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Antrim - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970

Protest Against Water Charges

category antrim | worker & community struggles and protests | event notice author Tuesday March 18, 2008 23:43author by Non-payer - We Won't Pay Campaignauthor email wewontpay at btconnect dot comauthor phone 02890311778 Report this post to the editors

The We Won't Pay Campaign has called a protest in Belfast against the Northern Ireland Assembly Executive's decision to introduce water charges in April 2009.

1pm Saturday 5th April Castle Place
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Water bills see 15% increase, 14 months before they’re introduced!
February 28th, 2008

The We Won’t Pay Campaign has announced that the unexpected threat of water bills increasing by 15% next year is a warning of what will happen year after year unless the charges are defeated.

Pat Lawlor, secretary of the anti-water charges campaign, said “We have continuously warned that once water charges are introduced, bills will escalate year after year which will financially cripple thousands of households. We have seen the experience already in Britain, where water charges soared by 50% in the first four years of the introductionof water charges. This year, bills will increase by 18% on average in April, some areas will see water bills go up by 25%.”

The We Won’t Pay Campaign also attacked the “political parties who claimed to oppose water charges when seeking election to the Assembly but are now clearly preparing to stab the people in the back by imposing charges next April.”

The group also demanded that the “water service be brought fully back into public ownership and democratically run in the interests of the public, and not as a potential source of profits as the directors of Northern Ireland Water Ltd. want.”

Related Link: http://www.wewontpaycampaign.com

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Good idea     h    Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:32 
   Download the poster     non-payer    Fri Mar 28, 2008 18:49 
   Plans to collect water charges via rates illegal     non-payer    Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:06 
   Protest     young socialist    Wed Apr 09, 2008 00:38 


 
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