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Wednesday November 19, 2008 19:49 by Medusa - Galway Shell to Sea
Take back the Giveaway, meeting told. A Shell to Sea meeting in Galway adopted a new initiative, a nationwide petition for the renegotiation of the State's terms of agreement with the oil & gas corporations. Photos T.D. Tuesday night (Nov 18th) at the Imperial Hotel, Galway: a packed hall listened enthralled as the The Chief Pat O’Donnell, the Erris fisherman, told a story that was like an episode from an epic film of the seas as he described the standoff when he and his sons in their crab-boats challenged Shell’s enormous pipelayer “Solitaire.” This leviathan, or rather, this floating industrial installation, all girders and derricks and overhanging bridges, aided and abetted by the Gardaí in inflatables and the Navy in an ominous gunboat, was unable to do anything in Broadhaven Bay but glower. The Chief affirmed his legal right to position his boat above his crab-pots, his day-to-day livelihood, and denied the right of Shell’s technicians to move him off them. Once |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11Thank you Shell to Sea, for your enduring courage, organisation and example. This matter concerns more than a little 'acceptable sleaze' (which people accept too readily from their elected representatives!!) - it's about the theft of the nation's resources from its own people, and contempt for the safety and human rights of those people, particularly those with the wit and heart to resist this rotten project.
Please make the petition accessible asap; thanks. Good work from Galway meeting.
We are trying to get the petition on-line so that it will be accessible to everyone to download or to pass it on via links, etc. Our hearts are stronger than our technology at the moment, so we would be grateful if there is anyone out there who could help us with information as to the most effective way of doing this. Anyone in the Galway area who would be free on Wednesday 26 Nov, at 8pm, would be welcome to come to a meeting at 10 St Bridget's Place Lower (near Woodquay, in the cul-de-sac behind Argos & Lidl); or email me at margaretta@iol.ie
Please make sure to get clear advertisements for websites :corribsos.com and mayogasinfo.com
on all paperwork, leaflets, car stickers, petitions and banners etc.
"..corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places.."
Love and Solidarity
Martina
where can we send the signatures to? What address?
What kind of consequences would such a petition have, I mean in terms of results? And how many names are required to provoke a reaction? I believe that there are vast numbers of people who would be willing to sign their support.
Anyways, get them out and lets get goin.......
Your idea regarding an on-line petition seems really good to me, and you may wish to consider http://www.petitionspot.com web site as a possible answer to your request for information on how to go about starting up on on-line petition.
For a sample of how the www.petition.com site works, which relates to the Turoe Stone (County Galway), please see at http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/TuroeStone (which is referred to at http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84679 ).
Related link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Turoe+Stone%2C+Sup...f&oq=
Surely not an on-line petition???
What is that going to achieve? Except to further exasperate people who already know what's going on and would sign in an instant anyway? Who ever gave a damn about on-line petitions except those that know about them? The reasons why are obvious.....
Depending on what physical results are possible, surely its better to get this out on the streets, with christmas shoppers and pissed off protesters, you want maximum opportunity to get people 'personally' involved......
even a real world petition is a waste of time and resources
Online, offline, national & international, let people make their opinion known that SHell's & the Garda's violent tactics can't force through this dangerous, unwanted project.
Hear ! Hear!
"Now your threshing" Chrissie.