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PROTESTERS ARE OCCUPYING the Benetton store in Dublin’s St. Stephen’s Green shopping centre this evening.
The action is being taken in protest of Benetton’s failure to make good on the reparations due to the victims of 2013′s Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh, the second anniversary of which is tomorrow.
Protesters Gerry Lydon and Aisling Butler spoke to TheJournal.ie at the scene, and said the aim of the protest was to remind Benetton that ‘it’s time to pay up’.
“They think they’re really good for playing the €1 million they have paid so far – there’s five times that amount due from them, we can’t forget that,” said Butler.
This just shows that you can protest peacefully without worrying about getting arrested,” says Lydon.
Every company involved in the Rana Plaza disaster have disgraced themselves, but at least the likes of Primark have actually paid up.
The six protesters are planning to stay in until closing time of 9pm this evening. Apart from one garda who was on the scene when TheJournal.ie was present, the protest seemed to be a peaceful one.
There’s 639 other protests going on around the world today in protest of Benetton’s failure to pay the full compensation due, although only the one in Ireland.
1,129 people died when the Rana Plaza building collapsed in Bangladesh on 24 April, 2013, with approximately a further 2,500 people injured, many severely.
It is seen as the worst clothing manufacture accident in history, as well as the deadliest structural failure of a building in modern times.
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Gay rights activists? Let me get this straight? They’re offended that trans men cants be sexual assailants. We should be all up in arms and this paedophile should be in prison. Poor child. I don’t give a donkey’s about its gender.
It didn’t say gay rights activists were offended because a Trans gender person can’t be assailants . the law is an ass and needs changing to prevent these kind of loopholes . Eh the ‘pedophile is in prison…have you a reading problem .why should we all be up in arms over stupid laws in Singapore have we no problems in Ireland to complain about anymore ??
Surely this has to be one of the dumbest comments every posted on the Journal.ie, and that is some achievement!
Doubtful they are in prison…
This was a judgment that was overturned on appeal. Appeals take months if not years. At 8 months and given this new judgment would almost certainly include time served on the previous charge.
I think you completely misunderstood the comment actually , they had pleaded Guilty to the charges , the judge threw out the guilty plea because of a dumbass law , the assailant got 8 months for the lesser charge , now re read the article and see why I still think that we don’t need “to be up in arms ” , the law just needs fixing , the guilty party pleaded guilty , I Think you are missing that , and certainly missing my position which is that I would have jailed them for 40 years. But as I said it’s the law that’s an ass here …..
As they should be. When a group is unequal, groups wanting equality shouldn’t conveniently forget the ways in which they are at an advantage when trying to level the playing field
“If he doesn’t have his bits, you must acquit”
Couldn’t help picturing Johnnie Cochran saying that!
In all fairness, the judge is in the clear on this. Even he said the law needs to change.
Penal code provision got ‘him/her’ off, can’t make this stuff up.
Penile Code surely !?!
What a load of boll**ks, or lack of even?……
Don’t forget i too for intersex.
LGBTIIQ&A.
What the actual f#%@?!?!?!?! Idiotic ruling
It’s ‘LBGTQ’ now? She was lucky not to be charged with a capital offence.
the Q stands for questioning, as in people unsure about their sexuality or in the process of discovering, i believe.
Dirty git….
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