Got this in an email. It looked interesting enough until I checked out their ghastly website: http://www.people-before-profit.org/ The Indymedia to normals ratio will probably be quite high too. Maybe there’ll be classes on how to use a video camera for the Shell to Sea people? 🙂
Time for a real left alternative – Public Conference
Speakers Include:
Vincent McGrath (Shell to Sea/Rossport 5)
Catherine Connolly (Galway City Cllr),
Joan Collins (Indp. Cllr),
Eamonn McCann (Raytheon 9, Journalist)
Catherine Murphy (Indp. TD)
Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit),
Prof Kathleen Lynch (UCD),
Carmel McKenna,
Dr. Abdullah Sayed,
Ailbhe Smyth,
Kieran Allen,
Rory Hearne
When: Fri 24th & Sat 25th Nov.
Where: Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin 2
Conference Registration: Waged €5 Unwaged €2
This conference is bringing together individuals, groups, political organisations, campaigns, and unions who want to create an Ireland and a world based on what people need rather than the needs of corporations. Come along to discuss and listen to issues such as war, globalisation, privatisation of public services and the creation of alternatives. We believe a radical alternative to the establishment political parties is necessary; one that represents working people and all those currently alienated by the consensus politics that prioritises the needs of corporations, developers, and the wealthy elite over the needs of workers, local communities and ordinary people.
Timetable
Friday Nov. 24th:
6pm Education & Privatisation for Profit – the dangers for public education
Prof. Kathleen Lynch (UCD), Niall Smyth (Campaign for Commercial Free Education), Dr. David Carey, Froebel College, Blackrock, Coordinator of Special Education and Programme Development at the Froebel College of Education
7.30pm War, globalisation and Ireland
Dr Abdullah Sayed (Irish-Lebanese Community), Richard Boyd Barrett (Chair, Irish Anti War Movement & PBPA Candidate Dun Laoghaire), Ailbhe Smyth (UCD), Eamon McCann (Journalist & Raytheon 9)
Saturday November 25th:
10.30am Privatisation & neoliberalism: the future for our public services?
Catherine Murphy (Indp TD), Catherine Connolly (Cllr. Galway), Kieran Allen (UCD)
12pm People power and strategies of resistance
Vincent Mcgrath (Rossport 5), Frances Corr (Combined Residents Against Incineration), Rory Hearne (People Before Profit Alliance)
2.30pm People before profit: time for a new left alternative
Joan Collins (Indp Cllr), Carmel Mckenna (People Before Profit Alliance Candidate Wicklow), Richard Boyd Barrett, Catherine Connolly
Org. by People Before Profit Alliance/Davitt League Contact 086 1523542/086 0566290
www.people-before-profit.org
“Its aim is to reverse neo-liberal policies ”
Why does everyone hate us liberals sitting in the centre? Can’t they got for right wing conservative types as well?
“Why does everyone hate us liberals sitting in the centre? Can’t they got for right wing conservative types as well?”
Neo-liberalism doesn’t refer to liberal social stances, it refers to the rejuvenation of classical laissez faire 19th century economic liberalism as applied by the international financial institutions.
Secondly, this conference is a front for the SWP. It is nothing to do with indymedia (the SWP are hostile to indymedia). The reference to indymedia people versus normals is symptomatic of a closed mind and a willingness to accept peurile cliches over reality.
classical laissez faire 19th century economic liberalism
Yeah, and that worked out so well, first time around /sarcasm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Potato_Famine_(1845–1849)
Secondly, this conference is a front for the SWP. It is nothing to do with indymedia (the SWP are hostile to indymedia). The reference to indymedia people versus normals is symptomatic of a closed mind and a willingness to accept peurile cliches over reality.
Both very true.