Richard
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People Before Profit
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41 years old
Dublin
Ireland
Last Login: 1/19/2009
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| General | Literature, Politics, History, Music, Film, Art, Walking, family and friends. | | Music | Toots and the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, The Clash,The Specials, The Jam, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young,Bob Dylan, Christy Moore, Woody Guthrie, Paddy Casey, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Bille Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Coldplay, Manu Ciao, and lots of more Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Traditional, Folk, classical and anything good at all. | | Movies | Spartacus, Doctor Zhivago, Reds, October, Lord of the Rings, The Godfather, Blade Runner, Monty Python, The Matrix, Betty Blue, Vanilla Sky, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Land and Freedom, Matewan, Les Miserables, Ben Hur, Schindlers List, Laurence of Arabia, Apocalypse Now, Woody Allen, Il Postino, Once Upon a Time in America, | | Books | Joyce, especially, Dubliners, Ulysses, Portrait of an Artist, The Poetry of Shelly, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, WB Yeats, Sylvia Plath, Dave Lordan, Flann O Brien, Everything Oscar Wilde ever wrote, Shakespeare, Christpher Marlowe, Samuel Beckett, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, Dashel Hamet, Raymond Chandler, Elmore Leonard, The writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, James Connolly, Rosa Luxenburg, Tony Cliff, Alex Callincos, John Rees, Chris Harman, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Ian Banks, China Meiville, and loads, loads more. | | Heroes | The writers and musicians above, loads more I have forgotten, The people of Iraq, Palestine, Venuzuela, Afghanistan, Bolivia, and everyone that ever stood up against, injustice, war and oppression. |
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Richard's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Hometown: | Dun Laoghaire | | Body type: | 0' 1" | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Post grad |
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Richard Boyd Barrett pledges support forINTO class size campaign
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People Before Profit Alliance – Blackrock Newsletter
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REPORT ON BUILDING HEIGHTS IN DUN LAOGHAIRE VINDICATES SEAFRONT PROTESTS AND RESIDENT GROUPS
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About me:
Richard Boyd Barrett is the People Before Profit alliance candidate for Dun Laoghaire constituency in this year’s genral election He stands for a real alternative that places the needs of people, community and environment before the interests of developers and big business.
The government and the establishment political parties are already spending vast amounts of money, making promises about what they will do for us.
Richard Boyd Barrett has a proven track record at local and national level of organising community and grass-roots movements to raise the issues that matter.
He believes that it is People Power not promises that bring real change. If elected he will ensure voice of the People is heard in the Dail.
*Richard is the Chairperson and founding member of Save Our Seafront. He played a leading role in the successful campaign to stop plans for an 8-storey private development of Dun Laoghaire Baths. The campaign has forced the Council to agree to restore the Baths as a public amenity.
*He is campaigning against privatisation or high-rise apartments on the public seafront or on public spaces, such as Blackrock Baths, Dun Laoghaire Harbour, the Carlisle Pier, Bulloch Harbour. He wants these sites developed only as public amenities.
*He has actively supported local residents in areas such as Sallynoggin, Glenageary, Monkstown Farm, Dalkey and elsewhere in opposing unwanted developments and potentially dangerous phone masts.
*Richard is the convenor of the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Campaign Against Service Charges. He has led the campaign in this area against the unjust bin tax and the run-down of local services. He stands for a free public recycling system and opposes plans to reintroduce water charges.
*He is he Chairperson of the Irish Anti-War Movement, which has the led the campaign in this country against George Bush’s disastrous war in Iraq and the use of Shannon by the US military. He has played a central role in organising countless peace marches, including one of the biggest demonstrations in Irish history in 2003.
*He has been a leading voice in the greater Dun Laoghaire area campaigning for more social and affordable housing & public amenities and youth facilities. He has consistently campaigned against the handover of public land to private developers.
*Over many years, he has campaigned for workers and trade union rights and against racism and the exploitation of immigrant workers.
*Richard has lived all his life in the Dun Laoghaire area and is committed to maintaining and developing the area as a community with properly funded public services and a decent quality of life for all.
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