Oscailt"The Rule of Shell Law has to be implemented at Bellanaboy". - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.ACCOUNTABILITY: Violence & The Law - The Lie that is Bellanaboy.
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2006-11-12T16:26:52+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=79633http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifEvery man gotta right to decide his own destiny.http://www.indymedia.ie/article/79633#comment1757032006-11-12T16:26:52+00:00Revolutionary.And in this judgement there is no partiality.And in this judgement there is no partiality.I C C L Put out a statement.http://www.indymedia.ie/article/79633#comment1757082006-11-12T16:55:54+00:00Mick ButlerYou have it in one Niall. On the button, we need the notion of taking this stuff...You have it in one Niall. On the button, we need the notion of taking this stuff to the courts, national and if needs be international, to percolate, through to activists, names, numbers, times, dates, all ON THE RECORD. Otherwise it's going nowhere but backwards for the community and for the whole country. <br />
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Can anyone write up on this thread if they read a statement in any of the papers from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties ICCL, they put it out on Friday afternoon. I caught it at the end of a Dublin radio news bulletin re the actions of this so called police force in Mayo.<br />
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Bull by the hornshttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/79633#comment1757222006-11-12T17:56:04+00:00Seán RyanA very well put piece Niall, and from the heart too. That's the essence of Indym...A very well put piece Niall, and from the heart too. That's the essence of Indymedia, and it's the essence of patriotism. You are calling for this fight to happen within a framework that binds all and at the same time if used correctly, frees us all - the Constitution.<br />
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The Courts if used correctly can be a great equaliser - they turn us all into equal Citizens - if used correctly. By the term 'used correctly,' I mean, that the work done in them, be done openly and in view of the public. And that a record be taken of the proceedings and subsequently published, to be subsequently tried in the true Court - the Court of Public Opinion.<br />
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I'd be happy to help in any way that I can, to facilitate this procedure - gimme a shout, when you're in a position to.<br />
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It's time to put manners on the monkies - and it's already started - and you've had a large part to play in that too.<br />
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I hope your injuries, received on Friday, weren't too severe. I'd guess that the injury to your pride and honour, as a fellow Irishman was more severe, knowing that you're a hardy chap. I only hope that more citizens realise that the attack on yourself and the others on Friday was an attack on everything and everyone that is Irish, and that together, we can and that we will do something about it.<br />
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My thoughts are with ye.shame bertiehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/79633#comment1758072006-11-13T13:20:08+00:00A.V.FitzgeraldThe same night as Bertie's statement, UK'Channel 4's excellent programme 'Unrepo...The same night as Bertie's statement, UK'Channel 4's excellent programme 'Unreported World 'broadcast a feature on Shell and other oil companie's pollution and exploitation in Nigeria and the resistance to them. It was uncanny the similarities between the Nigerian presidents comments and Bertie's statement. <br />
You can get a synopsis or podcast of the programme at their website.Silent demonstration outside the Courtshttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/79633#comment1758232006-11-13T15:21:15+00:00FlynnWell done again Niall, the constitution is the Cotter Pin of the Whole Mechanism...Well done again Niall, the constitution is the Cotter Pin of the Whole Mechanism, enshrined in the Articles of the Council of Europe, seek advice from a French Republican Constitutional Lawyer, He will steer you through the European Laws , which are flying around like Confetti at the wedding of the Damned. A silent protest outside the Court,would send a strong message to those who are sitting inside it, Where you stand on Principle depends ,entirely on where you sit. Regards. Flynn O FlynnPress Statementhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/79633#comment1758572006-11-13T17:43:42+00:00ADMINShell to Sea press statement, call for solidarity day on Nov 24th and plans for ...Shell to Sea press statement, call for solidarity day on Nov 24th and plans for national rally Dec 2nd<br />
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<a href="http://indymedia.ie/article/79651" title="http://indymedia.ie/article/79651">http://indymedia.ie/article/79651</a>the garda threw me down a 10 foot bog water drainhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/79633#comment1759312006-11-14T06:04:23+00:00one of the men taken to hospitalAfter being hospitalized for 4 days, I have to go back in for 3 or 4 more days d...After being hospitalized for 4 days, I have to go back in for 3 or 4 more days due to injuries sustained by garda on Friday the 10th, injured back, I could not move my legs or feet for 3 days, no movement at all, tissue holden knee together is damaged to such a degree that I can't even walk, I just drag my legs with the crutches Thank god some one videoed the whole act of aggression against me . It was totally against the law of human rights, we'll be taking my case to the European high court.<br />
I was just taken photos of a garda punching a young girl in the face, when I was leaving to go up home, which when all of a sudden I was unlawfully grab and kicked and thrown down a deep drain, hopefully I be OK in a few weeks but that won't stop me from going back to the peaceful protest , even if I have to crawl, no one has the legal right to throw you down a unknow deep bog drain with tree branches sticking up every were. I would like to thank all those who helped and saved me , also the great s2s people who ask if I was still alive, sea you soon....sHELLtosea.News from South Durban & GroundWork.http://www.indymedia.ie/article/79633#comment1761152006-11-15T13:21:14+00:00NiallMembers of GroundWork & The South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA...Members of GroundWork & The South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) visited Mayo last Spring, to strenghten personal and political links in the chain network of communities around the world fighting Shell and Shell Governments. Desmond D'Sa outlines below about what they were doing on that fateful day, Friday November 10th 2006.<br />
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GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION HITS SHELL & BP (SAPREF) GATES IN SOUTH DURBAN – SOUTH AFRICA<br />
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Hundreds of local community members blocked the Shell & BP (SAPREF) gates in south Durban today. The day of action was to remind Shell of its collusion with the Nigerian Regime in 1995 in the murder of our comrade, Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 other Oginis. <br />
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Dennis Brutus, well known Anti-Apartheid fighter who campaigned vigorously against sports being played in abnormal society participated the protest. Dennis stated that: ‘As a close Academic friend of Ken, Shell must be held accountable for the murder of Ken and his colleagues.’<br />
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Terence Conway, a resident from Rossport (Ireland), challenging Shell in Ireland stated: ‘After going on a Toxic Tour in south Durban and seeing and hearing the impact these oil refineries have on the local communities, I go back with the knowledge that people in South Africa and all over the world are standing united legitimately so as one to fight Shell.’<br />
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Children from local schools stated that: ‘they were sick and tired of only smelling Shell’s pollution.<br />
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A memorandum was handed over to Shell & BP (SAPREF), PRO, Lora Rossler, who stated that the memorandum will be sent to their International Office in The Hague for comment and response. <br />
Memo below.<br />
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For further comment, please contact: Desmond D’Sa – 083 982 6939 / 031 461 1991<br />
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Handed to SHELL and BP Management in Durban South Africa <br />
Date: Friday 10th November 2006<br />
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NOTING <br />
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Shell’s abuses are recorded world wide in countries such as the Phillipines, Brazil, United States, Russia, Netherlands Antilles as well as Ireland, Nigeria and South Africa.<br />
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Some of theses human rights abuses include:<br />
The dumping of toxic waste poisoning wells that are impacting the health of workers and community members in Brazil, <br />
In the Philippines, Shell has manipulated local political bodies to allow the ongoing operation of a depot that poisons the surrounding air, water and soil, <br />
Shell has attempted to absolve itself from socio-economic problems and negative health impacts including respiratory problems from the operation of an obsolete oil refinery in the Netherlands Antilles,<br />
Shell has threatened to dramatically increase production of a refinery complex in Port Arthur, Texas, United States, which is known to be causing cardiovascular and respiratory damage to the community<br />
In Russia, Shell’s construction threatens an endangered whale population with extinction and damages hundreds of wild salmon rivers and fisheries that indigenous and other communities depend on.<br />
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OUR KEY CONCERNS:<br />
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DURBAN<br />
The Shell and BP Refinery (SAPREF) continues to emit toxic gases into the neighbouring community and continues to violate South African’s right to an environment that is not harmful to health and wellbeing.<br />
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SAPREF has not committed itself to an emissions reduction plans and strategies which will ensure that pollution reduction for the short and long term are considered.<br />
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SAPREF continues to violate maintenance workers right by employing them on a casual basis. <br />
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Local farmers who are neighbours of SAPREF have been threatened with evictions due to various expansions programs forward by ACSA and the Oil Companies in South Durban whose have been eyeing this prime piece of land..<br />
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NIGERIA<br />
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Eleven years ago Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists from Ogoni were executed for placing pressure on Shell and the Nigerian government because of the environmental devastation caused on their homeland. In spite of the outcry over their execution, the conditions of the communities living near Shell’s operations are shocking. Food security has been undermined and destroyed because of polluted lands and water which prevent the planting of crops and the catching of fish from the rivers. People’s health has been impacted by the continued flaring of natural gas close to people’s homes. The vast amounts of gas flaring that take place in Nigeria are not only the biggest in the world, but the practice has contributed more to greenhouse gas emissions than all other sources in sub-Saharan Africa combined.<br />
A Nigerian High Court ordered the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (Shell Nigeria) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) stop gas flaring in the Niger Delta, as gas flaring violates guaranteed constitutional rights to life and dignity. Nevertheless, Shell plans to continue flaring until 2009. <br />
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Shell has demonstrated a blatant disregard for the Nigerian legal system and courts, and continue to relentlessly breech the human rights of communities in Nigeria. <br />
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IRELAND<br />
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Shell plans to build a high- pressure raw gas pipeline to an onshore processing facility in Rossport, County Mayo, Ireland. In spite of community resistancde to building on their properties, the State granted Shell Compulsory Access Orders and Compulsory Purchase Orders, and power to have them enforced against the community. In refusing access to their lands by Shell personnel, five local men were sent to jail for 94 days at the request of Shell. <br />
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The community of Rossport is concerned about the unprecedented nature of the high-pressure raw gas pipeline, which is not only exempt from planning law, but exempt from Irish Health and Safety regulations. <br />
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WE DEMAND:<br />
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1. That in Durban, South Africa, Shell should develop and communicate a pollution reduction strategy with the representatives of the SDCEA and Groundwork who represent the local community within 6 months,. Further Shell’s recognition of the Community Liason Forum should cease immediately. <br />
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2. In Nigeria, Shell should cease working with the state immediately and see that human rights abuses against communities in the Niger Delta are stopped. That gas flaring is ceased immediately in accordance to the ruling of Nigeria’s courts and that a plan be put together within 3 months to clean up the many year’s pollution of rivers and soil and that this takes place in consultation with the people of the Niger Delta..<br />
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3. In Ireland, Shell should stop their development in the proposed sites for both refinery and pipeline and consult with the Irish People affected in a meaningful manner .Shell should stop their PR machinery and cease immediately to criminalize people’s right to peaceful protests.<br />
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GENERAL DEMAND<br />
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We the communities gathered here today at Shell’s[SAPREF] gates state the Senior Executives of the company take us seriously as failure to listen will result in further protest. <br />
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SIGNED BY SHELL [SAPREF] DATED SIGNED BY SDCEA/GROUNDWORK DATED <br />