Demilitarising Finance: a Walking, Talking and Singing Tour of the IFSC (Video)

As part of Culture Night 2025, Financial Justice Ireland collaborated with AFRI to host Demilitarising Finance: a Walking, Talking and Singing Tour of the International Financial Services Centre, Dublin.

As our video shows, we explored how the city's financial district is complicit in militarism, fossil fuels, tax injustice, and genocide.

We used our tour as an attempt to forge new paths forward, asking: what if our economy were organised around care, community, and solidarity instead of profit and war? As Audre Lorde reminds us, “Without community, there is no liberation.”

We were very lucky to have Rachel Dempsey of Full Circle Change to facilitate group singing on our tour. https://fullcirclechange.ie/

List of sites, topics and speakers:

James Connolly Memorial/Liberty Hall - Demilitarising Finance - Katie Martin Afri (Action From Ireland) Coordinator & Hilary Darcy FJI Director

Custom House - Tax Justice & Demilitarisation - Nessa Ní Chasaide, Maynooth University Department of Sociology 

Famine Memorial - Food as a Weapon of Colonialism and Militarism - Nandana James, Board member Afri (Action From Ireland) & Clare O’Grady Walshe, Member of Irish Seed Savers

Mayor Street - Security, Community Struggle and Solidarity - Clare O’Connor, Mothers Against Genocide, Marian Naughton Lex Innocentium & Helen Moynihan, Community Action Tenants Union

Hibernia REIT - Critical Perspectives on Peace - Cara McLoughlin, Derry-based facilitator & FJI trainer & Maximiliana Mtenga, Irish Development Education Association

Central Bank - No Financial Justice in a Genocide - Helen Mahony, Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign & Mothers Against Genocide