Limerick Campaign Ups the Ante
The Campaign Against the Household & Water Taxes is upping the ante this week with public meetings in every community in Limerick City, and meetings covering the County too. Following on from the hugely successful launch of the campaign in the Clarion Hotel two weeks ago, which saw 400 people turn out to get involved in the campaign, up to 2,000 people are expected to attend these meetings, which are being organised to build for a large day of protests in Limerick and across the country on Saturday February 25th.
This week the government will also be stepping up it’s campaign to get people to register and pay the new Household Tax, spending hundreds of thousands of euro printing and distributing a booklet on the tax to every house in the country. In response, the non-payment campaign is also mass distributing their response leaflet, as well as organizing a series of public meetings and a day of protest where people will be encouraged to ‘bin the booklet’ on mass to “show the government they won’t be intimidated”.
According to campaign spokesperson, Joe Harrington, there is huge support for the non-payment campaign: “It has been overwhelming, half way to the governments deadline they’ve only just crossed the 5% mark in terms of the numebrs registering. They are worried, that’s why they’ve published this leaflet, and tried to sow confusion on the Septic Tank scandal.
“The government booklet claims this tax is to ‘fund your local services’. It is nothing of the sort. It is a bail out tax, pure and simple, and is simply funding the bondholders. Even if everyone paid this tax, it would take 8 years of it before we paid the cost of one Anglo Irish Bond, which the government paid off on January 25th. In fact, local services are being savagely cut.”
“We’re encouraging everyone to get out to their local campaign public meeting, hear what the campaign has to say, ask your questions and if we convince you then join the campaign. If you can’t make the meeting, then call the LoCall hotline on 1890 98 98 00, or check out the website at www.nohouseholdtax.org. Help us distribute our response leaflet in your area, and join the nationwide day of protests on Saturday 25th of February where we will give people the chance to come out and bin the booklet en mass.”
Meetings (full details available via the ‘Events’ tab at the top of this page):
- Woodland House Hotel, Adare, 8pm Thursday February 16th
- Castle Oaks House Hotel, Castleconnell, 8pm Friday February 17th
- Garryowen FC, Dooradoyle Road, 1pm Saturday February 18th
- Community Hall, Cappamore, 3pm Sunday February 19th
- Woodfield House Hotel, Ennis Road, 8pm Monday February 20th
- Janesboro FC, Colbert Ave, 8pm Wednesday February 22nd
- St Mary’s RFC, Corbally, 8pm Wednesday February 22nd
- Garryowen, Castletroy and West Limerick meeting details still to be confirmed
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