With mornings first light came the first blitzing of Lisbon Referendum posters. Last night, I was walking home with World According To Women co host and we noticed a peppering of posters that had appeared in the space of time that it had taken to eat a pizza over our weekly summit on solving the problems of the world over a bottle or 2 of wine.
On spotting the posters we made a pact that this time we really better get our fingers out and actually inform ourselves on the facts about this treaty and make our own decisions on why or why not it is so important to firstly make a comittment to turn out to vote on October 2nd but to make that vote a Yes.
When I left home for work this morning, every lamp post and telephone pole that could be scaled in the area that I live was plastered with posters for the referendum. It's as if an army of invisible Yes elves were out under the cloak of rainy darkness to claim every piece of street furniture that was rooted to the ground for their mantra.
I say 'Total Respect' to those of you who volunteered your time to scale the ladders while the rest of us slept, and to you all, the least I can do is respond by exercising my vote with responsibility and integrity.
So, here is the beginning of my journey to find out what saying yes to Lisbon will mean for me as a woman, an Irish citizen, a European.
Please share with me your thoughts about it.
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7 years ago
Lu, thanks for this post. You are absolutely right. Exercising our vote is the most important thing we can do right now to influence the winds of change. Regardless of the outcome we must have our individual say, we must understand what it is all about. Saying that the Irish people made their decision almost 18 months ago is a cop out. We are in a different world now and it is our responsibility as citizens Ireland and Europe to release ourselves from the shackles of indifference or even impotence and realise that we can have a say, we can feel empowered. What's that??? Yes we can??? Yes. We can.
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