Irish Anti-Shell activists - speaking tour and benefit party
London Rising Tide | 01.11.2005 11:20 | Rossport Solidarity | Ecology | London
Irish activists will be touring the UK during November to increase awareness of the struggle to prevent the giant Shell Consortium from building a dangerous, raw gas pipeline and refinery on unstable bog land in County Mayo.
The pipeline and refinery raise serious public health and safety issues and will devastate remote conservation areas on the north west coast of Ireland.
There are two events coming up in London where you can find out more and get involved with the UK solidarity campaign.:
Rampart Street social centre will be hosting a benefit gig on Saturday Nov 12th, 7.30pm 'til 2am, with all proceeds to the Irish campaign. The evening kicks off with a talk given by Mayo speakers, films, Q&A/discussion followed by benefit party 'til late with veggie cafe, bar, live music & DJ's. Check www.rampart.co.nr for further details coming soon. The evening will also be remembering the 10th anniversary of executed anti-Shell activists Ken Saro-Wiwa and his 8 colleagues in Nigeria, 1995. (www.remembersarowiwa.com)
Date: November 12th, 7.30 PM til late
Place: 17 Rampart Street, London E1 (off Commerical Road)
Nearest tube: Whitechapel
Phone: 07050 618445
On November 17th, the activists will be hosted by London Rising Tide (www.londonrisingtide.org.uk). The evening begins at 7.30pm with an introduction to London Rising Tide, then a talk about the struggle against Shell by the Mayo activists with films, Q&A/discussion, followed by a social and bar.
Date: November 17th, 7.30 PM
Place: LARC, 62 Fieldgate St, London E1.
Nearest tubes: Whitechapel/Aldgate East
Phone: 020 7377 9088
There are two events coming up in London where you can find out more and get involved with the UK solidarity campaign.:
Rampart Street social centre will be hosting a benefit gig on Saturday Nov 12th, 7.30pm 'til 2am, with all proceeds to the Irish campaign. The evening kicks off with a talk given by Mayo speakers, films, Q&A/discussion followed by benefit party 'til late with veggie cafe, bar, live music & DJ's. Check www.rampart.co.nr for further details coming soon. The evening will also be remembering the 10th anniversary of executed anti-Shell activists Ken Saro-Wiwa and his 8 colleagues in Nigeria, 1995. (www.remembersarowiwa.com)
Date: November 12th, 7.30 PM til late
Place: 17 Rampart Street, London E1 (off Commerical Road)
Nearest tube: Whitechapel
Phone: 07050 618445
On November 17th, the activists will be hosted by London Rising Tide (www.londonrisingtide.org.uk). The evening begins at 7.30pm with an introduction to London Rising Tide, then a talk about the struggle against Shell by the Mayo activists with films, Q&A/discussion, followed by a social and bar.
Date: November 17th, 7.30 PM
Place: LARC, 62 Fieldgate St, London E1.
Nearest tubes: Whitechapel/Aldgate East
Phone: 020 7377 9088
London Rising Tide
e-mail:
london@risingtide.org.uk
Homepage:
http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk
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02.11.2005 10:03
Rossport Solidarity Camp speaking tour
Oil multinational Shell plans to bring untreated natural gas through an
experimental pipeline to an onshore refinery near Rossport in County Mayo.
Local people are opposing the development, concerned that the pipeline,
running within 70m of houses, is unsafe, and that the refinery will pollute
water supplies and fishing grounds This summer, the local campaign has been
supported by a protest camp of Irish and international direct activists.
The campaign against the pipeline won international attention after five
local landowners, aka 'The Rossport Five', were jailed for refusing to obey
an injunction forbidding them from preventing Shell contractors access to
their land. After 3 months in prison, they were released when Shell lifted
the injunction in September.
Shell's building work has been stopped for most of this year by continual
picketing of construction sites and a variety of solidarity actions across
Ireland and beyond, but the battle is far from over. As the Rossport Five
said on their release, 'The campaign has now begun in earnest.'
Two participants in Rossport Solidarity Camp will be speaking about the
campaign in Oxford on November 9th, one of them will also be speaking about
Cork Harbour Action Group's struggle against the construction of an
incinerator in County Cork.
When: Wednesday 9th November 7.30pm
Where: Oxford Action Resource Centre (OARC) – upstairs at East Oxford
Community Centre, Cowley Road (corner of Princes Street)
More info: www.shelltosea.com
Oxford contact:
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