the Irish are channeling the Icelanders

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http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/14584


Irish protesters warn of another Iceland


More than 120,000 workers surrounded the Dail, or Irish Parliament, to protest against bail-outs for wealthy bankers, soaring unemployment and the Fianna Fail government's attempts to force public-sector workers to take a pay cut.

Wielding placards denouncing "corporate swindlers" and "banking cartels," protesters - including police officers, hospital workers and teachers - closed down the capital for an entire day in what one demonstrator described as "a lesson learnt from Iceland."

Union-organised protests forced the Icelandic government to fall in January and Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) leader David Begg said that the Dublin demonstration was "just the first step" in a similar campaign to bring their own bankers and government to account.

"There is anger, because everybody knows that this crisis is not our fault, that a business elite has destroyed our economy and has as yet to be made accountable for it," Mr Begg told the huge rally at Merrion Square in the heart of Dublin.

And he dismissed Taoiseach Brian Cowan's assertion that "painful" public-sector cuts were "essential" to deal with the crisis.

"There is only one action that will correct the damage that has been done and that is to get rid of all those who have committed this economic treason," declared Mr Begg.

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Trade Unions Against the European Union Constitution spokesman Brian Denny also praised the demonstrators for resisting the Irish government's "attempts to make them pay for the crisis.

"It's not the workers, but the obsession with privatisation enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty that the Irish government supports that has helped cause the crisis," he emphasised.
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yes, let the Irish women run things and get the men's mess cleaned up.

which is what Iclandic women are doing.

isn't it surprising that two small countries are taking that jump over the line into change?

[Viking12]

1. But Ireland only taxes corporations at 11%, so we should admire and emualte them.

Signed,

Any RW Nutjob