#OccupyDameStreet Irish Central Bank in Dublin's city center

This is some of the speeches at the open mic earlier as #occupydamestreet began outside the Irish Central Bank in Dublin's city center. Lets start bringing it. We look back across history to those who abolished slavery, fought for human dignity, fought against colonialism and patriarchy. We are humans against capitalism and exploitation. We stand with all those across the globe resisting oppression and the imposition of economic and social violence in our lives. We recognise no authority that cannot and will not seek to justify itself. We come will love care and solidarity.

We are the 99%. This is a war on our lives, but we will fight back with our hearts, bodies and minds. And we will win.

Source: AnonOps

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Wikileaks claims Irishman gunned down in Bolivia was set up

An Irishman shot to death by the Bolivian Army in April 2009 was lured to his death, a newWikileaks document claims.

Michael Dwyer, a 24-year-old man from Tipperary, was one of the three men shot in Santa Cruzlast April 16th over an alleged plot to assassinate president Evo Morales.

Wikileaks quotes a U.S. Embassy cable which states the government set Dwyer and his fellow paramilitary gang members up in order to attack opponents of the Evo Morales government.

Bolivian investigators later claimed to have found email correspondence linking one of the men shot to Istvan Belovai, a former Hungarian military intelligence officer who defected to the U.S. in 1990 and later became a CIA agent.

Michael Dwyer

But United States diplomats say this was a hoax and Dwyer was lured to his death as part of a plot by Bolivia’s own intelligence services aimed at Morales opponents.

The diplomatic cable from La Paz released by Wikileaks says Dwyer was hired by disguised Bolivian intelligence agents and set up to mount a phony terrorist campaign.

The cable says this campaign would have given President Evo Morales an excuse to go after right wing critics of his.

The cable quotes a local source saying Dwyer and the two others were shot in order to “erase tracks.’

The source interviewed by US officials stated that Rózsa Flores, the leader of Dwyer’s ‘terrorists’ group, was contracted by Col Jorge Santiesteban, head of police intelligence, and his deputy, Capt Wálter Andrade.

The cable appears to be backed up by evidence from La Razon newspaper in Bolivia, which received photographs dated from  January 2007 and appeared to show Capt Andrade socialising with Rózsa Flores.

Sacha Llorenti, Bolivia’s interior minister has called the leaked cable  “gossip." Bolivia’s public prosecutor last month charged 39 people in the alleged plot including many opposition leaders who have fled the country.

The Dwyer family continue to press the Irish governemnt for help in finding out exactly what happened to their son.

Source: IrishCentral

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