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| EU - ECB - IMF Troika members in Dublin |
WHO: OCCUPY DAME ST AND
OTHER ANTI-BAILOUT GROUPS
WHEN: 19th - 20th April, 2012
WHERE: Merrion Hotel - Dept. Finance
and environs, Dublin, Ireland.
Activists from Occupy Dame St. and other groups opposed to bank bailouts have begun a 48 hour protest campaign to dog the footsteps of the three EU-IMF-ECB 'Troika' members during their quarterly review of Ireland's austerity program in Dublin on the 19th - 20th April, 2012.
Our aim is to highlight the Troika's refusal to meet with the Irish people or media on this trip - apparently to avoid 'political sensitivities' ahead of the May 31st Irish vote on the so-called EU Fiscal Treaty.
This conveniently allows the Troika to avoid explaining their own internal split on policy - the IMF has recently indicated it knows Ireland's debt burden is unsustainable.
Their lack of engagement also insulates them from this vital feedback:
1) Ireland is sinking fast into dire domestic GNP collapse - despite our higher (export-led) GDP figures. Fiscal austerity has already failed in Ireland -as in Greece and Spain before.
2) As the recent rejection of the property tax farce has shown, the people of Ireland have had enough of being debt patsies who enable the loaning of more money to a busted and corrupted financial system --and then end up carrying the debt can.
We will be ensuring the Troika get these messages:
-NO BANK BAILOUTS- -END THE AUSTERITY-
-INVEST FOR JOBS- -CANCEL ODIOUS DEBTS-
Action Hashtag: #MeetTheTroika
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