Thank you to our good friends in Collective Ireland for sharing this with us. Stand Up Now. (roll on December 10th) Communicate. This government has all but declared war on the people of Ireland. This government does not act in a way beneficial to its citizens. We must now cease to support the current state of affairs. It is the only way forward. Object to the impositions of this government. Talk to each other. Use your voice as a community to determine the political direction you, as a community, wish to take. Organise yourselves. Focus local action on local issues. Insist on the attendance and participation of politicians. Make your elected representatives – those people for whom you have ensured employment – responsible and accountable. Put enough pressure on the individuals and the cracks will appear in the government façade. Divide them as they continue to fail to divide us. Use your politicians as a platform, all the while denying them the use of a platform. Make them serve. Communicate effectively and focus activity. Use your residents committees, your parish halls and your community groups. Talk. The ability to foster and maintain a community’s political identity will force, through communal power, real participation in decision making. Focus your political identity as a community on issues you feel need to be addressed. Whatever your road or street or estate, whatever your village or hinterland or town or suburb, turn it together into a community with a clear political will and vision. Years of austerity budgets have eroded our communities. The programme of austerity that was introduced to pay for a mess not of our making has not just been oppressive, its been divisive, turning worker against worker and neighbour against neighbour. The government have learned to keep us apart, but now, as a nation we must stand together. We should thank Irish Water for focusing our anger. We should thank Irish Water for giving us this chance to unite. Through the establishment of Irish Water, this government has made the mistake of allowing us an opportunity to organise as a nation. It will never happen again. As sole owners of the nation, we the people of Ireland have a duty to protect our country from this government and this attack. Use Irish Water as the first stone you throw back. Organise. Politicise. Together you will turn these first few raindrops of protest into a storm of resistance and you will win.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 19:47:11 +0000
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