#dublin protest

[vyorei]

📣IRISH COMRADES LISTEN UP📣

THERE'S A JUST-ORGANISED PROTEST TOMORROW THE 18TH OF OCTOBER OUTSIDE LEINSTER HOUSE ON KILDARE STREET AT 5PM

EVERYONE WHO CAN MAKE IT NEEDS TO GET DOWN AND CONDEMN THE GENOCIDE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.

ON SATURDAY THE 21ST OF OCTOBER AT 1PM THERE IS ANOTHER GATHERING AT THE GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE

STAND WITH PALESTINE AND STAND AGAINST GENOCIDE.

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[phantom-of-the-memes]

Since I’ve been making posts about American/ British entitlement towards Ireland, I thought I’d talk about this video here.

I am a student at this college. It’s a big tourist attraction for many reasons, but the main one being that the book of Kells is kept here. I am also from Kells itself, but Dublin having the book and not Kells is a whole other issue.

So this protest that’s been happening over the the past few weeks is in response to the college once again raising rents for student accommodation to astronomical rates. That being when rent in Dublin (and Ireland as a whole) is already unliveable. You’d find cheaper rent off student accommodation, but it’s hardly easy to find places like this. As well as this, the majority of the student accommodation isn’t even on campus to begin with. Most are about a 45 minute luas journey away. So what the fuck are you paying for?

This protest is necessary. It’s been a long time coming. Time and time again they prioritise tourists over us. Buildings are old and falling apart, equipment isn’t functional, accessibility is god awful. I know this because I am disabled and use a rollator, but I can’t even use it on campus most days because there’s simply no ramps/ elevators in some buildings.

In one of my lectures last week we were in one of the old buildings. We had a lot of content to cover, but of course the projector wasn’t working. The professor spent fourty minutes trying to get the computer/ projector to work, but to no avail. So we have a whole lecture to catch up on! All of this while I was looking out the window at this atrocity:

A new building for tourists! Yay!

They’ve been building new school buildings for years, but of course instead of finishing them, they’ll spend their time and money on the tourists. I’m not even having an exam in one of my modules because they told the professor that there simply isn’t enough room to host our class for the exam. And it would be “too expensive” to book a venue… it’s only a class of about thirty. He had written a whole exam and we were under the impression we’d have one, but now it’s just continuous assessment I guess!

So you have to understand why we’re not exactly jumping for joy for the tourists. There are hundreds on campus everyday, just generally being annoying and entitled. And yes DISCLAIMER; not all tourists, not all Americans/ British people, blah, blah. But from my experience, you do encounter some obnoxious people everyday.

So that’s why they blocked entrance to the book of Kells. That’s why it’s disgusting for the tourists to be arguing with them and demanding entrance. For once we just want our college to prioritise us! So yeah we will revoke your entitlement, because we are the ones who study here, we are the ones who have to LIVE here.

[femrodeeeeo]

#noexcuseforviolentmen

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Natasha O'brien

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Massive counter-protest in Dublin, Ireland, against fascist TERF "Posie Parker." Sept. 16, 2023

Video: https://twitter.com/DubTrans/status/1703047955161157809

#transrightsarehumanrights

Photos: Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin, Gay Community News, Miss Freda Wallace

[news4dzhozhar]

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Trinity College Dublin becomes the first European university to set up their solidarity encampment. The primary demands are for the University to divest from Israeli companies, and to release an unequivocal statement demanding ceasefire. The University authorities have fined the Students Union €214,000, citing a "loss of income" as a result of recent protests, as the university, particularly the Book of Kells, a popular tourist attraction located on the university campus is a major source of income for the university. The authorities have also locked the campus down, essentially putting the protestors and other residential students under house arrest. They have also closed all student facilities, including bathrooms.

Follow Trinity BDS campaign for updates.

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ɴᴇᴡ/ᴏʟᴅ • Domhnall in Dublin, attending Irish Equity's Solidarity Rally with SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America back in August.

📷 Mark Doyle (19.08.2023)

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1848 – The tricolour national flag of Ireland was presented to the public for the first time by Thomas Francis Meagher and the Young Ireland Party, in Dublin.

In 1848, Thomas Meagher and William Smith O’Brien went to France to study revolutionary events, and returned to Ireland with the new Flag of Ireland, a tricolour of green, white and orange made and given to them by French women sympathetic to the Irish cause. The acquisition of the flag is commemorated at the 1848 Flag Monument in the Irish parliament. This flag was first flown in public on 1…

[vyorei]

Here's the protests arranged for the weekend, show solidarity with Palestine

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[phantom-of-the-memes]

Palestine solidarity encampment win for Trinity College Dublin!!

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Here’s a link to my post explaining some of the background of the past week with Trinity’s union busting and refusal to cut ties with Israel:

[jassnahkholin]

Ireland will not sit down and watch while a country, a culture, and a people are slaughtered. The principle on which our free country was founded has no room for colonialism or apartheid. Genocide is occurring right before our eyes. It is our duty as human beings to do all we can to help the people of Palestine and to witness the atrocities being inflicted on them.

[translation: freedom for Palestine. ID in alt text.]

For other Irish people, the website www.ispc.ie has really great resources, protest times and locations, pre written emails to be sent to the Dáil, etc.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free🇵🇸

[fortissimeh]

From the river to the sea...

[nonchalantthoughtsonly]

Protests are happening in dublin, not because a 5 year old was stabbed to death, but because the stabber was an immigrant. i cant believe this