A World in Crisis: Seizing the Opportunity for Radical Change

dublin | miscellaneous | event notice Tuesday March 10, 2009 17:14 by Nessa Ni Chasaide - Debt and Development Coalition Ireland nessa at debtireland dot org Debt and Development Coalition Ireland, Unit F5, Spade Enterprise Centre, North King St, Dublin 7 01 6174835

'A World in Crisis: Seizing the Opportunity for Radical Change'
Africa Centre, 9c Abbey Street Lower (Methodist Church Building), Dublin 1
Wednesday, March 18th, 6.30pm

You are invited to a public meeting exploring the massive and inter-linked crises our world is currently experiencing and to discuss opportunities for action and radical change.

The meeting is hosted by the Bloom Movement (Africa Centre, Comhlámh, Debt and Development Coalition Ireland, Latin America Solidarity Centre) and the Seomra Spraoi Collective.

As people in Ireland face job losses, a pension levy and public services cutbacks, people of the Global South are facing an even more disastrous future as the financial and climate crises hit them hardest. At the same time, these crises present us with possibly the rarest moment in our lifetimes to work for real change to save our planet and our societies.

The meeting will explore the connections between the many crises being experienced by the most vulnerable people in the world and what we can do to address them. Topics for discussion will include:

- Examining the causes of the financial crisis;
- Facing up to the climate crisis
- The role of tax injustice in the crisis
- The financial crisis and the militarisation of our world
- Feminist perspectives on the crises

Speakers will include:

Chekov Feeney - Workers Solidarity Movement
Oisin Coghlan - Friends of the Earth Ireland
Nessa Ni Chasaide - Debt and Development Coalition Ireland

Other speakers to be announced shortly.

The event will also take the opportunity to discuss a national day of action for justice on 1st April:

'Financial Fools Day: The Banks have taken our money, now let's demand it back' ...........

.......On the day before the G20 meeting in London...... Come down to the Bank of Ireland and AIB on College Green, at lunchtime on April 1st to ask them for your money back. Lets give them a queue to remember. Reclaim college Green. Dress up as financial fools! Show them how foolish they are. A Fools Party at the Bank!

www.africacentre.ie, www.debtireland.org; www.comhlamh.org, www.lasc.ie, www. seomraspaoi.org.