Fw: Your January 2013 Claiming our Future Newsletter

 

 

From: Claiming Our Future

Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:54 PM

To: Thomas

Subject: Your January 2013 Claiming our Future Newsletter

 

Thomas You can take part in 'National Day of Action' or attend a workshop on 'Alternatives for Transformation' Claiming Our Future had a busy end to 2012. The Plan B working group was involved in the national budget debate, promoting our Plan B analysis. A Claiming Our Future Assembly was held in November. After this an expanded coordination group met twice (in December and January) to develop, refine and strengthen our work and organisation into 2013.  It was agreed that the Plan B, Income Inequality, Democracy and Economy for Society working groups would continue their work. Particular importance was given to taking new steps to improve our overall communication/ co-ordination and our use of I.T and social media, and to better enable local participation. An Invitation to Participate: Claiming Our Future is supporting the National Day of Action being organised by Congress on 9th February 2013. The focus for this National Day of Action is the issue of the unacceptable debt burden placed on the Irish people and the need for the ESM rescue fund to take on banking debt. The aim for the day is to send a strong message to the European Union on this issue. Marches and rallies will be held in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Sligo and Waterford. Details on the events are available on www.ictu.ie. We hope that you might be able to participate and to encourage others to do so. Download a letter from David Begg of Congress on the National Day of Action. This includes an invitation to a planning meeting on 25th January at 2pm in Congress.   Claiming Our Future is supporting the hosting a workshop on 'Alternatives for Transformation' with acclaimed academic Erik Olin Wright from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Erik Olin Wright will speak on 'Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias'. Workshops will allow participants to explore and build practical Irish alternatives across different areas including the finance, production, economic, care, social, democratic and environment sectors. The workshop will be held in the Iontas Building, NIRSA conference room, NUI Maynooth from 10am to 5pm on Saturday March 9th 2013. Download a preliminary notice for the event with further details.   Claiming our Future To find out more or to help  email info@claimingourfuture.ie Visit our website for more information on how you can get involved. Regards Claiming our Future Unsubscribe thomaschambers@eircom.net from this list | Forward to a friend | Update your profile You are receiving this email because you were a participant of the Oct 30th event, or have signed up to our mailing list on our website. You may also be recieving it if you signed the petition to save the minimum wage and asked for updates about it and other campaigns. This email is for the intended recipient only - under Data Protection guidelines we ask you to not forward this email to other individuals without their prior consent. If you would no longer like to recieve any emails from Claiming Our Future please click on unsubscribe above. Our mailing address is: Claiming our Future 44 Lower Gardiner Street Dublin, Dublin 01 Ireland Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2013 Claiming our Future All rights reserved.