The Union of Students in Ireland, students' unions and student LGBTQ societies invite you to protest with us outside the Russian Embassy in Dublin at 11am on Wednesday, February 5th. Everyone welcome!
Address: 184-186, Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 14
For people heading from town, you can get the 14, 15 and 15b buses out to the protest!
Speakers include Vladimir Dotsenko, a Russian national working as a lecturer in Dublin; Amy Dudley, Auditor of DIT LGBT Society; Patrick Dempsey, Co-Chair of I...
The Union of Students in Ireland, students' unions and student LGBTQ societies invite you to protest with us outside the Russian Embassy in Dublin at 11am on Wednesday, February 5th. Everyone welcome!
Address: 184-186, Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 14
For people heading from town, you can get the 14, 15 and 15b buses out to the protest!
Speakers include Vladimir Dotsenko, a Russian national working as a lecturer in Dublin; Amy Dudley, Auditor of DIT LGBT Society; Patrick Dempsey, Co-Chair of IGLYO (International LGBTQ Youth and Student Organisation) and Stephen Hatton, LGBT Rights Officer with TCD Students' Union, and LGBT Noise.
The protest will take place two days before the Winter Olympic Games commence in Sochi and we want to show our solidarity with Russian LGBTQ people and outline our wishes below.
Dress in a colour from one of the Olympic rings (blue, yellow, black, green or red)! We will be taking a crowd photo on the day.
We want:
1. President Putin to pledge not to arrest anyone who is shown to be supporting LGBTQ rights during the Winter Olympics
2. To call on the International Olympics Committee to honour Principle 6. βAny form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement,β in relation to Sochi and future Olympic venues
3. The Irish Government to condemn the treatment of LGBTQ people in Sochi and across Russia.
4. President Putin to lift the 100 year ban on Moscow Pride
DIT LGBT Society are holding their Rainbow Week that week and have planned for this event to be one of their main events of the week.Programme of events here:
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