Photos from last weekend's solidarity gathering in Erris
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Wednesday June 08, 2005 00:18
by Terry - Shell to Sea
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Photos of the preparations for, and workshops and tours in the solidarity gathering in Erris last weekend.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8The visitors to Rossport were taken on small group tours by local opponents of the Shell-Statoil pipeline, and shown the proposed pipeline route.
Bitchin' Kitchen Collective take break from making lovely food to visit the Corduff farm, one of the targets of the Shell-Statoil pipeline.
Tour at the Shell compound
Rock on!
Willie Corduff explaining issues
More....
Italian road sign at compound, note lack of Gaelic signs in Gaeltacht
The water in the bottle is from the estuary, with a contamination from "unknown source"
Piped water at the camp
Four green fields in a field
On Sunday a parley took place on what to do next, this involved people from Tyrone, Fermanagh, Mayo, Kildare, Armagh, London, Galway, Cork, Clare, Westmeath, Tipperary, Dublin, Wicklow, and other places too numerous to mention.
Micheal O'Seighin, retired school teacher, noted local historian, sean-nos singer, campaigner against the Shell-Statoil assault on Erris, gives talk even longer than his CV.
Micheal's talk was on the history of the area from the ice age to the present.
......last lot....
Field Kitchen
Dunes at Glengad
Pier at Rossport
loved to have been up but couldent,
Solidarity Gathering in Rossport, Co.Mayo
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70022
Programme and Travel Information for Solidarity Gathering in Erris, Co.Mayo
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69859&results_offset=30
great photo report, hope to get a few written reports too
all the best
dunk
Twas probably two hundred at it, surely there's a few?
The Rape of the Republics Gas reserves, is little short of Treason and a betrayal of our Childrens Inheritance ,our Politicians should be Ashamed of themselves, not one voice , not one note of discord the sound of the people is Deafening. Flynn O Flynn
The Rape of the Republics Gas reserves, is little short of Treason and a betrayal of our Childrens Inheritance ,our Politicians should be Ashamed of themselves, not one voice , not one note of discord the sound of the people is Deafening. Flynn O Flynn
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