• Time: Tomorrow! - (October 8, 2011) from 2pm

• Location: Central Bank of Ireland, Dame Street

The time is well and truly here for the people of Ireland to liberate their kitchenware, make some noise and peacefully demand change, namely:
- For private banks to take responsibility for their own debts

OccupyDameStreet is one of dozens of sister occupations in the current movement initiated by Occupy Wall Street (occupywallst.org). This is a peoples initiative unaffiliated to any political parties. Like OWS, this is a "leaderless resistance movement" with people of many nationalities, backgrounds, genders and political persuasions. We will utilise tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, akin to scenes of peaceful resistance in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian Uprising - part of the wider Arab Spring.

Now is the time for the spirit of the revolt in Tahrir Square to spread to other major cities and financial districts around the world. It is the duty of those of us living in western capitalist states to take up the fight against the endlessly greedy bankers and political & financial elites who cause so many problems for not only people at home, but the entire world. Chris Hedges put it well in this quote, and it goes for all of us in the West, not just America:

• "There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave."

Our demand in Ireland is that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central Bank (ECB) stay out of our affairs. We do not want their influence or control. Our demand is that the private bank debt that has been socialised and burdened upon the population of the country who had nothing to do with it be lifted. We will not pay and let our children and grandchildren pay for this mess that private banks and bondholders have caused. It is their problem, not ours. Our demand is that the oil and gas reserves off our coast that were criminally handed away to private corporations be returned to the people. Our demand is for real, participatory democracy - where the people's interests come first, where the people decide what happens.

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Bring your pots, bring your pans, drums, bin lids, whatever you can find. Bring your friends, family and extended relations.

This gathering has no affiliations to any political parties or organisations.
It's time to make some noise.

Pots & Pans - Ireland: urge that all protest undertaken be peaceful and relaxed while also we seek from All who may attend any Pots & Pans events to Please Respect the following suggestions:

1. No political party or trade union banners
2. No violence
3. No alcohol or drugs

Síochana agus Saoirse daoibh go leir ~ Peace and Freedom to you all!