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How exactly can our campaign against the inhumanity of direct provision be described as far right?
The media, the political elite and their state apparatus are desperate to turn this into a debate about race or a debate...
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between left or right. That's how they will split the community and the people of Ireland to push their flawed political agenda against the will of the people.
It's not about any of those things.
If you study the origins of the human race all human....
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beings came from the same place.
We all deserve to be treated with equal dignity and respect.
This is a campaign for social justice. Building a direct provision centre where up to 300 people are holed up in ghetto conditions on the edge of our town...
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is a social injustice for the asylum seekers and also the people of Oughterard. How have they managed to find millions of euro to secretly build this centre whilst neglecting the local residents' basic services such as social housing, the safety footbridge...
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for the kids and repairs to the N59. It's because they can make money out of the asylum seekers as they have made it into big business. This is human trafficking but at government level. This is a modern day headage scheme for people. The exploitation of...
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poor unfortunates.
This is a campaign for democracy. The village voted 98 per cent in a ballot against the direct provision centre. We will not have it forced upon us against our will. There was no consultation process. If someone wants to build an...
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extension to their house they have to go for planning. They have to consult the community. Yet someone can come to a village and convert a hotel to house 300 asylum seekers in a village with 1300 people and they don't have to tell anyone.
It's a campaign...
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for human rights. All human beings deserve to be treated with the same dignity and respect. It's not right in 2019 to put 5 single men sleeping together in a single room in Dickensian conditions so they can be sacrificed at the altar of profit and...
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and corporate greed. We believe asylum seekers should be integrated properly into the community. In Oughterard, Galway and Connemara we have always welcomed people from all races, religions, colours and creeds. We do this in our own sensitive and balanced...
way. It's also a campaign against big business hijacking the big social issues of our day to turn them into profit making machines to benefit a small number of individuals. Ask yourself who really benefits from the direct provision system. It's a handful of business...
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people and it's a handful of people in the department of justice that decide on that. This raises alarm bells and needs to be investigated further. The ideal system should be one that is best for the people of Ireland whom the politicians are meant to serve...