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M30: Make Indymedia The Source For Struggle

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | feature author Monday March 23, 2009 22:04author by 1 of imc - Indymedia Ireland Report this post to the editors

Your Reports, Your Pickets, Your Photos, Your Media.

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Indymedia: Your Source For News On M30.
Potentially, thousands of workers will take to the streets of the country next Monday. Indymedia and DCTV are pooling resources to cover the day and are calling for you, the readership, to contribute your reports, photographs and videos to compile an accurate grassroots account of what could be a significant date in this latest round of the struggle for workers’ rights and social justice.

March 30, next Monday, has been named by ICTU as the day the public sector unions will close up shop and shut the country down, in protest against the imposition of the ‘pensions levy’ and the failure to honour recent pay agreements. However, private sector workers are also looking for an occasion to vent their anger and it is likely that the one-day shut down will receive some significant support from this quarter too.

Several affiliated unions have successfully balloted their members to support a walk out; the country's largest craft union the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union is to serve notice to the government and employers today. Meanwhile IMPACT, Ireland's largest public-sector trade union, has voted not to take part in M30. Sixty-five per cent of the membership voted to take part in the demonstration, however a 66% majority is needed to carry industrial action. The union's executive will meet tomorrow to consider the options.

Indymedia’s coverage of the run-up to the day begins with a feature article on this morning’s front page, focusing on the rejection by Dublin Bus workers of the Labour Relation Commission’s proposals. As the week unfolds, Indymedia and DCTV will be reporting it on the web and on Channel 802 on the Digital NTL network.

As well as looking for your contributions, we’ll be interviewing TU activists through the week and featurising a contribution by economist Michael Taft on tactics. To encourage debate, we’ll be inviting specific contributions from organisations such as WSM, People Before Profit, Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Sinn Féin, Irish Socialist Network and the Labour Party before the end of the week. More importantly, we’ll be providing space to air discussions on tactics as they stand and ways in which the struggle can be brought forward. We’re inviting all workers, Trade Unionists and anyone pissed off or affected by cuts in our Public Services to get involved in this debate and to tell everyone how they are resisting the levy. We’re relaxing some of our editorial guidelines to permit the airing of more robust opinions. We will continue to deny space for fascist, sexist or racist opinions and will hide posts which descend to personal abuse.

On M30 itself members of the editorial collective will compile reports from around the country as they come in, providing both a valuable archive and the necessary space denied by the mainstream media to discuss the way this crisis is developing on national and international fronts. This cannot be done without your enthusiasm and your willingness to get your point across.

We’re calling out for reports from around the country on the day itself in any form and will have a dedicated army of editorial daleks taking your texts, emails, posts to the newswire and video footage.

In addition, we’re inviting interested parties to get in touch with the collective and volunteer editorial or other skills to the melting pot.

So, don’t hate the media, be the media!

Time for a general strike?
Time for a general strike?

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   TEEU to serve strike notice on main employer bodies today     1 of imc    Mon Mar 23, 2009 14:43 
   ASTI Serve Strike Notice     Mark C    Mon Mar 23, 2009 16:31 
   Dublin college staff vote to join strike     Alan MacSimoin    Mon Mar 23, 2009 22:56 
   Taking Sides.     Non Striker    Mon Mar 23, 2009 23:04 
   That's fair enough non-striker...     1 of imc    Mon Mar 23, 2009 23:12 
   Question.     Puzzled    Mon Mar 23, 2009 23:21 
   Non Striker/Taxpayer./Puzzled     Private Sector Head    Tue Mar 24, 2009 02:02 
   Statement from ASTI President     Mark C    Tue Mar 24, 2009 08:25 
   @ Taxpayer     Mark C    Tue Mar 24, 2009 08:28 
 10   Strikes not the answer!!!!!!     Kevin T. Walsh    Tue Mar 24, 2009 08:51 
 11   National Public Service Alliance Meeting     Teachers United    Tue Mar 24, 2009 09:12 
 12   Meanwhile in Sligo...     éirígí PRO    Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:52 
 13   Counterproductive strike     Rational Ecologist    Tue Mar 24, 2009 13:02 
 14   Poster for the Strike - Please Distribute     Mark C    Tue Mar 24, 2009 18:23 
 15   Why strike? The three steps to revolution     chuptzah    Wed Mar 25, 2009 08:27 
 16   Useless Sabre Rattling.     Communist    Wed Mar 25, 2009 09:53 
 17   Benchmark Down.     Signing On.    Wed Mar 25, 2009 09:59 
 18   Less than €25k     Statistician.    Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:13 
 19   Statistician go back to school     Tut tut tut    Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:09 
 20   Others     Séamus    Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:24 
 21   Expecting That     Statistician.    Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:38 
 22   What about the CPI and éirígí?     1 of imc    Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:41 
 23   Technician     Non-Statistician.    Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:41 
 24   Wage     Jerry Cornelius    Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:47 
 25   Average Industrial Myth.     Statistician    Wed Mar 25, 2009 13:03 
 26   Statistician divide and rule     Tut Tut Tut    Wed Mar 25, 2009 13:10 
 27   Don't Exist.     Dell Worker.    Wed Mar 25, 2009 13:14 
 28   When not If.     Accountant    Wed Mar 25, 2009 13:32 
 29   ICTU defers National Strike     A.R    Wed Mar 25, 2009 13:37 
 30   Broke     Jerry Corneliud    Wed Mar 25, 2009 13:46 
 31   The mother of all distractions     Topper    Wed Mar 25, 2009 13:46 
 32   Feedback     blacbloc    Wed Mar 25, 2009 15:51 
 33   A mayday to remember is needed more than ever     disgusted there is no strike    Wed Mar 25, 2009 23:24 
 34   Not Einsteins.     Statistician    Thu Mar 26, 2009 08:08 
 35   Lost The Plot     Accountant    Thu Mar 26, 2009 08:28 
 36   Make the rich pay     Jerry Cornelius    Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:01 
 37   The heavy levy     Rational Ecologist    Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:19 
 38   Those "assets" are history.     Accountant.    Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:23 
 39   No     Jerry Cornelius    Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:28 
 40   To Jerry     Rational Ecologist    Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:54 
 41   RA     Jerry    Thu Mar 26, 2009 13:04 
 42   Hit The Rich.     Accountant    Thu Mar 26, 2009 13:24 
 43   Hit The Rich     JC    Thu Mar 26, 2009 14:21 
 44   Ireland is a Basket Case.     Accountant    Thu Mar 26, 2009 16:06 
 45   Accountant     Jerry Cornelius    Thu Mar 26, 2009 16:11 
 46   Believe it or Not.     Accountant.    Thu Mar 26, 2009 16:30 
 47   Accountant     JC    Thu Mar 26, 2009 16:38 
 48   Rich Can't do it.     Accountant    Thu Mar 26, 2009 20:49 
 49   Ireland is Better.     Londoner    Thu Mar 26, 2009 21:39 
 50   first they came for my factory....     old timer    Thu Mar 26, 2009 23:33 
 51   Poor Ireland     Accountant    Thu Mar 26, 2009 23:47 
 52   Oh Really!     Jerry Cornelius.    Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:19 
 53   Wealth:Just what is it?     Rational Ecologist    Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:22 
 54   Delaying the Tsunami.     Accountant.    Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:50 
 55   Looming Abyss.     Taxpayer    Fri Mar 27, 2009 13:12 
 56   Accountant     Jerry    Fri Mar 27, 2009 13:55 
 57   The Real Abyss     Jerry Cornelius    Fri Mar 27, 2009 14:02 


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