Das Ereignis

Please join the demo for peace and neutrality in Dublin on Saturday June 14. It is organised by TOGETHER FOR NEUTRALITY - a recently formed meitheal of elected Oireachtas TDs and Senators, peace activist groups and civil society organisations, including DiEM25 in Ireland. The slogan for the demo will be ‘For Peace and Neutrality - Keep Ireland’s Triple Lock’. People from all corners of Ireland will come together to voice concerns about the Irish government’s plans to dismantle the Triple Lock.  ‘Hands off Irish neutrality’: Opposition parties join together to protest triple lock changes 

The Government is desperate to negate our Neutrality. Their  latest attempt is enacting legislation to undo the good name Ireland has had internationally for promoting peace in the world. Their intention is removal of the United Nations (UN) support for sending our troops abroad on agreed peace implementation missions . The Irish government should be fully respecting our UN peacekeepers, not undermining them, as other highly militarised States are doing. 

A horrific example of undermining the UN, is how the genocidal Israeli government, who are starving and exterminating the people of Palestine, have  openly demonstrated their hate for the UN and its humanitarian and peace missions. Not only have they banned UNRWA, but they have killed their staff, and are preventing them from delivering food and other vital humanitarian needs to Gaza. Let us not be accused of in any way following their playbook   

Ireland’s Triple Lock; 

The three necessary elements are; a vote by TDs - Cabinet agreement - UN General Assembly mandate, with a vote by the 193 Member States. The Triple Lock was agreed upon in order for the European Union’s Nice Treaty to be voted for by the Irish people in a second Referendum. Voters rejected it in the first Referendum because of concerns over erosion of Neutrality due to increased EU militarisation. Now the Government wants to reject that agreement made with the Irish electorate by casting the Triple Lock aside. Ireland protest: Yes to neutrality, no to militarisation - George Hill & Adrian MacFhearraigh 

They have been asked to hold a Plebiscite on the matter to let the people decide - but they are too scared to do so. Instead they are too keen to have us more connected to the Rearm Europe project and the ‘WIlling for War Coalition’ of Ursula von der Leyen, Starmer and Macron. More money is to be squandered on instruments and means of war -   when what we really need is housing, health and all the other vital services to care for people, place and planet

The Irish government seems intent on connecting us more with the infamous US military-industrial complex. Ireland's dependency on the US is already well established, and in recent years has entangled our country in increased trade links with Israel. This is currently rendering us as complicit in Israel's war crimes Ireland is Israel's second biggest trading partner — we need to look at why

Ireland’s deep involvement in US-Israeli trade, industry, and finance, puts us strategically positioned to bring about change. Tactical pressure points include US warplanes going through Shannon Airport, the sale of Israeli war bonds, the enactment of the Occupied Territories Bill in full, and the EU’s economic relationships with Israel. These facets will be combined with our efforts to Keep Ireland’s Triple Lock at the Together for Neutrality demo in Dublin on June 14. We can use this as  an opportunity to declare to the Irish Government and to the EU that significant measures imust be taken to free us from complicity in imperialist economic rivalries, wars, and genocides. 

Dublin - Saturday 14th June 2pm Garden of Remembrance