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Across the generations we stand
Older people are suffering the ill effects of the cutbacks and they stand in solidarity with their children & grandchildren who are also suffering.
This is why the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament will proudly march alongside trade unions and other community groups before Budget 2013 on Saturday next to say “No to Austerity”. We are asking all our members around the country to walk alongside us with dignity & respect to show the Coalition government that we have had enough of the recession, enough of the cuts to income and enough of the threats to the travel pass. The last Budget saw a vicious cut to the means tested fuel allowance thus increasing fuel poverty.
So walk alongside us … but wrap up warm with good shoes and scarves and gloves. This time however we want you to wear different shades of grey to symbolise the many hits we’ve taken. But we are not without hope – wear a sprig of green as well to show that we still have hope. And what about some “Greys in Shades” – wear some sunglasses as well.
Lastly what about some placards? We’ll have some but we encourage you to make your own & bring them with you. Your own words are always best but here are some possible slogans you could have on your placards:
- We’ve paid for our Pensions
- For a proper health service
- Keep Older People Warm & Mobile
- Fair Pensions for all
- For dignity & respect
- For a better, fairer old age
- A Fairer Ireland for Older People
- HITS – Health, Income, Travel, Security
- Hit the bankers – Not the pensioners
- Bash Bankers – Not Pensioners
- We all stand together
- Hands off our Pensions
- We’ve paid for our pass
- No more austerity
- Enough is Enough
- No more cuts
- We’re all in it together
- Why not just shoot us?
- Never too old to suffer
- No Country for Old Men … or Old Women
ISCP against the HITS
ISCP shows solidarity across the generations
50 Greys in Shades
The Irish Senior Citizens Parliament urges all our members, friends and supporters to join us tomorrow, November 24, on the anti-austerity march & rally in Dublin.
We will meet at Cathal Brugha Street (just off O’Connell Street) at 12.45 pm. Look out for the ISCP banner.
We march in protest at the cuts and in support of investment and job creation. We march in solidarity with those of all ages affected by this recession. We march with dignity & respect.
Hints:
- Dress in grey and wear your shades. Add a hint of green.
- Wrap up well against the cold.
- Bring a banner if you have one.
- Make up and bring your placards.
MEETING POINT FOR OUR SUPPORTERS
Cathal Brugha Street (just off O’Connell Street) look out for our banner
Time: 12.45 pm
Theme for ISCP:
More than 50 Shades of Grey and Green
Bring your own poster or banner and remember “a picture paints a thousand words”.
So please use your wonderful imaginations to highlight YOUR burning issues
Remember also we are asking all our participants to dress in Shades of Grey with a sprig of Green.
Also to wear Sun Glasses (Shades!!)
Queries to 01 856 1243 or email info@seniors.ie.
Check our website http://81.92.193.133/~seniors and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Wrap up well and please join us.
“No To Austerity!”
The Irish Senior Citizens Parliament (ISCP) will be taking part in the anti-austerity march & rally being organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions on Saturday 24 November 2012.
We are calling on all older people from around the country and especially those in the Greater Dublin area to join us
said Máiréad Hayes, CEO of the ISCP.
We want our members and friends and families to march in protest at the cuts and in support of investment and job creation.
The Parliament is asking their members to dress in shades of grey with a sprig of green.
The grey of austerity must be offset with the green shoots of hope
continued Ms. Hayes.
“There are a wide variety of older people in Irish society and this will be reflected in the shades of grey we will wear on the march. Older people are working, retired and unemployed. They are able bodied and disabled. They are carers and they are being cared for. They are living alone or in families or in homes.
However we stand together in 2012, the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations, with all those suffering under the austerity budgets and those struggling to survive on the brink of poverty.
concluded Ms. Hayes.
Older people and their families are all too familiar with the effects of the cutbacks on the most vulnerable in Irish society.
Stop Flying Kites
Kite Flying & Pensioners
Scarcely 4 days after the Tanáiste warned about the dangers of “a season of kite flying and leaks in the run up to the Budget ’” we find Minister for State, Brian Hayes T.D. launching a divisive attack on older people”.
Mairead Hayes CEO of the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament said
it is very disappointing to read the comments attributed to Minister Hayes implying that older people have come through “this crash and still have their incomes intact.
Continuing she said that
Minister Hayes needs to take some time, sit down and brief himself about the cuts, reductions in services of all kinds and extra charges which have affected older people .
Continuing she said
He will find that the reality is much different to his perceptions.
It is doubly regrettable
she continued
that comments which could be seen to be divisive and lead to intergenerational strife are occurring in this the EUROPEAN YEAR FOR ACTIVE AGEING AND SOLIDARITY BETWEEN GENERATIONS 2012.
Concluding she said that
this matter is so serious that both the Tanáiste & Taoiseach should state publicly if the remarks by the junior Minister are representative of the views and depth of knowledge of the cabinet as a whole with regard to older people.
ENDS
Dublin City University(Dcu) Open Day Thursday 13th September Is For You
All senior citizens are invited to DCU Age Friendly exciting Initiative’s.
Its a Taste of DCU DAY for older people. The aim of this Taste of DCU DAY is to welcome you OUR SENIOR CITIZENS to our campus and to provide YOU with an opportunity to experience a variety of very exciting academic, sports, cultural and social activities which are currently on offer in our university.
Learn about the opportunities that will be available on campus beginning in October 2012. The Taste of DCU DAY will be a very enjoyable and exciting day which includes a tour of the sports centre, a tour of a science lab and a visit to the Helix theatre. YOU will have an opportunity to meet with DCU students and staff and to attend ‘An Introduction to Lecture’ on a variety of interesting modules on offer.
The event will begin in the School of Nursing at 9.00am and concludes in the Helix Theatre at 4.30pm.
Dont be put off if you cannot be there at 9am come along when you can. The day is free of charge for all participants, including lunch. Free car parking will also be available on the day.
Please see our brochure of the day’s events attached. We would appreciate if participants could fill out this online brochure and forward the details to us asap. There is also a contact phone number attached if participants would like to book by phone. Please tell your friends about this event.
Here is the online link: https://www4.dcu.ie/ovpli/herc/afu_taste.shtml
We look forward to meeting you on the day.
Dr Trudy Corrigan,
Amy Lucas and Evan Hollywood,
The DCU Age Friendly Group