engages people as citizens – but...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Indignant: Spain, Greece, Europe
This article is based on a contribution to a seminar held at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities last Friday called The Rise of the Indignant: Spain, Greece, Europe. Audio from the event is...
View ArticleEnough national demonstration, Dublin 16th July 2011
Hundreds took part in a national demonstration to say no to the EU/IMF deal in Dublin last Saturday. People from many groups and none took part from Sligo to Waterford, Wexford, Cork, everywhere! This...
View ArticleFrom OccupyWallStreet to Occupying Our Streets
Like many people I am fairly sick of hearing the question, when will Irish people say “enough” and finally take to the streets? Maybe the answer to that is the 15th of October. In the...
View ArticleA Point of Process: Occupy Dame Street Moves into its Third Week
In Occupy Dame Street practice, we indicate a point of process by making a letter “T” with both hands (like time out in basketball, for instance). We also call it a technical point. It is...
View ArticleStop The Billion Dollar Heist March This Saturday 29th of Oct. Meet at Garden...
From #occupydamestreet Stop The Billion Dollar Heist: On November 2nd 2011, next Wednesday, a $1,000,000,000 bond comes due at Anglo Irish Bank. This bond is unsecured, unguaranteed, a bond we have...
View ArticleA Day Spent in Tahrir Square
David Lynch spent Sunday on the streets around a Tahrir Square in revolt. He will be writing about the events in Cairo in the Sunday Business Post on Sunday and we’ll be putting his posts...
View ArticleFood for Thought: A member of #occupydamestreet reflects on what it still...
Lately there has been some obscurity around what ODS actually stands for and what it’s internal principles or tenets are as a movement. This obscurity is to blame, in part, by aggressive attempts at...
View ArticleCovering the Sphinx in Wax or talking about Shaw and Mahfouz
“You are Irish, I like George Bernard Shaw” “Shaw. Wow…I don’t know much about him” The disappointment on the face of the Egyptian man sitting beside me would have made the Sphinx cry. It was...
View ArticleThe Left and Our Fight for Genuine Democratic Control
This editorial was originally published in the latest edition of Look Left. “[To] substitute for the choice of masters the appointment of reliable public servants under direct public control, that will...
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