The Unmanageables

One wet rainy afternoon in Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty....

The Unmanageables

Ceilidh At The Crossroads..

The Unmanageables 'Operation Red Petticoats' invite you

to a ceilidh at the crossroads

Date: Monday the first of May at 2pm.

Venue: Ballsbridge: The Crossroads at the De Valera monument and the U.S Embassy.

Bring your dancing shoes, (red petticoat optional)

The Unmanageables is a broad coalition of activists from groups including; Shell to Sea, Residents Against Racism, Street Seen, Cosantoiri Siochana, IAWM, Dublin Catholic Workers and Save Tara campaigns.

Tea afterwards in Herbert Park, 4pm.

Children especially welcome for the day.

The red petticoat is a feminine symbol of solidarity with victims of Dept of Justice policy on deportation, especially victims of female genital mutilation. Solidarity with all workers, asylum seekers and a symbol of ongoing resistance to the victims of Irish collusion in an illegal war in Iraq.

Unmanageables in the Press...

Campaign groups organise counter demonstrations

By Fiona Gartland

Parade protest: A small protest group calling itself "The Unmanageables" and dressed as women from the 1916 Rising held a demonstration on O'Connell Bridge during yesterday's parade.

Handing out copies of the Proclamation, they said their main aim was to assert Ireland's "right to national freedom and sovereignty", as declared by the leaders of the first government.

The group also handed out badges with black shamrocks to symbolise mourning for those who died "as a result of Irish collaboration in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars".

Glenda Cimino, dressed as republican trade unionist Helena Maloney, said the group was linking the Proclamation to current social issues and highlighting areas where work needed to be done. She said they opposed US military planes landing in Shannon, and the road being built "through Tara" and wanted to highlight the role of women as a peaceful force.

An alternative parade, to be held at noon today outside the GPO, has been organised by Afri, an Irish group that promotes human rights, peace and justice.

Focusing on the condition of the health service, the event will feature a patient on a hospital trolley being pushed past the GPO. Well-known faces who are expected to take part include playwright Donal O'Kelly, actress Sorcha Fox and poet Theo Dorgan. Protest co-ordinator Joe Murray said the small group would be in stark contrast to yesterday's display of military strength.

"In a time of a booming economy, we have a dying health system where people are forced to endure appalling conditions. Are guns and tanks more important than hospital beds and school desks?" he asked.

Irish Times 17 April

The Unmanageables: Easter Sunday Morning

An alliance of contemporary women activists from a broad coaition of campaigning groups, Anti-War, including Cosantoiri Siochana, Dublin Catholic Worker group, Residents Against Racism, Save Tara, Shell to Sea and Revolt Video came together to honour the Women of 1916, who have been ignored by the State's commerorations and the Military Parade.

The contemporary activist each chose a woman activist from the 1916 era as an inspiration and are marching from Christchurch to O Connell Bridge on the morning of 16th April. The protest was in costume and the women activists carried banners relating their contemporary activism to the first two paragraphs of the Proclamation which in substance has been ignored and denigrated by the Government. They also wore and distibuted Black Shamrocks which symbolise Irish State Collusion in rendition flights and loss of our neutrality will be distributed on the day.This protest is a non-violent direct action and will be a short march, followed by banner drops and leafletting.Assembled at 11am @ Christchurch Sunday April 16th.

Pictures by Revolt Video (c)