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Reopening of Rossport Resistance Resort welcomed by Residents
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Wednesday March 01, 2006 01:13 by Belle, Terry, Connor, M, Tracey, Niall, EC - Rossport solidarity camp rossportsolidaritycamp at gmail dot com 097 20944
the solidarity camp is back...
Last weekend Rossport Solidarity Camp was re-opened. The origin of the camp was the Solidarity Gathering on the first weekend in June last year. This happened days after Shell were due to start work at Glengad, a beach across the estuary from Rossport, work which has yet to commence. This gathering also saw the inauguration of the national wing of Shell to Sea. The background to these events was attempts to enter farmlands to build the Rossport part of the pipeline, and injunctions from the High Court. (There had been a NUI Galway Ecology Society visit to the area in February). The camp began as Rossport residents prevented Shell’s trucks from entering their village with a ‘park in’. Another notable event at that time, the middle of June, was a visit to the area by some shareholders, who got a bit of a shock. With the imprisonment of Willie Corduff, Brendan Philbin, Vincent McGrath, Philip McGrath and Micheal O‘Seighin, on the 29th of June, mass picketing began on all active Shell sites in Erris, see Rossport Resistance Steps Up a Gear, Report from Rossport, Photo Report from Rossport, A Few Days of Struggle in North West Mayo. At this time the camp got up and running, in Rossport, and with an off-shoot in Glengad, and occasional other off-shoots in various parts of the proposed pipeline route. Campers picketed the Rossport compound, which was successfully closed down, and the camp also served as a sort of info-point to where people could travel and learn about what is happening. Good reports from the camp last summer are here and here. The camp organised the Tenth Grassroots Gathering at the end of August, as well as the solidarity week.
Last year the camp functioned in a very ad hoc manner, as it was almost spontaneous in its lack of pre-planning, sustained equipment wise in a very haphazard manner, with a mix of donations from sympathisers, and some campers’ personal property.
Thirty people travelled to Rossport Co. Mayo this weekend to help campers and locals in the re-erection of Rossport Solidarity Camp. Supporters and campaigners came from all over Ireland as well as New Zealand, Sweden, Holland and England for the reopening of the camp, which will act as a physical and symbolic block to Shell’ s pipeline and inland gas refinery due for construction last year, and so far halted due to a campaign of non-violent direct action. |
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keep her lit!
the camp is here in mayo .very nice .
special place , if the local people do not want this gas pipe here , why should they have to have it?simple they shouldnt. so come visit ,enjoy it , support it. shell to sea, to hell , they are already there.
so i visited for the opening of the camp , first time to this part of ireland , very nice,i would have liked to stay longer , the purpose of this article is realy to send the photos ,
.it was a nice place to be the camp, i hope to go back .
VISIT THE CAMP.
So all the best to all of you .
this is the land
the cow is on the beach
the marque
floor going in
Well done all. Skies look blue but weather is cold. Hope to get up there soon. Love, warmth y solidoridad. Beanacht de libh. M.
Well done to everybody involved. I'll have to get myself up there soon.
We're hoping to organise a bus up to the camp at the end of next week. Full details have yet to be finalised, but if anyone is interested please send us a mail to the gmail address, and we'll let you know the story as soon as possible.
Well done people
Can't wait to get back there, good stuff,
see yas next week!!!
Glengad was today turned into a even more beautiful place today with a heavy snow covering.
From tomorrow onwards we are receiving a lot more people, with a contingent from Wales coming over tomorrow, and American and British visitors next week.
Going to the camp
Rossport House, now derelict abode of the last people who tried to run the place. Shell take note.
Building Toilet
Building Toliet
Building box for solar panels
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Dooncarton mountain in the snow
the camp under snow
Bob
Aron
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view of the camp from the beach
Alan in the marque
making the bitchin' kitchin in the marque
Terry and Bob construct a toilet
the sun sets over Dooncarton
Photos from Friday March 3rd
Part of the Grey Water System which filters waste water so it can be put into the soil without causing harm
Aron and Andy install the invertor and batteries for the solar panels.
Do not confuse the Solidarity Camp with one of Ireland's many summer festivals. This is a serious place with a serious objective. It can also be a fun place, a place to have the craic, meet your mates and swap stories, and a lovely place to hang out, but don't forget, there is work to be done. The camp was not beamed in from outer space one night but has evolved ( and is still evolving) as the consequence of a lot of hard graft by a dedicated few. If you plan to visit, I'm sure you will be most welcome, even if you only want to drink tea and talk about past campaigns ( yawn). But if you really want to help, come prepared. Wear the right clothes for outdoor work and have good footwear for protection against the VERY muddy walk down to the camp. Waterproofs are essential; this is Ireland remember, whatever about the beautiful pics of the camp in the snow! It does rain! On the Mayo coast, the rain is often of the horizontal variety.
Aim to be as self sufficient as possible. If the camp has to physically support or look after you during your visit, that means less resources to devote to developing the camp infrastructure. Ask yourself are you a 'dependent,' or a 'contributor'? If the former, perhaps you should ask the camp how many 'dependents' they are able to support before all work grinds to a halt. When I'm in my dotage, I hope I will still be able to visit protest camps like the one in North Mayo and bore the young ones with tales from my youth. But I also hope that I might still be able to be able to do something more useful than simply take up space.
construction work at the camp is still ongoing. at the moment our main building project is a communal area/ sitting room. were building it out of timber and ply and hopefully with a nice truck tarp roof if we can find one (anyone?). we got the idea for this type of structure at a protest camp in england called camp bling at south end on sea.
we are building a communal living room to left of marquee
building the joists to support the floor
mid construction chat
sharing the varnishing job
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Great Pics of the solidarity camp which continues to go from strength to strenghth. Should get plenty of visitors and supporters staying in beautifull Rossport over the summer. The Sun-sets alone are worth the visit!!