Archive for 'Derry'
Setting the Truth Free
A message from the Bloody Sunday Families and wounded:
To our supporters everywhere
On 30th January 1972, a dark cloud descended upon this beautiful city. It stayed until last Tuesday, 15th June 2010 – over 38 years of a journey. It has now been lifted.
It has been a long journey from the beginning of the Bloody Sunday [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2010 under Bloody Sunday, British army, British government, Consultative Group on the Past, Derry, Irish peace process, accountability, awesome, ballymurphy massacre, culture of impunity, human rights, impunity, ireland, justice, relatives for justice, truth, truth and reconciliation, truth commission, truth recovery process.
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UN report highlights British collusion in secret detention and torture
The (fantastic) organization Reprieve today announced the release of a UN report (click that link to download the full report) into secret detention that exposes UK collusion in secret detention and torture. The investigation found, among other things, that the UK knew of the US’ rendition practices in 2002 but continued to hand them [...]
Posted: January 27th, 2010 under American politics, British government, Derry, Irish peace process, MI5, RUC, Reprieve, Special Branch, Uncategorized, United Nations, accountability, belfast, collusion, culture of impunity, human rights, impunity, ireland, justice, loyalist paramilitaries, margaret thatcher, middle east, sectarianism, shoot to kill policy, torture, truth, truth and reconciliation, truth commission, truth recovery process, war.
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why i love ireland, reason no. 784392
First, a confession: I yoinked this image from my friend’s Facebook page. This is the famed wall at Free Derry Corner in Derry, Ireland, and is pretty regularly painted to show solidarity with oppressed people the world over. I think the image speaks for itself, don’t you?
Posted: January 6th, 2009 under American politics, Derry, Israel, anti-zionism, awesome, collusion, human rights, justice, middle east, murals, palestine, political prisoners, war.
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Sign petition to support Calcast workers in Derry
Dear friends and comrades,
Please take a moment to sign the online petition in support of the Calcast workers sit-in in Derry and distribute it as widely as you can.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/calcast/petition.html
The workers, who are members of the UNITE trade union are demanding a fair redundancy payment. A few of us visited the factory on Monday evening, just [...]
Posted: November 25th, 2008 under Derry, economic justice, ireland, justice, trade unions, unions.
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Action Alert: Cancel the Aegis Contract! Lobby Obama
The following action alert was issued by the Pat Finucane Centre in remembrance of the anniversary of Peter McBride’s murder:
Peter Mc Bride Anniversary Action Alert-Lobby Barack Obama
Last year a supporter of the PFC in the US contacted Senator Barack Obama regarding the controversial Pentagon contract with LT Col Spicer, the former Scots Guards officer whose [...]
Posted: September 4th, 2008 under American politics, Barack Obama, British army, British government, Derry, Iraq, Irish America, Irish peace process, Pat Finucane Centre, Peter McBride, West Belfast, aegis defence services, belfast, human rights, ireland, presidential elections, private military contractors, shoot to kill policy, tim spicer, truth.
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Changing Times, Changing Realities by Inez McCormack
The following article by Inez McCormack was printed in last week’s Irish Echo and kicks off a new campaign to organize Irish America’s participation in a new drive to encourage and support equitable investment in the “new Northern Ireland”:
This should be a time for change and hope for all who live in the North. [...]
Posted: October 10th, 2007 under Derry, Inez McCormack, Irish peace process, MacBride Principles, belfast, human rights, ireland.
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Qana, Derry: The Dead Lie in Familiar Shapes
Article by Eamon McCann originally printed on Counterpunch:
It was the sudden eruption at the back of the room upstairs at Sandino’s which brought us eventually to the burial ground at Qana.
At the edge of the village, pictures [...]
Posted: September 4th, 2007 under Bloody Sunday, DUP, Derry, Eamon McCann, Irish peace process, Israel, Lebanon, Qana, Raytheon, Sinn Féin, human rights, ireland, middle east, war.
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MOD withdraws Operation Banner document
From the Pat Finucane Centre:
The British Ministry of Defence has agreed to temporarily withdraw and amend its controversial military analysis of Operation Banner, the British Army codename for operations here between August 1969 and July 31 2007. Stephanie English of the PFC explained:
“The decision was prompted by a complaint we lodged on behalf of the [...]
Posted: September 1st, 2007 under British government, Derry, Operation Banner, Pat Finucane Centre, Uncategorized, ireland.
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Tommy Makem at the Free Derry Fleadh
Folk musician and singer Tommy Makem, best known as one of The Clancy Brothers, died of lung cancer today. The following is a great video from YouTube of Makem both at and being interviewed about Free Derry’s “Liberation Fleadh” in celebration of the nationalist community’s self-declared autonomous zone. A “fleadh” is a music festival. This [...]
Posted: August 2nd, 2007 under British army, Derry, RUC, human rights, ireland, policing.
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