Demilitarising Finance: a Walking, Talking and Singing Tour of the IFSC
03 September 2025
This Culture Night, discover Dublin’s Docklands as you’ve never seen them before. Join Financial Justice Ireland, in collaboration with Afri, for a participatory walking tour that blends protest and performance, spoken word and live music.
Together we will uncover how the financial district is complicit in militarism, fossil fuels, tax injustice and genocide. But this is also a space of resistance and imagination. At the same time, we will forge new paths forward, asking what it would mean if our economy were organised around care, community, and solidarity rather than profit and war. As Audre Lorde reminds us, “Without community, there is no liberation.”
Featuring a wide range of acclaimed speakers, poets and musicians, this is not a tour to simply attend but one to join. Expect to walk, question, and sing.
- James Connolly Memorial/Liberty Hall - Demilitarising Finance - Katie Martin Afri (Action From Ireland) Coordinator & Hilary Darcy FJI GCE Coordinator
- 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
We are very lucky to have Rachel Dempsey at fullcirclechange.ie to facilitate group singing on our tour. Members of the Mothers Against Genocide choir will sing their heartbreakingly beautiful 'A Mother's Heart for Palestine' at STOP 6 - donate & download here https://mothersagainstgenocide.mychannl.com/
Tickets are freely available on Eventbrite:
