| A | B | C | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Naturalists | |||
2 | Event Type | Topic | Details | Funding |
3 | Day 1, 29 Sep. 2020 | $75,700 | ||
4 | Rally * 20 | Manifesto | In the constituencies: Carlow-Kilkenny; Cavan-Monaghan; Clare; Cork East; Cork North-West; Donegal; Dublin Fingal; Dublin West; Galway-East; Galway-West; Kerry; Kildare-North; Laois-Offaly; Limerick County; Longford-Westmeath; Mayo; Meath-West; Roscommon-Galway; Sligo-Leitrim; Tipperary; Wexford. Explaining and detailing key points of the manifesto and the benefits it presents to Ireland | $6,000 |
5 | Speech * 10 | Rent / MW policies | Done via livestream of a Zoom call of candidates for all 10 Dublin constituencies + Limerick City + Galway East + Waterford + Cork South-Central. Discussing new policy and how it will benefit Irish towns. | $3,000 |
6 | Canvassing * 5 | Small business support | Vidcom, Alweglim, Sylviagony, CCyan, go canvassing with volunteers to small businesses in their constituencies. They ask about the problems concerning them, and how Leinster House has left the Irish high street totally in the dark. | $500 |
7 | Stunt * 15 | Right to Roam | GregorTheBeggar stages a small but vocal protest at a Wild Atlantic Way bus stop in Galway City, demanding that the government act immediately to improve the public's ability to access Irish nature outside of designated footpaths. He is joined by the candidates for Galway-West, Mayo, Clare, Limerick County, Limerick City, Sligo-Leitrim, Offaly, Tipperary, Longford-Westmeath, Donegal, Cavan-Monaghan, Kerry, Cork South-West, and party leader Vidcom in this protest. | $1,500 |
8 | Advertisement * 39 | Small business flyer | The flyer posted on r/MhoirPress regarding small business tax rebates is printed and sent out to small businesses in towns in each constituency | $7,800 |
9 | Press * 20 | Perceived extremism | Party leader Vidcom delivers a speech online in which he assuages those accusing the Naturalists of being too extreme or fringe as seeing style over substance, and that the party's intent is simply to deliver real green changes to Ireland in the midst of the climate crisis and escalating rent problems, doing so outside the traditional left-right binary in an increasingly polarized world. | $100 |
10 | Advertisement * 39 | Return to Wild Nature | Billboards are paid for and posted across the country, showing images of natural beauty within Ireland and the slogan "Return to Ireland's Wild Nature - vote Naturalist today." | $19,500 |
11 | Rally * 20 | Tuition fees | Candidates in Dublin-Central, Dublin-Rathdown, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin Bay North, Dublin South-Central Galway-West, Limerick City, Roscommon-Galway, Cork South-Central, Waterford, Donegal, in their constituency universities (TCD UCD DCU TUD NUIG UL AIT UCC WIT DIT) as well as 9 in Kildare-North, Kildare-South, Wicklow, Meath-East, Meath-West, Kerry, Dublin-West, Dublin-Fingal, and Limerick County, hold rallies demanding the end to tuition fees and the introduction of "practical" survival courses in modern Irish education. | $10,000 |
12 | Advertisement * 39 | MW increase | Online adverts go up on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram advertising the party's policy of €14 per hour, providing a link to the party website and their handle @NaturalistsIE | $7,800 |
13 | Speech * 39 | Return to Wild Nature | All candidates end the day giving a speech outside Party HQ in their constituencies, advocating for a more holistic and natural Ireland that cares for all, cares for nature, and seeks to prioritise the human relationship over the relationship with money, technology, and other frivolities. All we have is each other. | $19,500 |
14 | Day 2, 30 Sep. 2020 | $60,000 | ||
15 | Advertisement * 39 | Factory Farming | TV and YouTube adverts are commissioned, showing the use of intensive farming practises in the Republic, and showing important information about the conditions and individuals repsonsible for the horrors. Proposals from the Naturalists to make the practise illegal are also outlined. | $30,000 |
16 | Rally * 5 | Electronics | Rallies are held in Limerick, Cork, Dublin, Galway, and Waterford condemning the presence of Google, Facebook, Apple, and other major Silicon Valley firms in Ireland. Outlining the destructive and harmful capacity of modern devices, the speakers advocate heavy regulation. | $10,000 |
17 | Canvassing * 39 | Community cohesion | Volunteers enquire with locals about how they feel whether their community feels integrated in that good old Irish community spirit, or if they feel distant and alienated in modern times. The firepit legislation is to be suggested in vague terms at these canvasses in order to show the Naturalist commitment to the community above all else | $6,000 |
18 | Speech * 20 | LGBT | Speeches are held in various LGBT centres across the country by candidates demanding an end to the restrictive practises of the HSE in its treatment of trans people in curtailing HRT, the immediate employment of more trans-friendly surgeons in order to perform gender reassignment surgeries, and the deregulation of "home-made" HRT so as to ensure that trans and nonbinary people in Ireland are no longer forced to look to possibly transphobic doctors for support. | $6,000 |
19 | Promise * 39 | LGBT | The party reaffirms its commitment, via online Zoom call, to be the first governing party in Irish history to put the needs and concerns of LGBT people in Ireland as a "top 3 priority", citing the aforementioned concerns with trans healthcare as well as the need to reaffirm LGB people's presence in society and the increased persecution of homophobic sentiments or violence. | $8,000 |
20 | Day 3, 1 Oct. 2020 | $264,000 | ||
21 | Stunt * 39 | Voter registration drive | Volunteers begin registering voters across the country in town squares or, in more rural communities, driving from house to house to make sure that voters are registered to vote for the election. | $5,000 |
22 | Advertisement * 39 | Attack on Fine Gael | TV and YouTube smear ads on Mika's EU plan go out, criticizing her as simply bribing rural communities into silence with Brussels money. The advert is signed off by party leader Vidcom, with a promise to put rural Ireland back at the centre of Irish politics once again. | $154,000 |
23 | Advertisement * 39 | Attack on Social Democrats | TV and YouTube smear ads criticising their rural and local government policy proposals as just deferring their responsibility to protect these regions, characterising it as simply throwing money at the problem in the hope it goes away. Social Democrats are a Dublin party - they do not care about the Roscommon farmer, the Kerry shephard, or the Galway dairy farmer. They want to ban turf! | $85,000 |
24 | Speech * 1 | Rent reductions | Alweglim delivers a speech in Dingle demanding an end to the escalating rent crisis in Ireland and promising the new Naturalist policy of rent abolition for those earning under 20k. This event is livestreamed on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. | $5,000 |
25 | Press * 15 | Rural policy | Sylviagony, McNichollas, and CCyan lead 12 other candidates in Ulster & Leinster demanding an end to the FF/FG/SD government practises that are squeezing farmers in the Dublin sphere out in favour of suburbia, and calling for the end of Dublin-centric politics in Ireland. | $2,000 |
26 | Promise | Return to Wild Nature | Gregor and Vidcom go on a livestream promising that the Naturalists, once in Leinster House, will not stray from their roots and commitment to Nature and will remain ecologically-minded at heart, always. The Naturalist platform will always be defined, first and foremost, in protecting, preserving, and growing Wild Nature in all. | $1,000 |
27 | Canvassing * 39 | Manifesto | Volunteers go door-to-door, handing out flyers and leaflets explaining how the voting process works in this election, detailing the Naturalist positions with a general summary of the manifesto and their policy commitments, encouraging voters to turn out tomorrow. | $6,000 |
28 | Rally * 39 | Get the vote out! | Party leader Vidcom leads a major rally in Dublin, asking the crowd to turn out at the polls tomorrow to vote Naturalist #1 and do whatever they can in their own lives and communities to protect, preserve, and grow Wild Nature, no matter what the election results are. | $6,000 |
29 | $399,700 | |||