The March for Choice rally stage, Merrion Square, Dublin, within the last hour.
(Thanks Jim Hartnett)
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‘Wankergate’: London March 21, 2012
Yes, the Household Charge has made the New York Times:
Among them [not paying the Household Charge] are Gerry McKeever, 56, and his wife, Annie, who moved to the Dublin satellite town of Kildare during the decade-long boom that began in the mid-1990s known as the Celtic Tiger era, and who say their home is now worth less than half of the purchase price. They have two young children, high mortgage payments, child care costs and increasing fuel bills for the 70-mile round-trip commute to work in the capital.
“Many people are sitting tight rather than actively going out protesting,” he said. “This is sullen, peasant discontent in the finest Irish tradition. This is the revolt of the graybeards.”
Perhaps most significant is the coincidence that on the same day the household tax is due, Irish taxpayers will have to pay $4 billion to make good on some of the monumental debts run up by the failed Anglo Irish Bank.
Growing Antitax Movement Shows Irish Stoicism Wearing Thin (Douglas Dalby, New York Times)
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Student teachers this afternoon demanding “equal pay for equal work” for all teachers. New teachers entering the profession will be starting at a salary 30 percent less than 18 months ago.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
It’s just that we do it in small numbers on different days.
Carlosfandango writes:
The Dail [just now]. Seems like it’s every day that there is a protest outside [there]. A LOT of Gardai there at the moment.
You have not truly fought the ‘Man’ until you have stood outside the Garden of Remembrance on a Saturday in February.
It’s obligatory, dude.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, had to be extracted from a restaurant near Parliament House as angry protesters banged on the glass.
Supporters of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra picketed the Lobby restaurant over comments by Mr Abbott this morning that the tent embassy should close.
As many as 200 gathered in front of the restaurant, banging on its glass walls and yelling “shame” and “racist”.
PM Dragged Away After Being Trapped By Protesters (The Age)