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The call for action was put out by
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The Day of Action in Ireland was called by the Anti-Racist Campaign, Anti-Fascist Action and the Association of Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Services Industrial Professional Technical Union (Ireland's
largest union)
Quarter page article advertising the march in their monthly
newspaper, which goes to all their shop stewards and a lot of rank
& file members.
SIPTU Education Branch (1,700 manual, clerical and academic
members in Dublin)
Motion, proposed by WSM members, agreed at their annual general
meeting to bring the branch banner, and write to all shop stewards in
the branch encouraging them to request their members to take part in
the march.
Teachers Union Of Ireland (second level technical teachers)
Dublin
Post-Primary Branch agreed to bring their banner.
official endorsers of the day of action are:
African Refugee Network, Barbara Bergin (actress in Fair City), Laura Brennan (actress in Glenroe), Ciaran Cuffe (Green Party councillor), Supported by 'In Touch' (magazine of the INTO teachers union), Irish Refugee Council, Amnesty International, Irish Travellers Movement, 'Newsline' (paper of the SIPTU trade union), SIPTU Education Branch, Community Media Network, Cork Council of Trade Unions, Development Education for Youth, Dublin Council of Trade Unions, Galway One World Centre, Happy City Samba School, Inner City Organisations Network, Ireland-Algeria Support Group, Irish Mexico Group, Kilkenny Grass Roots, Mid-West Against Racism, Ogoni-Solidarity Ireland, Praxis, Sadhbh O'Neill (Green Party), SIPTU Education Branch, Scheme Workers Alliance, Socialist Party, Teachers Union of Ireland, Dublin Post-Primary Branch, Tullamore One World Centre, Waterford Traveller Interest Group, Organise-IWA, Workers Solidarity Movement
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"London ACF advertised picket in Time Out and Freedom. Have contacted 2 London Irish papers. Have contacted all London Anarchist groups about this. Have produced leaflets and placards
About 15 people turned out for the demo in London with people from the ACF, SolFed, Socialist Party (Militant not the SPGB) and even some unaligned."
"I am working on getting the word out to the San Francisco Irish community. Once I get the word out here, I will concentrate on the rest of the country. The IWW and WSA-IWA will be pulling together a demo on 4/25. I will let you know how it progresses."
Liam, San Francisco
Concerning the day of action:
"- We passed the appeal on to the IWA sections and to other leftist groups in Germany. We didn't receive any feedback, but we hope that they have done something about it.
The FAU local group in Bonn and the International Secretariat sent protest letters via e-mail to the concerned minister. We made a press release and we distributed leaflets in Irish (and other) Pubs (we will send some leftovers by snailmail). On Friday afternoon, a small group of four members of our local group went to the embassy, showed our banner and (because it's closed on Saturdays) and handed over our message of protest.
We made an information table on Saturday morning in the city with the banner concerning your action day and distributed the leaflets there as well.
Unfortunately no other leftwing groups in Bonn participated in our activities, which was very disappointing for us, particluarly that the antiracist groups showed no interest.
We will send a photo of the banner within the next couple of days. "
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