Irish Left ArchivePublished #OnThisDay, 18th August 1997:
"Down With Racist Anti-Traveller Attacks! For Trade Union Centred Defence of Traveller Halting Sites!"
A leaflet from the Dublin Spartacist Group on #TravellersRights
New document:
"Down With Racist Anti-Traveller Attacks!"
From the Dublin Spartacist Group, August 1997.
Traveller Activism in the 1980s: The Committee for the Rights of Travellers and Mincéir Misli
An outline of early '80s Travellers' Rights groups and the first Traveller candidate in a general election, Nan Joyce.
Traveller Activism in the 1980s: The Committee for the Rights of Travellers and Mincéir Misli
From Aonrud. The Committee for the Rights of Travellers was formed in 1982 in response to anti-Traveller protests in Dublin with the aim of exposing mistreatment of Travellers by the state and anti-Traveller protesters,…
#OnThisDay 24th of November 1982, Nan Joyce became the first Traveller to stand in an Irish election.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/11/24/#event-5712
This article provides some of the history and background to the Committee for the Rights of Travellers and Nan Joyce's campaign: https://www.leftarchive.ie/article/5703/
#IrishTravellers #TravellersRights #Elections #OTD #IrishHistory
Since this article has been shared a bit recently, readers might notice we have very little material from Traveller activism on our website.
If anyone has documents from Travellers organisations or campaigns that they'd be willing to send us (either digital or physical copies for us to scan) we'd be delighted to hear from you!
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P Gurgel-SegrilloThe Irish Human Rights & Equality Commission is making the request of local authorities in South Dublin, Limerick City and County, Tipperary, Donegal, Mayo, #CorkCity and Wicklow using its powers under section 32(1) of the IHREC Act 2014.
“The State’s failure to provide culturally appropriate accommodation for members of the #Traveller community has long been criticised by the UN, the EU and various international human rights bodies." #TravellersRights #CulturalHeritage
Local authorities told to draw up Traveller accommodation equality action plans
Seven local authorities have been asked to prepare and implement an equality and action plan on the provision of Traveller accommodation and services. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is making the request of local authorities in South Dublin, Limerick City and County, Tipperary, Doneg