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November 29, 2010

100,000 Protest In Ireland Over EU/IMF Bailout
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European Union nations have signed off on a a proposed $113 billion
emergency loan for Ireland. The bailout was approved a day after an
estimated 100,000 people took to the streets of Dublin on Saturday to
oppose the plan to rescue Ireland’s banking sector. Irish trade unions
have announced plans to launched a campaign of civil disobedience in the
coming weeks.

Tom Coleman, Irish protester: "We don’t want to pay for private
business, private industry and corrupt government. And the people are
going to pay. And we are not happy, we don’t want the IMF [International
Monetary Fund] in here. The IMF created this situation and they are in
for money and they don’t care about the future, they don’t care about
Ireland."

Meanwhile in Britain, tens of thousands of students took the streets
last week to protest planned budget cuts.

Mark Bergfeld, student organizer: "We must say that the damage done by
thousands of young kids does not anywhere come close to the damage which
is being done by the Con-Dem government in this country. The Con-Dem
government in this country is decimating higher education, is decimating
the welfare state, and is imposing an austerity agenda. They have no
mandate to cut, and the broken futures, the broken futures of
generations to come is in no way compared to a few broken windows."



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