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Household Tax – name a date for protests
Campaign Against Household and Water Tax public meetings held this week in Waterford (700), Carlow (400) and elsewhere clearly show a growing mood of angry opposition to the Government's household tax.
Campaign rejects government scaremongering over house tax fines
The Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes (CAHWT) has condemned as “pure scaremongering” claims by the Minister for Justice that fines for non-payment of the household tax could be taken from people’s pay.
There must be a referendum on the Austerity Treaty
Usually it takes some years for a new government to develop a haughty arrogance toward the people who put it in power. With the current Fine Gael/ Labour Coalition this time span has been shortened to less than one year, something to do no doubt, with its huge majority of sixty in the Dáil.
Stop SOPA Ireland
In mid-January, over seven million people in the United States contacted members of the Congress to show their opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Both pieces of legislation proposed to give sweeping powers to the Courts to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to immediately block access to particular websites at the behest of big business. But as a result of the mass opposition shown to SOPA and PIPA, both laws have been temporarily defeated and put on hold.
Yesterday’s Irish Independent article amounts to incitement to hatred
Socialist Party TDs have referred to the Irish Independent's front page article yesterday, 1st of February as 'tantamount to incitement to hatred.'
Austerity Treaty is recipe for disaster across Europe
Referendum must be held. People should decline invitation to join 'Austerity Club'
MEP demands referendum on Fiscal Treaty following poll
Government cannot ignore public’s demand for referendum
Political and legal obligation to hold referendum
Phil Hogan Confronted in Limerick
Household Tax is Highway Robbery
Minister Phil Hogan visited Limerick last Friday, and was confronted by a masked robber who exclaimed: "Stand and Deliver: Household Tax, Highway Robbery!" The protest, organised by the Limerick branch of the Campaign Against Household & Water Taxes got great media coverage locally and nationally, and ensured Hogan's didn't go unchallenged on his trip to Limerick.
Build mass non-registration by St Patrick’s Day
The Irish Independent reported over Christmas that the government are planning a mass state-wide leaflet drop in early February encouraging people to register for the household tax and threatening them with dire consequences if they fail to do so.
Demand a referendum – No to the austerity treaty
A new international treaty is currently being negotiated by the leaders of the EU. This treaty, currently called the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union, is a treaty to effectively institutionalise austerity across the European Union.
