Here we go again
This blog was started on May 15, 2008, to fight for a more democratic EU and, therefore, against the terms of the pre-constitutional legalistic text called Treaty of Lisbon, with a post containing only this declaration:
(Click on the title to read it in English, or click on the following links to read the same text in other language: português, français, deutsch, nederlands, español.
Sixteen months later, the deafness of our politicians forced many of us back to the fight.
This time, this blog will be used more as a support to others better organized, advertising initiatives and actions, reporting news and results.
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If the Yes vote wins through on Friday – it will be a really sad day for democracy. We’ll never get the chance to Vote on anything as significant as this again and all because we were greedy, ignorant and lazy. So greedy that we felt the 
only way to line our pockets with cash again would be to vote yes. So ignorant towards what is in the actual treaty to vote Yes and so lazy to take the time out to actually see how the treaty will affect us in the future.
A simple look at how much of a difference our No vote made the last time round is just a sign of what is to come. When we ratify this treaty, they won’t have to ask us what we think again, they can just go ahead and do whatever the hell they like. The voice of the people will not be heard when it comes to Europe making decisions that could affect all of our lives.
Time for change - the first step is to say No.
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Military spending is the only area where Lisbon demands an increase – no mention of health or education. And neutrality is completely out the window. Article 31 makes clear that decisions under the Common Foreign and Security Policy would be very difficult to veto. And if we disagreed with a decision, the loyalty and gagging clauses in Article 24 mean that Irish representatives could not speak out at places like the UN. An EU armed force is envisaged in Article 42. The military industries are incorporated into European treaty law as the Eureopan Defence Agency – to which all must contribute. A sub-group of well-armed states can form their own alliance within the EU, linking up to NATO, and go to war outside Europe – using the resources provided by all EU countries. Willie O’Dea has just published a Bill saying Ireland could join such a military alliance by a decision of the Dáil – no mention of a referendum. Nor is a UN mandate is needed for EU military action.
Time for Change - Women Say No To Lisbon
Women Say No To Lisbon, Buswells Hotel, Dublin, 11am Wednesday, September 30 2009
… Article 207 of the treaty removes the veto governments now have on the EU’s international proposals to liberalise health, education and social services. Keeping the power to veto proposals could help us tthat would let even more multinationals make profits from essential services.
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Campaign Against the EU Constitution
Portrait of the Eurocrat as a young revolutionary
European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, who was just reelected to a second term, is about as establishment as you get, a staunch defender of free trade and open markets.
But in the mid-1970s, soon after Portugal’s transition to democracy, Barroso was a committed member of the Maoist Reorganising Movement of the Proletariat Party. Here he is at a meeting of leftwing students in 1976, laying into Portugal’s bourgeois education system in a somewhat confusing statement:
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Barroso switched to the mainstream Social Democratic Party in 1980, going on to become Portugal’s Prime Minister two decades later.Barroso has clearly come a long way since those days, though I would imagine that the mastery of bullshit jargon and obfuscation that he apparently acquired as a young Maoist must serve him well in Brussels.
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