Shell due to restart work in Ireland soon

Shell will attempt to lay the off­shore pipe this Spring and prepa­ra­tion work both on land and at sea is due to start in the next few weeks. We are deter­mined to stop this prepa­ra­tion work and so peo­ple are need­ed from mid-March — May.
We expect Shell to begin putting up secu­ri­ty fences and build­ing the com­pound very soon, pos­si­bly in the next few weeks…
get on our call out list: rossportsolidaritycamp-subscribe@lists.riseup.net and check www.indymedia.ie/mayo for updates

The Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp always wel­comes com­mit­ted & moti­vat­ed peo­ple to get more involved in the cam­paign, what­ev­er your expe­ri­ence or skills.
Come over & help out with actions, sup­port, house­keep­ing, equip­ment main­te­nance, PR, office work, media work, gar­den­ing etc

Please con­sid­er doing one of the fol­low­ing:
•Come vis­it Mayo:
You would be more than wel­come to stay at the camp. Find direc­tions here: http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.110mb.com/directions.html
There are jobs for every­one to do from mak­ing ban­ners, doing actions or start­ing this year’s gar­den. There real­ly was a good vibe at the camp last autumn and we’re hop­ing for more of the same this time round. Con­tact the camp if you’re com­ing or if you have any ques­tions.

•Take action at Home
There’s a load than can be done from wher­ev­er you are. See http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.110mb.com/support.html for some sug­ges­tions.
sol­i­dar­i­ty actions, info stalls, show­ing the cam­paign films, donate to the cam­paign, think of ideas for actions, put on a fundrais­er…
If you are inter­est­ed in help­ing to do research work about the new onshore pipeline appli­ca­tion please email us.

Win­ter update
Dur­ing the win­ter many court cas­es have been pro­ceed­ing against those who object local­ly, for a vari­ety of charges, from traf­fic offences, pub­lic order breach­es to Gar­da assaults. It goes with­out say­ing that no Gar­dai have been pros­e­cut­ed for their vicious assaults to date. While some fines and sus­pend­ed sen­tences have been hand­ed down, and Gar­dai have per­jured them­selves on the stand and the judges have lapped it up, no one has been found guilty of Gar­da assault to date (some cas­es had to be appealed to secure this). There are still many Shell to Sea cas­es before the courts, from local peo­ple refus­ing to bend to the cor­rupt will of Shell and the state. They need help to con­tin­ue resist­ing!

Shell have recent­ly put in plan­ning appli­ca­tions for the onshore sec­tion of the pipeline which can be seen here www.corribgaspipeline.com

The eco­nom­ic sit­u­a­tion has utter­ly changed and most peo­ple in the coun­try are seri­ous­ly ques­tion­ing cor­po­rate pow­er and gov­ern­ment sub­servience to that pow­er. Recent­ly even the Gar­daí took to the streets to oppose gov­ern­ment pol­i­cy (and no one threw them off the road!!!).
We are in a lot more favourable times to try to get our mes­sage and points across than this time last year.
We can win but we need your sup­port!

For trav­el direc­tions, leaflets, more info about the cam­paign pls check out:
http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.110mb.com