Come to a Solidarity event on Tuesday 8th December at 11am, the day before budget day, outside the Dáil on Kildare Street, Dublin.

Debt and Development Coalition Ireland are holding a Street Action on 8th December in solidarity with indebted people everywhere. While Brian Cowen prepares to hand over $1 billion of Irish tax payers money to the IMF, impoverished people globally and in Ireland are facing rapidly mounting debts.

By giving this money to the IMF, Brian Cowen will strengthen a very damaging institution and contribute to a new global debt crisis for the poorest people in the world. This proposed giveaway to the IMF is all the more shocking in the context of Ireland's huge cuts to the overseas development assistance budget this year. Join us in taking action to end Ireland's support for the IMF and call on Brian Cowen to support the cancellation of unjust debts for impoverished countries.

There will be music and testimonies from people from both countries of the Global South and from Ireland, who will talk about how debt impacts on their day to day lives.

You can also join in a photo shoot condemning Brian Cowen’s planned big give away to the IMF.

Government declares war on working people... Unite to fight back
Central Hotel, Exchequer St. 8.pm.

Speakers:

• John Kidd, Dublin fire fighter and 24/7 Alliance.
• Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit Alliance.
• Cllr Joan Collins, People Before Profit Alliance.

Local Public Sector Workers and supporters are meeting to organize resistance to massive pay cuts

Date: Thursday 10th December
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Grand Hotel Tralee

Public Sector Workers – Unite Now TO Fight the Slashing of Pay and Pensions

· It’s time to counter the anti-public sector propaganda of the Government.
· Join in a united protest and a determined and organised campaign against the cuts.
· Show how there is a better alternative to solving the economic crisis – Fair Taxation.
· Show our TDs how important the public service is in Kerry
· Show how these wage cuts will decimate the local economy.
· A 7% pay cut is the equivalent in one year alone of more than 28 days of action.
· The cut will be for every year of salary and then of pension .
· There will be much more cuts to come if we remain silent.

WE SIMPLY CANNOT AFFORD NOT TO TAKE ACTION.

For further information contact Martin O’Grady, Branch Chair, TUI (IT Tralee). E Mail: tui@ittralee.ie

Kerry Public Sector unions including TUI, INTO, ASTI, SIPTU, IMPACT, INO, PNA, PSEU, CPSU and others must NOW rally together.