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The Budget was an insult to hundreds of thousands of tenants, homeless people and those stuck living in an overcrowded family home across the Island.
Read CATU Ireland's response below and join the union at
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🚨🚨 EVICTION THREAT, MOBILISE NOW 🚨🚨
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In the dead of night on Monday last, two landlords, alongside another 2 intimidating masked men, arrived at the door of CATU member Luke’s home to evict him into homelessness... Info, incl videos below 👇
Please support & retweet!
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Union does it again! Tenant safe after a long stand-off, landlord backs off. Union power did this!
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📢 Dept Of Housing Occupied, Grounds Locked Down📢
In opposition to the recent government decision to lift the ban on evictions, activists from CATU and beyond today held a rally at the Spire in Dublin. 1/3
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Robert Troy is still a TD. As a landlord TD, he asked Housing Minister to support landlords seeking to evict tenants during pandemic.
We are picketing Troy's constituency office in Mullingar on Friday 26/8 at noon. Join the picket, join the union!
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Update: Violent eviction remains ongoing at Sunnyvale, 23 Prussia Street, D7. Occupants' belongings are being smashed up, the area being destroyed so that it's uninhabitable & a number of people have been physically assaulted by private security. Garda are facilitating all of it.
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🚨🚨🚨
Eviction alert 21 Harrington St, Dublin 8. Bodies needed
Rosemary, a pensioner, has been violently threatened by her landlord who has hired private security & illegally booted in her door attempting to evict her into homeless
We call on the local community to defend her
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⚠️⚠️ URGENT! ⚠️⚠️
We are facing the threat of a lawsuit by a landlord for defamation arising from an anti-eviction campaign.
The costs of this puts the viability of our union in danger!
Pls consider donating towards our legal fees here:
🧵(1/)
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CATU’s LGBTQ+ Caucus have unanimously voted to join the
@transwritersu
boycott of the Irish Times (1/4)
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6PM THIS EVENING: All those who can do so are being asked by the occupants to mobilise outside Sunnyvale, 23 Prussia Street, They'd like a show of support from those currently working/otherwise engaged.
If you can attend, please do. Today's reprehensible scenes must be resisted.
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The shocking scenes at 23 Prussia Street on Wednesday are a reminder that those that hoard property across Ireland would rather destroy it than see it used for a purpose other than profit.
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Let's not forget that the vast majority of landlords have been & are, creaming it for years. Silly people such as the landlord in this video, who it appears could not negotiate the basics in security of tenure, are few & far between - they get far more coverage than warrants them
"It''s not worth it. I'd say that to anyone considering becoming a landlord in this country."
- Jeanette Brown on how, despite being a homeowner, she has now been left with nowhere to live due to the moratorium on evictions.
#TonightVMTV
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Landlordism is the reason Irish people are homeless on the streets
Landlordism is the reason migrants are homeless
The far right distract us from this
The far right support landlordism
Not Irish people
Not workers
Not unemployed
Not tenants
Not homeowners
Not homeless
Landlords
The far right are trying to spread hatred, division & fear.
We must Stand Together:
Against racism, hate & war.
For homes, health, & rights for all.
To end inequality.
📆Sat, March 2nd
⏰ 1:30pm
📌 Garden of Remembrance
Event👇🏾
#DiversityNotDivision
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🚨 CATU Ireland Press Statement, calling for a LOCAL AND NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION to oppose the lifting of the eviction ban. 🏠✊
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Eviction support needed at 418 Harolds Cross road. Landlord there with solicitor and trying to get guards to help. Anyone around please get there ASAP.
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Plenty of juicy stuff in this report - but the revelation that a Garda sergeant gave PJ McGrath a character reference to avoid jail time for fraud, in the context of the Garda collaboration with Wednesday's eviction, really is something
The property developer behind the Prussia Street eviction is a convicted fraudster with a history of negative RTB rulings for unlawful evictions and overcharging tenants.
The former Fianna Fáil donor now has plans for 166 new build-to-rents.
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🚨 DEMONSTRATION 🚨
⏰ 6pm tonight
📍 21 Harrington St, Dublin 8
▪️ One of our members, a pensioner, was violently evicted from her home earlier by hired thugs. Thankfully, with the help of the community, she got back in. 1/3
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Sold-out screening of "The Rent Strike" today in the Liberty Theatre. This documentary shows a part of the history of the fight for tenants rights in Ireland.
#housing
#ireland
#dublin
#WeNeedHomes
#union
#housingcrisis
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Activists are now occupying the inside of the Department whilst supporters are outside following a Garda cordoning of the building.
If you are near Customs House Quay, support is very welcome! 3/3
Join CATU now ✊
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19 families in Ballymacool estate located in Letterkenny have received eviction notices.
In a letter issued by the developer landlord, says that due to changes in the company the houses are being sold.
Accommodation in the area is not affordable to working class families
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Huge thank you to
@Rubberbandits
for mentioning us this week on the Blindboy Podcast! We're a growing union for all Ireland and support from such a popular voice in modern Irish culture means a lot to us.
#Solidarity
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Housing disproportionately affects trans people world wide and Ireland is no exception.
As a union we stand with our trans siblings.
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Horrific evictions have been happening throughout the eviction ban and will get much worse once the ban has been lifted. We must come together and resist evictions as communities. Join CATU, help organise your community, and together we will fight back against cruel Gov policies!
Video: Family of eight evicted from their home with no notice
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Most are aware, following recent legislation there exists a ban on evictions. We have made it clear that any further intimidation, coercion or attempts to remove Luke from the property will be met with the mobilisation of our membership and supporters to defend his tenancy
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Member Win!
Lucas, a CATU member in Drumcondra, had his deposit returned within 48hrs following a swiftly assembled phone picket of members across the country who let his landlord know in no uncertain terms they wouldn't stand for it.
Together, there's nothing we can't win 💪
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We had a very successful (and, finally, in-person!) Ard Fheis! A great year of organising is ahead of us. Remember to join if you're not already a member!
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On both sides of the Liffey this afternoon, CATU members were out in solidarity with fellow members - 2 facing eviction in Dublin 7, and a third fighting unjust arrears in East Wall.
Our demands are clear: No to evicting anyone into homelessness, no to mistreatment.
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CATU Members have voted 92% in favour of attending the Cost of Living Protest and have also launched two national campaigns. See below for further details!
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Protest at City Hall to remind the Council that we will not stand for the selling off of Public Land at St Michaels Estate or anywhere!
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CATU’s new newspaper “The New Tenant” is available now! Copies are on sale in
@ConnollyBooks
and through other outlets soon.
The paper will be launched at our upcoming rent strike 50th anniversary celebration and documentary screening in Liberty Hall Dublin on August 25th.
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The people are risen. Thousands and thousands on the street to tackle the cost of living.
Let's take this fight into every community on this island. Let's take on every landlord, every energy company and everyone who profits off our backs!
Join CATU at
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🚨Update on Tuath Housing Eviction
😎 Victory for CATU!
✊ The member in question has been offered new accommodation after the campaign highlighting this illegal eviction
🏠DCC were left with no option but to rehouse the member due to the public pressure on them.
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"There are encouraging signs that we are beginning to see the development of militant and broad-based movements today. Community Action Tenants Union Ireland (CATU) was established in 2019 and currently has 2,000 members throughout the island of Ireland."
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It was followed by a march on the Department of Housing at Customs Quay.
We are calling for:
• Eviction ban to be reinstated
• Building public housing
• Resist eviction attempts
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In Mullingar today, as the
#TroyStory
continues! Wherever you are in Ireland, join us--there's power in the union.
Robert Troy is still a TD. As a landlord TD, he asked Housing Minister to support landlords seeking to evict tenants during pandemic.
We are picketing Troy's constituency office in Mullingar on Friday 26/8 at noon. Join the picket, join the union!
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The eviction ban was lifted on Saturday despite warnings from various organisations, including CATU, that ending the ban would lead to a spike in homeless figures. 1/5
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So, what happened?
Today a member of CATU in Ranelagh faced an illegal forced eviction.
His landlord has put this tenant on a bogus licensee agreement and is using excuses about fire safety he refused to provide evidence for to evict his tenants.
And today... (1/4)
Union does it again! Tenant safe after a long stand-off, landlord backs off. Union power did this!
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Guards/landlord/solicitor left. All is good for now. Numbers win again, thanks for the support!
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The point of class analysis isn't that your landlord is a bad person, it's to say that your landlord has class interests that directly oppose your own.
They might not treat you like shit, but when push comes to shove they will put their income ahead of your wellbeing
#JoinCATU
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This is a reprehensible but probably unsurprising decision. The giveaway of public land continues thanks, as always, to FF, FG, Lab & the Greens.
However, to be disheartened for too long is to be defeated. Let's get organised & become impossible to ignore.
Disappointedly, Dublin City Councillors just voted to sell off prime public land on Oscar Traynor Road to private developer - 36 in favour, 23 against, 0 abstentions.
#SaveOscarTraynor
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CATU Ireland condemns illegal eviction in Waterford City, calling for justice and accountability as two members are left homeless.
#JusticeForTenants
#CATUIreland
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Astonishing pictures of the damage done by thugs that attempted to evict the residents of 23 Prussia Street today. All done while gardai stood by and watched. Solidarity with all those living there.
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Join us on Aug 25th at Liberty Hall for a historic "Rent Strike" documentary preview, marking 50 years since tenants united against hikes. Experience Irish working class history through interviews and a special launch. Your support matters—proceeds fund us.
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What a devastating night for renters. We cannot rely on help from a government who serves landlords.
We must defend, empower and struggle together.
Tenants power on the rise, nows the time to organise
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CETA is a rotten deal for tenants!
Join us at the Dublin Docklands tomorrow from 11.30 - 1pm outside Ireland's largest private landlord - IRES Reit, South Dock House, Hanover Quay.
CETA is a trade deal currently being pushed by government parties that will: (Thread)
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Bartra Capital, benefactors of the public land giveaway at O'Devaney Gardens in Dublin, are now looking to dramatically increase the Nr of for-profit units in the development. A group of DCC Cllrs. have a motion at tonight's Council meeting seeking a withdrawal from the deal(1/2)
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We are here, and our message is loud and clear.
Ongoing occupation of AXA HQ in Dublin 📢 here is our statement!
Not
#ProudToBeAXA
!
#KnowYouCan
divest from Israeli Apartheid!
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Not only is the rent too high, the private rental market is an unproductive use of resources. We dont need landlords, we need public housing. Land should be used in a way that meets the needs of society. It shouldnt be used as a means to enrich the few, at the expense of the many
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Protest has started outside the Ballymun civic centre across the road from the Travelodge where DCC plan to push out homeless families. Great to see locals coming out in support of their community.
#solidarity
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Just this week, CATU has 3 member defense cases in which tenants are being threatened with eviction into homelessness so that the landlords can sell the property. With housing prices soaring, they are putting profit above our member’s safety, security and community.
#rtept
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8/11
The landlords, Michael Smith & Ian Lumley, discuss "are we gonna throw him out now" and then give Luke three mins before they "physically eject him onto the streets"
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🏠 Ray Cooke Lettings is currently refusing to fix an out-of-control mould situation in the apartment of a CATU member in Tallaght, which is causing serious health problems for the tenants. Read the full statement here:
@Ray_Cooke
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It's time to get organised, please support this campaign and if you want to get involved with CATU, join now
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2/11
They issued threats of immediate, physical eviction before forcefully coercing Luke into writing a letter of intent to leave & affixing a new lock on his door. The landlords & their hired thugs have suggested that they will physically remove Luke from his home on Saturday.
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Standing in solidarity today with the tenants of 15 Rutland Place North who are facing eviction thanks to an unscrupulous vulture fund.
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Victory for CATU
On Wed July 8th CATU members stood in solidarity with fellow CATU members in Galloping Green to defend them from eviction. We are pleased to say that they have received notice that they can stay until July 31st as requested with no rent arrears
#PowerintheUnion
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CATU is not just for renters, we want to facilitate all people (as long as they don't directly profit from the commodification of housing/communities) to defend their communities and housing particularly now was we face into post pandemic austerity.
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Update: following pressure from CATU members, the receiver and letting agent have given the family a guarantee security in their home this winter!
#NoWinterEvictions
Our members, Tanzeela & Azeem, are facing into a Winter eviction thanks to the unholy trinity of Ray Cooke Lettings, Deloitte and Start Mortgages.
You'll find a full statement on our FB/Insta - but if you can help, instructions on how to do so are here:
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Dublin branches out today, picketing Supermacs at Heuston St. in solidarity with
@CATULimerick
Shannon Arms tenants.
NO EVICTIONS!
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Hear it from our members!
Come show your solidarity.
Ongoing occupation of AXA HQ in Dublin 📢 here is our statement!
Not
#ProudToBeAXA
!
#KnowYouCan
divest from Israeli Apartheid!
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Rent Strike! at Liberty Hall
On August 25th in (sold out!) Liberty Hall we had the first screening of our new documentary, The Rent Strike and a celebration of tenant movement and working class history. This August marks 50 years since the Irish tenants strike victory.
[1/4]
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Evictions are on the rise, poor living conditions are rampant, and communities are rapidly stripped of services. Developers, landlords and bullies are attacking and discriminating. There are plenty of reasons to be fearful and worried.
[🧵1/5, the other 4 tweets are optimistic!]
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📽️
Finally, after 25 minutes of intimidation, Luke ends the ordeal by writing an 'intent to leave' note. Suffice to say, this is a meaningless piece of paper!
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Busy few days in the struggle:
2DAY:
#MicaRedress
demo, Gdn. Remembrance, D1,12pm
Sat:
#SaveTheCobblestone
, 1pm, Smithfield Sq
Sat PM:
#StopCETA
banner making, 6pm -DM 4info
Mon:
#StopCETA
demo, 11:30, IresREIT HQ, HanoverQuay, D2
+ lots more CATU activity across the island
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CATU is working toward launching a caucus for people of colour!
If you are a union member who is a POC and would like to be involved in the groupchat to set it up, email catuireland
@gmail
.com
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Stand Up, Fight Back.
🆕 Illegal eviction update
We door-knocked around Queen’s Street to see if neighbours had any more evidence of the illegal eviction that took place.
The landlord rep, Eric Thompson, turned up to try intimidate us.
This is the evidence he didn’t want us to get…
@CatuIreland
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Yesterday CATU Rathmines/Ranelagh launched their local group. They discussed issues in the area such as high rents, gentrification and evictions, and elected a local committee. Join CATU today at and get involved ✊
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We recently tweeted about the upcoming by-election. This came across as reductive and championing electoralism as the answer to housing issues. For this we apologize. As a union we remain dedicated to direct community action and collective bargaining as our core principle.
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Shocking scenes at the ongoing eviction of 23 Prussia Street. State-sanctioned violence against vulnerable people who were trying to make a home for themselves.
A barrage of bricks thrown and multiple ladders mounted on the building the remaining occupant has been dragged off the roof, almost killed in the process. Guards standing by doing nothing.
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The Gardai are escalating this, and our support is needed as soon as possible. If you can get to Prussia Street, please do.
6PM THIS EVENING: All those who can do so are being asked by the occupants to mobilise outside Sunnyvale, 23 Prussia Street, They'd like a show of support from those currently working/otherwise engaged.
If you can attend, please do. Today's reprehensible scenes must be resisted.
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⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
URGENT: ANTI-EVICTION THREAT!
Today Michael, a CATU member in Rathmines, was threatened with an illegal eviction.
A community protest will be held at *5 PM TODAY*, at 43 Rathmines Rd Upper, Rathmines, Dublin 6, D06 Y7F4 to show these slumlords they can't win!
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Nearly 80 people showed up today to learn how to defend their communities the day the eviction ban ends in the South.
Members are being skilled up to protect themselves and each other from the threat of eviction. While the pandemic has not gone away and many workers have lost
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It's time to get organised and resist evictions collectively. Stronger together.
Join CATU 👇
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A thread of the damage done to people's homes and lives in today's illegal attempted eviction. Cruel, unnecessary, violent. An attack on community spirit in Dublin. You can donate to their reconstruction fund through thatsocialcentre
@protonmail
.com.
Some photos of 23 Prussia St now.
The space has been taken back but it’s been badly damaged. People that live there say bedrooms have been covered in oil, every toilet has been smashed and windows and appliances have been broken. Spaces used for community events…
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Solidarity, rage and love from all of us in CATU
We are here. We will not be silenced. Sisters united will never be defeated ❤️
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A landlord registry would empower renters to make informed decisions about possible rental properties, while providing some much-needed accountability for landlords across Ireland. Accountability they've managed to dodge for far too long.
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3/11
Luke, a local musician and event promoter who has been involved in various community projects over the years, had this to say:
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Our No Evictions campaign group are putting together a protest on December 12th, targeting the McGrath Group (the dodgy landlords/fraudsters behind the recent attempted eviction on Prussia Street in Dublin).
Full statement here:
Pls share far & wide!
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On the 7th of March 2023, the 26 county government decided to lift the winter eviction ban heaping fear and insecurity on thousands of people.
We, as a Community and Tenants’ Union will fight this.
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We keep hearing from folks outside of cities who are facing housing issues- abusive landlords, impossible rents, illegal evictions. But when communities come together, we can fight back against this! Even if you're not in a city, it's time to
#JoinCATU
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There is currently an eviction taking place on St Joseph's parade, just off Dorset Street. Please come and support if you can, and wear a mask
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Landlord has returned with heavies to 21 Harrington St, Dublin 8. Calling on anyone around to get there as quick as possible!
🚨 DEMONSTRATION 🚨
⏰ 6pm tonight
📍 21 Harrington St, Dublin 8
▪️ One of our members, a pensioner, was violently evicted from her home earlier by hired thugs. Thankfully, with the help of the community, she got back in. 1/3
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Look, it's the new amazing national committee taking over from the brilliant national committee of 2022-2023! An exciting year of campaigns, action and community building is ahead for the union! ✊️
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9/11
📽️
The masked, hired thugs affix a new lock to Luke's door and suggest that it'll be activated on Saturday
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Members of CATU in Galway are organising towards their committee and campaign launch on August 29th. Today they did a stall to talk to people in the community about CATU. More to come from this fab bunch soon! ✊✊✊
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