This evening.
At 6.30pm.
Outside the General Post Office on Dublin’s O’Connell Street.
A “direct action” event calling Take Back The City will take place, hosted by…
North Dublin Bay Housing Crisis Community, Blanchardstown Housing Action Committee, Dublin central housing action, Dublin Renters’ Union, Take Back Trinity, Brazilian Left Front, and Migrants and Ethnic-minorities for Reproductive Justice.
They say:
Let’s take back our homes!
Hundreds of thousands of tenants are being hit by unprecedented hikes in rent, evictions and poor housing conditions. Hundreds of thousands of people are stuck in family and extended relative’s homes, overcrowded accommodation and thousands are couch surfing and homeless.
As the housing struggle continues the landlords, developers and investors are sitting on empty homes and empty land; this is affecting us all, enough is enough!
The few in power have sat on their hands for too long as the many suffer. The will to make real, meaningful change in housing provision is absent and those ‘nice-on-paper’ policies, such as rent pressure zones, are not translating to reality. When your leaders lack leadership it’s time to take the reins; let’s take back our homes!
Dublin Central Housing Action (Facebook)
“… Migrants and Ethnic-minorities for Reproductive Justice”
*scratches head*
You have something to say about this?
I guess it just seemed like a strange that migrants and ethnic minorities needed their own pressure group for reproductive rights, instead of just joining the main one.
Maybe they are in a legal limbo.
I don’t know why they’ve formed their own group but I would assume it’s probably affiliated with wider groups. Maybe they found their specific situations were unrepresented by the larger groups and formed their own in order to amplify their voices that little bit more.
good points both
I approve of the actions of this movement to date. They’ve put up notices on many properties shaming the delinquent land-bank-hoarders.
I may go if I’m let.