Pauline Power writes:
…my poem for the water charges protest to add to the others which I have found very inspiring. I marched against PAYE in the 1970s and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and today I am back on the streets. I would be grateful if you would share this around. I do not have a Facebook or twitter. I am 71 in January!
For The Day That’s In It
Now is the time to be counted
Our most precious resources change hands
Everyone watches the money go round
X marks the spot where it landsContract or not, they will crush you
Unless we all make the same stand
Sing out, all you brothers and sisters!
Everyone’s part of the bandFarmers and welders and till-girls
Old folks and bold folks and shams
Right left and centre, we all stand together
Sing out and we’ll take back our land!Hear the authorities tremble
In cop-shops where force was once planned
This time we’re there in our thousands
Politicians, your time is at hand!Out on the streets if you’re Irish!
Each boy girl and woman and man!
This is the day we seize freedom
Rise up and be part of the band!
You’re Irish and this is YOUR land!
(Pic: Sam Boal, Photocall Ireland)
Very nice.
I especially liked the sentiment of us all standing together.
Thank you Pauline.
You made me smile.
very nice thank you!
enroute to town now….a beautiful day for a powerful statement of intent
you didn’t get the weather you’d hoped for, did you Kenny? but you will get sunk in a storm soon enough, conniver!
do you think he’s reading this? :-)
GCHQ keep Inda informed
You marched against PAYE?
Why?
Because they want all the services and welfare payments like pensions, paid for out of thin air ?
In fairness, PAYE was ridiculously high at that period.
And its revenues covered the payment of water.
And PAYE will be ridiculously high again if water charges are abandoned because that’s where it will come from if these freeloaders get there way. Sickening how real civil rights movements are being trivialised by this lot on world human rights day.
Is there an app or something for the silent majority who support water charges that will strip all the anti water charges crap from web sites and social media ?
We have to fight poetry with poetry. I’m working on a pro-Sierra sonnet that should be a game-changer.
It’s an ode-off.
Where do we sign up ?
I hear they got a fencing company in to do the railings for the aul rally…
Siteserv wasn’t it :)
No really, anyone know?
Eventserv…same as.
Maybe Dept of De Fence?
what a load of wattle!
I blame D au’B.
Here you go;
http://tinyurl.com/opb78ha
Ah …but who gave them the aul fences hai!
Nice to see an Ode-age pensioner full of the fighting spirit :)
‘Marched against Ronald Reagan’
Why? Because he helped bring about the end of the Cold War? Or was it linked to the fact that he boosted his nations economy with rational economical policies that benefited all.
Wonder what you marched against a great 2 term president for? You achieved nothing, Reagan goes down as a great President.
Yes
Good ole Ronnie sure told them how to do Democarcy in El Salvador, Chile, Panama…fecking mope..
Funding genocide in Nicaragua maybe?
It’s the PAYE one I find strange. What did we do before PAYE? Did everyone have to get an accountant in to file their tax return?
It was a protest over PAYE being too high.
Whaddoo we want?
Time Travel!
When do we want it?
It’s irrelevant!
Great poem, good for you for protesting what you believe in
I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
Ah now! A good poem has often solved divisive complex problems. Maybe we should say a mass too?