Ierland wsm.ie: What was the 1% Network? by Andrew Flood

The 1% Network was an attempt to create an anti-capitalist network in Ireland to fight 
austerity. It arose after the unsuccessful attempt by Garda to prevent the anti-capitalist 
bloc march down to a Right to Work protest outside Dail Eireann. ---- The name was chosen 
from a bank of Ireland report that highlighted that 1% of the population owned 34% of the 
wealth and the initial network callout was signed by éirígí, Irish Socialist Network, 
Revolutionary Anarcha-Feminist Group, Seomra Spraoi and the Workers Solidarity Movement. 
It existed for about 6 months and organised half a dozen events including a mass 
leafleting of an ICTU march, a 700 strong bloc on another ICTU march, 2 walking tours and 
a few press events. ---- The network was never formally would up but its last event was in 
March 2011. By that point some of the founding groups no longer had a real existence and 
eirigi had switched focus to concentrate on building protests against the visit of the 
British queen. This was 6 months before the emergance of Occupy Wall St, founded on the 
very similar concept of wealth ownership but reversed to focus on the 99%.

You'll get a good idea of what the network is about by reading the rest of the material at 
the 1% Network tag http://www.wsm.ie/1-network

http://www.wsm.ie/c/what-was-1-network