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Police Draw Batons on Bank Bailout protestors

category national | anti-capitalism | feature author Wednesday May 12, 2010 17:24author by Paula Geraghtyauthor email mspgeraghty at yahoo dot ie Report this post to the editors

Two thousand took to the street to protest at the bank bailout.

Anger at the devastation of Ireland in the name of bailing out the Banks was articulated at the Right To Work Campaign protest at the Dail.

This is a short video from when the first forty or so went to the gates to be joined shortly by hundreds more.

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Caption: Video Id: 11668031 Type: Vimeo
Video from the gates of the Daíl.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Beats RTE's CCTV footage     pete    Wed May 12, 2010 00:17 
   Thanks.     radio head    Wed May 12, 2010 00:18 
   Wrong title     Pat    Wed May 12, 2010 00:32 
   High Ranking Piggy     FSB!    Wed May 12, 2010 01:49 
   RTE played it down     Fred Johnston    Wed May 12, 2010 02:07 
   Curious     dub    Wed May 12, 2010 08:15 
   National Papers- Reports     Tara    Wed May 12, 2010 08:36 
   First step to Greece?     We the People    Wed May 12, 2010 08:45 
   Failed strategy     NC    Wed May 12, 2010 10:04 
 10   Stormin an empty Dail for symbolism?     Watching and annoyed    Wed May 12, 2010 10:18 
 11   Society of the Spectacle     eco joe    Wed May 12, 2010 10:18 
 12   bit o' both needed     krossie    Wed May 12, 2010 10:26 
 13   Checking facts     Fact Checker    Wed May 12, 2010 11:20 
 14   Numbers     Beancounter    Wed May 12, 2010 12:04 
 15   worrying aspect     pat c    Wed May 12, 2010 12:26 
 16   Accounts     D_D    Wed May 12, 2010 12:35 
 17   symbolism     krossie    Wed May 12, 2010 13:54 
 18   On Joe Duffy Now RTE Radio One     Joe Listen    Wed May 12, 2010 13:58 
 19   Waste of energy     Jackie Mason    Wed May 12, 2010 14:29 
 20   Inaccuracies in the RTE report (are we surprised?)     Rua    Wed May 12, 2010 14:36 
 21   god indy meeja is awake at any rate     krossie    Wed May 12, 2010 14:52 
 22   More video     reporter    Wed May 12, 2010 15:57 
 23   all dew respectah to the Greek comrades     krossie    Wed May 12, 2010 16:02 
 24   Good hustle     careful now    Wed May 12, 2010 16:03 
 25   facts     caoi    Wed May 12, 2010 16:31 
 26   demonise the protesters Fianna Fail tactics     old codger    Wed May 12, 2010 17:41 
 27   a few more vids and reviews of the goings on at the gate     Angry Irish    Wed May 12, 2010 20:50 
 28   more vids and another bloody picture     FB'er    Wed May 12, 2010 21:04 
 29   no arrests     Fergus    Wed May 12, 2010 21:27 
 30   NVDA, taking action v not... first actions.     less annoyed and still watching.    Wed May 12, 2010 22:06 
 31   Mhhhhhh.     Where are your balls?    Thu May 13, 2010 09:12 
 32   Dead black and white (and half blind) ideologies     WaA    Thu May 13, 2010 09:55 
 33   demo suggestion     Daithi37    Thu May 13, 2010 10:34 
 34   An Garda Siochana     a and not a    Thu May 13, 2010 11:06 
 35   Cops protecting premises...     WaA    Thu May 13, 2010 11:22 
 36   An Garda Siochana     a and not a    Thu May 13, 2010 11:55 
 37   Where we agree     WaA    Thu May 13, 2010 12:15 
 38   Marching is for everyone     Super8    Thu May 13, 2010 16:44 
 39   Shinners trying to kick off armed revolution? 1916 again?     Ghost of Tom Clarke    Thu May 13, 2010 18:44 
 40   Legality of batons to the skull ?     Shop Steward    Thu May 13, 2010 22:19 
 41   Find your own way     Greek anarchist    Fri May 14, 2010 09:56 
 42   Greek wisdom     D_D    Fri May 14, 2010 11:21 
 43   Simply don't harry up     Greek anarchist    Fri May 14, 2010 12:11 
 44   agreed     krossie    Fri May 14, 2010 12:18 
 45   Yes, of course, but...     D_D    Fri May 14, 2010 12:44 
 46   greek anarchist     another    Fri May 14, 2010 16:47 
 47   @D_D - PBPA - individual and other     Greek anarchist    Fri May 14, 2010 18:12 
 48   "Leaders" on TV3     tv on the web    Fri May 14, 2010 19:12 
 49   SWP?     Confused    Fri May 14, 2010 20:22 
 50   Missed Opportunity     Rise Up    Sat May 15, 2010 11:27 
 51   Eye Witness     Michael Gallagher    Sat May 15, 2010 13:29 
 52   An infantile disorder.     Baggie    Sun May 16, 2010 12:26 
 53   Baggie     Celia S    Sun May 16, 2010 12:38 
 54   Symbolic glory at the expense of real change     Patrick    Sun May 16, 2010 14:48 
 55   ...and then what?     southern comfort    Mon May 17, 2010 20:22 
 56   INDO - So you think you want a revolution?     linker    Mon May 17, 2010 20:55 
 57   Protest at the DAIL! on FACEBOOK - Right to work Ireland     FB'er    Mon May 17, 2010 21:03 
 58   sometimes spontaeous events happen     protester    Mon May 17, 2010 22:20 
 59   fruitless exercise     Staying at home this time    Tue May 18, 2010 16:01 
 60   Jeez     Witchfinder General    Tue May 18, 2010 16:51 
 61   Honesty important     Balthazar    Thu May 20, 2010 15:05 
 62   Here we go again...     The Vigilant One    Thu May 20, 2010 15:51 
 63   "Cop brutality" girls on Joe Duffy show today     arty EEEEEEEEEE    Thu May 20, 2010 16:26 
 64   Anarchists disagree     Balthazar    Thu May 20, 2010 23:37 
 65   missed uppertunity     missed oppertunity    Fri May 21, 2010 10:10 
 66   To act or not to act     rianorr    Fri May 21, 2010 12:25 
 67   In support of Building Social Movements     Anonono    Tue May 25, 2010 09:19 
 68   Dwindle     Ciaran P Alan    Wed May 26, 2010 12:50 
 69   Very good article in Guardian - The victims of Ireland's economic collapse     People of Europe rise up    Wed May 26, 2010 15:40 


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