Upcoming Events

 

Four Steps To Recovery

Launch of Community Platform Progressive Tax Reform Campaign

When: Monday 13th September at 11am
Where: Buswells Hotel, 23-25 Molesworth St., Dublin

Cutting vital public services, taxing low paid workers, cutting social welfare and capital investment are being presented as the only options to reduce the budget deficit. The Community Platform rejects this notion and presents real alternatives in the form of progressive tax reform that will both address the budget deficit and stimulate economic recovery. 

The Community Platform is a network of 29 National organisations which work to address poverty and social exclusion.

 

A COMMUNITY WORK APPROACH TO PEACE BUILDING
CWC Harnessing Equality for Lasting Peace (HELP) Project Seminar

Tuesday, September 21st 2010 10am - 3.30pm

Station House Hotel, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal

To mark the United Nations International Day of Peace on 21st September, the Community Workers Co-operative will host a seminar entitled A Community Work Approach to Peace Building.

Objectives of Seminar

 To stimulate discussion on the links between Peace Building and Community Work;
 To explore how consciously integrating these two perspectives might clarify Community Work in the region and enhance it on an all island basis;
 To examine various methods and means of working to actively deliver lasting impacts within communities.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Bush - INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute), University of Ulster at Magee College, Derry/Londonderry

This is a free event but, as numbers are limited, prior booking is required

To register, contact: Angela Holohan, CWC Donegal Network, 2nd Floor, Riverfront House, Pearse Road Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Tel: 00353 (0) 74 9128792 angelaholohan@cwc.ie

Claiming Our Future

Where:    Industries Hall of the RDS in Dublin City

When:      Saturday, 30th October (ALL-DAY

'Claiming our Future' is an event to stimulate the emergence of a cross sectoral community of interest and action for a more equal, inclusive and sustainable Ireland. We are organising this event because we are deeply dissatisfied with the direction of Government policy in response to the economic recession. We do not accept that there is no alternative to these policies. There are choices to be made and civil society has a vital contribution to make in identifying and progressing new policy choices.

Earlier this year Is Feidir Linn, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the Environmental Pillar of Social Partnership, the Community Platform, Social Justice Ireland and TASC began a series of meeting to explore how best to cooperate and coordinate endeavours for a more equal, inclusive and sustainable Ireland.

From these initial discussions a wider range of civil society organisations have begun to meet to organize this event. These organisations include trade unions, environmental groups, community groups, migrant worker organisations, youth groups, older people's organisations, cultural groups, student groups, developing world groups, rural networks, women's organisations, disability groups, social media and social justice organisations.

We aim to have a thousand people at the event drawn from all parts of civil society and from all corners of Ireland. The event is planned to provide an opportunity to discuss and deliberate on:
»    The values that we share and espouse.

»    The implications of these values for new policy choices.

»    New ways of cooperating and coordinating across civil society to advance these values and policy choices.

Local meetings and activities are being planned throughout the country in the lead up to this event. If you are interested in getting involved in the event and in the local initiatives please get in touch:

Co-ordinator: Bríd Nolan // Tel: 01-8870726 // Mob: 086 8474466

Address: O'Lehane House, 9 Cavendish Row, Dublin 1

Email: info@claimingourfuture.ie // Web: www.claimingourfuture.ie