City Strolls - events - meetings
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
The Annexe
The Annexe, Stewartville Street, Partick, Glasgow. Meet the Rossport campaigners from Mayo
The Rossport Solidarity Camp in Mayo, Ireland was set up as local residents opposed Shell's plan to build an unprecedented high pressure gas pipeline through the hamlet of Rossport, on the coastline of north-west Mayo, Ireland. Five of these local activists, aka The Rossport Five, were subsequently
imprisoned for refusing to obey a court order forbidding them to deny
contractors hired by Shell access to their farms and those of their
neighbours. After 3 months in prison, they were released when Shell asked
that the court order be lifted. The struggle has won significant victories in
securing their release, and in preventing Shell from building the development
this year, as they had planned to do, but the battle is far from over...
(from Indymedia)
For more information see http://www.struggle.ws/rsc/
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Joi
nt Action against the M74
JAM74, PO Box 3751, Glasgow, G42 8AL
email: info@jam74.org
web: www.jam74.org
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Bob, 10:08
