Shell Station Blockade in D.11
national |
environment |
news report 
Tuesday July 12, 2005 21:40
by EW - ISN
irishsocialistnetwork at dublin dot ie
Supporters of the Rossport 5 blockaded the Shell Station on Glasnevin Avenue, ballymun, today, in a protest organised by the Finglas branch of the Irish Socialist Network. The protest was held between 6pm and 7pm to coordinate with many similar solidarity protests being organised throughout the city. Amongst those involved were three members of the Finglas Anti-Bin Tax Campaign who served two weeks in jail in 2003 for defying a court injunction.
The Irish Socialist Network took this small action to show solidarity with the jailed men. Once again our loaded legal system takes the side of the wealthy and powerful. Like the Bin Tax jailing, the imprisonment of these ordinary people is aimed at intimidating a whole community into silence. The real crime is not their actions in defense of their community but the robbery of our natural resources by Shell and other multinationals. Many countries have shown what can be done when oil/gas resources are in public ownership: Norway (whose state company Statoil, ironically, is part of the Corrib consortium) where the profits of these resources have been used to build a very high standard of living and Venezuela where the left wing government has started a process of using oil profits to alleviate poverty and fund major social programmes.
Free the Rossport 5!
For further information see http://www.corribsos.com/
