Free Education for Everyone (FEE) calls for student block on ICTU march! (3 Viewers)

[Vin]

Please forward on to any secondary or college students.

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Free Education for Everyone (FEE), a student group fighting the reintroduction of fees and cutbacks in third level education, is calling on all secondary and third level students to join the ICTU National Demonstration this saturday to show solidarity with all workers facing pension levys, job losses and pay cuts.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), the umberalla group of 55 unions representing about 600,000 members in the Republic of Ireland, has called the February 21st protest the “first step in a rolling campaign of action” against the government’s proposed public sector pension levy.

FEE are calling on all students to meet at 2pm at the Jim Larkin statue and to then line O’Connell Street with banners and placards.

An injury to one is an injury to all!
No to third level fees! No to the pension levy!
Workers and Students unite to fight the cutbacks!


http://free-education.info/

 

[Cormcolash]

 

[Gambra]

Can I ask who are behind FEE? I was asked to go to a FEE protest on Monday here in UL but it just seemed another front for the Socialist Party (it's just the same 3 people down here..)

 

[Froog]

and how will colleges be paid for? more taxes i guess, either way you still pay for it, except with taxes, the whole country has to pay instead of your parents.

 

[Shorty]

and how will hospitals be paid for? more taxes i guess, either way you still pay for it, except with taxes, the whole country has to pay instead of your parents.

My parents don't pay for my hospital fees.

 

[wild_cat]

and how will colleges be paid for? more taxes i guess, either way you still pay for it, except with taxes, the whole country has to pay instead of your parents.

Majority of people I know would have to get a loan..... Not much parently involvement bar rent.

 

[Cryptid]

You'd need a much bigger loan if this goes through.

The grant will continue to cover fees for those who pass the means test, won't it? Maybe they should have an income limit of about 70k or 80k per household for a tuition fees only grant to make it easier for those not on mad salaries. If they did something like that, then I'd think it would be a good thing. But I'm sure they'll find some way of crucifying the lower and middle income families and give some sort of tax reliefs or other help to the wealthy. Tax reliefs are a joke. They really favour the higher paid. I'll stop ranting now.

 

[nooleen]

what an inappropriate acronym

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

maybe its post ironic?

 

[Vin]

Can I ask who are behind FEE? I was asked to go to a FEE protest on Monday here in UL but it just seemed another front for the Socialist Party (it's just the same 3 people down here..)

In Limerick, the SP are heavily involved. It's true. However, it's an unfair representation of the overall 'membership' of FEE.

In UCD for example, it's 50% politically affiliated students (WSM, Socialist Party, Sinn Fein, Labour Youth, 32CSM, Socialist Workers Party and independent anarchists) and 50% students who belong to no political party or ideology.

Hope that's of some help.

 

[Froog]

Majority of people I know would have to get a loan..... Not much parently involvement bar rent.

working class scum!

 

[broken arm]

universities are competitive businesses.

there needs to be another way to educate.

there, I said it.

 

[Gambra]

universities are competitive businesses.

there needs to be another way to educate.

there, I said it.

 

[wild_cat]

working class scum!

Great argument.

 

[nooleen]

'maybe tax reliefs favour the rich', think we've stumbled on something big here. someone call in the media.
also in breaking news, 'middle classes still all right for fees, rent, fromage de chevre.'

 

[robitusson]

Hmmm...the people voted in a populist government who said they'd cut services in exchange for lower taxes, 3 fucking times!!! ...and suddenly they change their mind and do a bit of protesting now. We got what we voted for. Tough tittie Ireland.

 

[nooleen]

I voted for Ming the Merciless, and I never signed up for this recession shit.

 

[pete]

i voted for joe higgins, but i'm not going on the ICTU march. i think that means i'm recession-neutral.

(my excuse is i'm sick)

 

[Cormcolash]

I voted for Ming the Merciless, and I never signed up for this recession shit.

I definitely would have voted for Ming if he'd been running in my constituency.

 

[nooleen]

Petty as it is, it's still the smuggest moment of my life that Ming got more votes than the labour candidate my dad was backing, telling me I was throwing my vote away on a joke candidate.