Rossport Residents Reflect On Resistance.

By: 
Rashers Tierney - Rabble.ie
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Local resident Fritz Schult and members of the Garda Public Order Unit close to Bellanaboy Bridge in Co Mayo, during protests against Shell’s inland refinery in north Mayo, November 2007. Photograph: William Hederman

An upcoming exhibition of photography and oral testimony sets out to probe the Corrib gas dispute. It’s organised around the question “If I Could Say One Thing To Other Communities…” and features Rossport residents delivering sage like advice. Rashers Tierney previewed the panels and caught up with some of the organisers.

Posted Date: 
28 January 2015
Link: 

http://www.rabble.ie/2015/01/27/rossport-residents-reflect-on-resistance/

How Police Brutality Brought Gas Flares to a Peaceful Irish Fishing Village

By: 
Norma Costello - Vice

Rossport lies on Ireland's wild Atlantic coast – a beautiful, unassuming fishing village in County Mayo, it has the misfortune of resting next to the country's hidden goldmine: the Corrib Gas Field.

Over more than a decade, the traditional, rural community has become synonymous with protest, as it resists the attempts of Shell to exploit fossil fuels in one of Ireland's environmentally protected areas. The company wants to extract the gas and that has meant building the longest gas pipeline tunnel in Europe and a processing plant in the picture-postcard farming area.

Posted Date: 
24 January 2015
Link: 

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/rossport-gas-exploitation-protests-209

If I could say one thing to other communities...

By: 
Comhlámh


Experiences of challenging the Corrib Gas project, Co Mayo
Friday 30th January 2015,7pm.
Comhlamh, 12 Parliament St.

After 14 years of challenging the oil and gas industry in north Mayo, what knowledge does the community there have to share? What questions might other communities have and how might they benefit from the experiences of those standing up to Shell and the State?

A four-year research project (2010-2014) in the parish of Kilcommon, northwest Mayo, sought to identify and share useful knowledge from the experiences of challenging the Corrib Gas project. This has been used to create an exhibition in which people respond to the question: If you could say one thing to other communities facing an unsafe development planned for their area, what would it be?

Posted Date: 
20 January 2015
Link: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/641362102640266/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_stor...

Protest works – if it breaks rules

By: 
William Hederman - Irish Times

The water-charge demonstrations have worked because of civil disobedience. When people break the rules of protest they force governments to act

Protest is about forcing change rather than asking for change. Illustration: Dearbhla Kelly

Protest is about forcing change rather than asking for change. Illustration: Dearbhla Kelly

 

‘I don’t normally go to protests” is a common remark in the kind of vox pop you might have read about the recent anti-water-charge marches. That people feel the need to clarify this is partly informed by a sense that there is something inherently wrong with being “a protester”, as opposed to simply taking part in this protest. A couple of years ago one of the founders of a campaign against plans to drill for oil in Dublin Bay told me: “We’re not protesters. We’re concerned residents.”

This reluctance to identify as a protester is odd, as to protest, in its various forms, is one of the most valuable social acts. Had there been no protest in the past we would surely live today under some form of feudal slavery.

Posted Date: 
18 December 2014
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/protest-works-if-it-breaks...

Izzy to Remain in Prison for Christmas

By: 
Shell to Sea

Shell to Sea activist Izzy Ní Ghraidm, in State custody since September, has been refused 'temporary release' for the Christmas period.

 

Izzy 'at work' on a Shell truck near Aughoose, County Mayo.

 

Ní Ghraidm was jailed for five months last September on charges relating to the obstruction of Shell contractors at the oil giant's controversial work sites along the Sruwadddacon estuary. At this time of year it is standard practice to offer low-security prisoners the option of spending a period of time at home on 'temporary release' which involves signing on at a Garda station once a day and checking in at the prison once a week. Ní Ghraidm was encouraged by prison wardens to apply for the scheme however when she did her request was refused.

As Izzy will now be spending the Christmas period in prison, Shell to Sea urges its supporters to show their solidarity by to writing her.

 

Letters & messages of support can be sent to

Izzy Ní Ghraidm,
Dochas Centre
Mountjoy Prison
North Circular Road
Dublin

 

Posted Date: 
16 December 2014
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