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The real Mayday street party is
still on - April 2
The Government may have cancelled its 'Beautiful Night' concert in
O'Connell Street, but the real Mayday weekend street party is going
ahead.
Dublin Grassroots Network seeks
clarification on Mayday powers for police and army - April 20
Huge disruption is to be caused to Dublin by the EU ministers' Dublin
Castle photocall, which entails the closing of Dame Street, and the
Farmleigh banquet, for which Europe's largest public park is to be
sealed off by a rumoured seven miles of razor-wire, water-cannons,
soldiers and armed gardai.
Will gardai be allowed to shoot
protestors? - 21 April
Mayday protest organisers have called for clarification on police and
army powers for the Mayday weekend
Mayday organisers reject GRA
allegations - 21 April
The Dublin Grassroots Network, who are organising a weekend of events
this May Day to highlight "Fortress Europe", have sharply criticised
recent statements from Garda Representative Association (GRA) general
secretary, PJ Stone, as heightening tensions and criminalising the
right to protest.
Royston backs down over May Day
protests
Dublin's Lord Mayor Royston Brady has been forced to admit that the
May Day protests planned in Dublin are legitimate and that "every
citizen has a right to make a peaceful protest".
Mayday protests will not be
cancelled - organisers - April 22
Mayday protests events in Dublin will go ahead, organisers insisted
today (Thursday). They were responding to a garda decision to ban
protests on the weekend when Ireland hosts the EU summit.
Grassroots Network invites Dubliners
to join May Day events - April 24
Dublin Grassroots Network has called for the people of Dublin to join
in May Day parties and protests and make their voice heard in the
face of Garda attempts to prevent the events and unfounded scare
stories.
Bertie, gardai have lost the plot, say
protestors - April 26
Gardai and politicians have lost the plot completely and are saying
the first thing that comes into their heads
Government 'putting gun back into Irish
politics' - April 27
The Government is "putting the gun back into Irish politics" by
deploying armed gardai and soldiers to deal with May Day protests,
according to protest organisers.
May Day Protest Dress Rehearsal
- April 27
Come and see what is really planned for May Day in Dublin this
weekend.
Demonstrators challenge
anonymous smear campaign against right to protest - April
27
One of the main groups organising protests against Dublin's EU summit
in May has criticised an anonymous smear campaign aimed at
undermining the right to protest.
"All Aboard For May Day Mobilisation in
Dublin" - April 28
Cork activists of the Grassroots Network are on their way to Dublin
for the major mobilisation in the capital this weekend.
Arrests confirm pattern of garda
harassment - April 28
The arrests of three protestors in Dublin last night (Tuesday night)
have been branded by protest organisers as simply the latest in a
campaign of garda harassment in the run-up to next weekend's
protests.
May Day organisers condemn Polish
represssion - April 28
Dublin Grassroots Network, which is organising a Mayday weekend of
events for an alternative Europe, today condemned the repression of
activists campaigning against the World Economic Forum in Warsaw.
Dublin Grassroots: Saturday march
not cancelled - April 30
Dublin Grassroots Network reject in the strongest possible terms
allegations made in recent television news that our Saturday "Bring
the Noise" march has been "cancelled".
Organisers condemn banning of May Day
march - April 30
Dublin Grassroots Network, the group organising the "Bring the Noise"
march to Farmleigh House at 6 pm on Saturday evening, has condemned
Garda measures announced yesterday evening which amount to the
banning of the march
Banned march went ahead - May
2
We have shown that it is not so easy to take away democratic
freedoms. You can break people's bones. You can throw them in jail.
But they will still assemble. And they will not give up the right to
protest so easily.
Injured protesters were denied access
to hospital - May 3
The Dublin Grassroots Network has expressed concern at the
non-reporting of injures caused by the Garda attack on demonstrators
on the Navan road on Saturday evening.
Attempt to criminalise protest
overturned - May 5
Spokespeople for the Dublin Grassroots Network welcomed this
afternoon's High Court decision, which overturned the District
Court's refusal to grant bail to May Day protestors
Civil liberties were suspended for
"security operation" - May 7
Dublin Grassroots Network, the organisers of many of the May Day
protest events, today condemned the effective suspension of civil
liberties for the weekend.
Fortress Dublin? The
criminalisation of protest and the demonisation of dissent - May
7
This dossier is a very brief list of events, all of which can be
readily documented from obvious sources (media archives,
Indymedia).It consists of two parts: firstly a chronicle of recent
events giving rise to concern from the moment of the banning of the
Farmleigh march; secondly a dossier of "dirty tricks" which we
prepared before the banning of the march and released on Friday,
April 30th.
May day spokespeople resign en
masse - May 13
We volunteered to do a particular job. Now that job is done, our
mandates are over
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