Solidarity from America / Video from Rossport

mayo | environment | press release

Sunday October 08, 2006 22:23

by NIFC - National Irish Freedom Committee

nifcmem at optonline dot net

Support the communities of Rossport and Bellanaboy

The National Irish Freedom Committee has been helping publicise the struggle in Rossport for quite some time now and we are the only Irish organisation here in America that has been vocal in our support of the community in Mayo, and have used our resources to help keep our members and other concerned people informed about what is going on there.

Solidarity from the NIFC /Video from Rossport

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The National Irish Freedom Committee has been helping publicise the struggle in Rossport for quite some time now and we are the only Irish organisation here in America that has been vocal in our support of the community in Mayo, and have used our resources to help keep our members and other concerned people informed about what is going on there.

We view it as an more obvious than usual attack on community that the fatcats in leinster house couldnt care less about as well as an anti-enviromental monster being put in in an ecologically pristine landscape. The reasons we support and promote the EIRE NUA and SAOL NUA programmes is because they bring power down to the lowest level, only through the way put forward in these documents can communities have a say in how they are run, genuine power to the people, not just a slogan.

This August a number of members of the NIFC were back home. We attended and took part in the 25th anniversary commemoration of the 1981 Hunger Strike held in Bundoran, visited and interviewed Tan War veteran Dan Keating. One of the many things we also accomplished was visiting the people of Mayo who are active in opposition to Shell.

A video was made showing just how pristine this area is and how a refinery here will destroy it all. Interviews with the Corduff family and others directly involved in defence of their community and enviroment..

You can view this short video by visiting our website www.irishfreedom.net

Just scroll down the site to latest Rossport news, "The Occupation of Bellnaboy". There is a link to the video at the bottom.

Support the communities of Rossport and Bellanaboy
Support Eire Nua
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Cumann Na Saoirse Náisíunta
National Irish Freedom Committee
http://www.irishfreedom.net/