#Occupy Dame Street Enters its “Jazz Hands” Phase - Nice
OccupyDameStreet website with link to the Livestream, which is worth checking when its up.
“A group of people are continuing to protest outside the Central Bank plaza in Dublin city centre.
The protests are under the banner of “Occupy Dame Street”, which saw demonstrators set up camp outside the building on Saturday afternoon.
The group has said its mission is to end corporate corruption and keep the International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank out of Irish affairs.
The group is also demanding the return to the Irish people of oil and gas reserves off the Irish coast.”
…says RTE News yesterday. The rest of this typically enemic report (titled Occupy Dame Street protest enters third night) is about the US.
Unkie Dave however, has been providing day-to-day accounts of activity on his Booming Back blog, which is of far more interest to #occupydamestreet watchers.
“Evenings on Occupied Dame Street are a strange affair, the calm of the afternoon gives way to the frantic energy of the second General Assembly of the day, currently held at 6pm, and the influx of interested people on their way home from work, college, school and the like.
The General Assemblies are an open and collaborative affair, a way for everyone to have their voices heard, news and announcements to be shared and for the #OccupyDameStreet movement to take its collective decisions. Anyone can participate in these meetings, even if they have just arrived at the site, and a system of hand gestures is used to show agreement, disagreement or to raise points of order and information, the idea being that if you just agree with something, you can show your agreement by waving your hands in the air, there’s no need for everyone to speak just to say, ‘I agree with her”. If this idea had been introduced to the last office I worked in, our department meetings would have been over in five minutes and we’d all have had more time for the important things like coffee and sleeping. As agreement is reached through consensus, an awful lot of hand-waving takes place and the effect has come to be lovingly referred to as “Jazz Hands”.
Smooth”
And Trade Union TV has a video of the occupation:
Photo courtesy of Unkie Dave.
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