They’re just like us.
Except they don’t work, live on welfare, commit crimes, and live in shanty towns on the streets.
But besides that, they’re exactly the same and the only difference is skin color.
Fencing erected along Dublin’s Grand Canal in recent months is “exclusionary, racist and classist” and represents the “deliberate exclusion of certain groups from public spaces”, a coalition of social justice and political representatives have said.
The Take Back Our Spaces Coalition, which includes members of the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU), Social Rights Ireland, Queer Intifada and People Before Profit, have called for a “humane and constructive solution” to the use of fencing along south Dublin’s Grand Canal that was erected to prevent asylum seekers and homeless people camping in the area.
The fencing, which stretches from Grand Canal Street near the Google Docks, to Windsor Terrace in Portobello, started going up in late May after more than 100 asylum seekers were evicted from a camp on the banks of the water. Some of the fencing was temporarily pulled down in mid-July following a protest, but was quickly reinstated by gardaí.
Erecting this fencing “disproportionately affects vulnerable groups such as asylum seekers, the homeless population and working-class people,” said the Take Back Our Spaces Coalition in a letter addressed to Waterways Ireland, Minister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman and Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien.
The cops keep stopping the vibrants from bringing in enrichment
The fencing is “not a solution but rather a symptom of a much larger problem – the failure to address the needs of the most vulnerable in our society”, says the letter, adding that the barriers are “tools of division and exclusion” that are used to “weaponise the immigration issue” and “divide working-class communities”.
It also noted that €30,000 per week was being spent on “turning these spaces into sites of exclusion and hostility”. Waterways Ireland confirmed that maintaining the fencing does cost about €30,000 per week but noted that they had not received any formal complaints about the fences.
The organisation acknowledged that using fencing along the canal was “not ideal, but it is necessary to mitigate risk to health and safety, which is our over-riding concern”.
Yeah, it’s…
I guess it’s whatever it is.
It’s democracy?
Whatever it’s called, you don’t have any choice. You just have to be replaced with these brown people. If you don’t like it, you must go to prison forever.
Video filmed by some racist woman