Senator Pearse Doherty - Sinn Féin - Speech at Student Fees Protest

Sinn Féin's education spokesperson Senator Pearse Diherty addresses the crowd at the student fees protest on the 4th February 2009. It estimated that between 15,000 - 25,000 students took part in the demonstration against the re-introduction of student fees.

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[phoenix1916]

Pearse is a great orator!!

[michael1916]

SPOKE WELL

[phoenix1916]

@squirell1952 Totally disagree we have been Anglicised enough methinks!

[squirell1952]

@StudentsUnit3d : Most uneducated people want to stay that way. They would feel out of place if they went to a college, or got a good job pushing a pencil, or lived in a private estate instead of the drug-infested housing estate they now live in. Education is a DIRTY WORD to them. Even though education is free to them, they still want to remain ignorant. Let them. If they want to be toilet paper, that's up to them. The rest of us want to climb that impostant ladder called education.

[squirell1952]

@phoenix1916 : Speaks better than Garrett, Charlie, Biffo, the lot! But he could do with a course in BBC English. Articulate more, pronounce each sin-gle syl-lab-le. We Irish do speak in a slurry way at times, we need to slow down a bit! Look at the announcers on ULSTER ITV + BBC. They speak PERFECT English, enunciate everything correctly and hold onto their identity, their slight, lovely Ulster twang. That's all Pearse needs. But he'd be called a Protestant by ignorant people!!

[phoenix1916]

@belfast1990 Plenty did

[belfast1990]

vote SF

[mrronan2007]

What a luder another shouting shinner.rambling on against everything .typical shit talk from another sin man loves the sound of his own voice ...padraig pearse let me out Jesus this is old news politics has moved on the old hero days are over

[HEED1916]

A great speech. Pity he is in a party who dont actually have any principles.......

You can accept a loyalist veto without actually accepting it. You can be anti-fascist and anti-racist and also be in Government with the DUP and the Tories without actually appeasing the Brits, Fascism and racism.

Pearse nailed his colours to the mast there. So did McGuinness in 1986. So did Adams in 1983 when he said he would "not be the Sinn Fein leader to take you into Leinster House".

[gerardbyrne79]

With the latest developments in the 6 counties lets see were the shinners loyalaties lies.. 1169 onwards, lets see if they have sold out or not..lets see.

[StudentsUnit3d]

The commercialisation of education is driven by global forces around the world.

Therefore this development can only be countered by a global movement!!

::: Reclaim your Education - Global Week of Action :::

(20/04 - 29/04)

More info at: emancipating-education-for-all . org , search for it on the net or just contact me.

Let's get organized and unite for Free and Emancipatory education - worldwide!!

In Solidarity from Germany,

Mo.