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Wednesday December 07, 2005 23:42 by Ireland From Below irelandfrombelow at yahoo dot ie
Growing Resentment Surfaces As 'Gentrification' Sets In This story detailing the way in which the "regeneration" of Ballymun in Dublin is turning out to be a free-for-all for private investors, property speculators, builders and landlords, at the expense of the local community is written by Mick Burke, a community activist from Ballymun. It is taken from the first issue of 'Ireland From Below', a non-profit, community newspaper written, produced and published by a voluntary collective which will report on community struggles all over the island of Ireland. Contact details for the paper are included at the end of the article.
At a series of meetings with tenants in the late 1990s, Dublin Corporation set out to persuade the people of Ballymun that demolition and rebuilding were the best – and only – options for the future of the area. A Dublin suburb with the population of Sligo was to be torn down while the people were still living there; at the same time a replacement town was to be built around them.
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Jump To Comment: 3 2 1I wouldn't be surprised if the council doesn't privatise the whole city while its at it! We know what its like here in Ballymun and we oppose privitisation.
In Dublin city centre, I see that Ireland From Below is available at Red Ink books, beside the Central Bank in Temple Bar, and Connolly Books, which is just North of the Millennium Bridge. Other places, too, I'm sure: these are just the ones I've noticed.
By the way, it's a brilliant publication.
Ireland from Below is a new monthly newspaper written by and for people involved in communities across Ireland who are struggling “for humanity, against neo-liberalism”.
We are struggling to develop crèches, environmental projects, social centres, radical education, community media, solidarity work local arts and a million other projects.
We are struggling to prevent community breakdown, to gain health, education and welfare services that should be basic rights, to prevent Irish involvement in war and torture, to stop the deaths of homeless people, and all the rest of “business as usual”.
We are not interested in obsessive chronicling of the trivia of state decision-making (with libel laws stopping discussion of how the actual decisions get taken) – but there’ll be plenty about how the rest of us challenge them.
We’re not interested in the disempowering details of just how bad things have got (as if they had to be that way) – but there’ll be plenty about how people are constructing different worlds.
We’re not interested in happy-clappy consumption pages (whether it’s celebrities, computers or classical music) – but there’ll be plenty of things people are doing for themselves.
The people doing Ireland from Below have learned what they know the hard way – in community projects, direct action camps, campaigning work, street activism, local meetings - outside the comfort zones of “journalists” who rely on state and corporate press offices for their information and read each other for their ideas.
We’re looking for people from other communities, other campaigns, other movements to bring what they know and join us in making a different kind of media from below, working alongside community media, Indymedia, activist newsletters and mailing lists.
If you think you’d like to work with us or want to find out more, there’s an email group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/community_struggles
If you’d like to contribute an article, or info we can turn into one, send it to irelandfrombelow@yahoo.ie.
Phone Ciara 086-3678501, Laurence
087-9851029, or Martina 087-6522033.
See you in the streets!
The front page of issue one of Ireland From Below