Rossport Direct Action Training Weekend — 25–26 June

Come up for a week­end of direct action train­ing, meet the com­mu­ni­ty and see this incred­i­ble place.

If you came up for the Par­ty Against the Pipe fes­ti­val, this is a great chance to get more involved in the cam­paign.

Come up for a week­end of direct action train­ing, meet the com­mu­ni­ty and see this incred­i­ble place.

If you came up for the Par­ty Against the Pipe fes­ti­val, this is a great chance to get more involved in the cam­paign.

If you have ever want­ed to take action and be part of the cam­paign, the time is now! All wel­come, open to com­plete begin­ners-no expe­ri­ence nec­es­sary. Please try to arrive by the evening of Fri­day 24th if pos­si­ble.

We are run­ning direct action train­ings here and around the coun­try for peo­ple who want to take part in safe and effec­tive protests. The train­ing is aimed at com­plete begin­ners, cov­er­ing your legal rights and dif­fer­ent meth­ods of protest­ing.

Get in touch if you would like us to give a direct action work­shop in your area.

Food will be cooked com­mu­nal­ly, dona­tions wel­come.

Accom­mo­da­tion is avail­able in the camp house or book in to the love­ly Kil­com­mon lodge hos­tel http://www.kilcommonlodge.ie

The Shell to Sea cam­paign has suc­cess­ful­ly used direct action for the last 11 years to frus­trate, delay and try to stop Shel­l’s destruc­tive project. We take direct action because the Gov­ern­ment has failed us and the author­i­ties that are sup­posed to pro­tect com­mu­ni­ties and the envi­ron­ment have refused to act. So we have no choice but to pro­tect it our­selves. We also take action to inspire oth­er com­mu­ni­ties to do the same. Whether it’s stop­ping Shell ille­gal­ly drilling in a Spe­cial Area of Con­ser­va­tion or block­ing the trucks car­ry­ing build­ing mate­ri­als for this exper­i­men­tal and dan­ger­ous project, using direct action works! So come along & get pre­pared…

Shel­l’s Cor­rib Gas Project is already decade late and 3 times over bud­get — impres­sive for a rur­al com­mu­ni­ty fight­ing one of the biggest multi­na­tion­als in the world!

There is a huge glob­al his­to­ry of direct action cam­paigns. Mar­tin Luther King and Gand­hi sym­bol­ise the most well known cam­paigns but there have been thou­sands of suc­cess­ful direct action cam­paigns in our his­to­ry. Direct action was used dur­ing the anti-war cam­paign at Shan­non air­port, in the civ­il rights march­es, dur­ing the amaz­ing anti-nuclear cam­paign at Can­sore Point and also to kick out dirty indus­tries such as Raytheon, Mer­rell Dow and Raybestos Man­hat­tan.

The Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp has guide­lines which state that all actions must be agreed by con­sen­sus at the camp. Direct action is used in par­al­lel with oth­er cam­paign­ing tools such as engag­ing in the plan­ning process, lob­by­ing, pub­lic meet­ings and tak­ing legal chal­lenges against Shell.

As Fred­er­ick Dou­glass, the US abo­li­tion­ist ora­tor said in 1857: “If there is no strug­gle there is no progress. Those who pro­fess to favor free­dom and yet depre­ci­ate agitation…want crops with­out plow­ing up the ground, they want rain with­out thun­der and light­en­ing. They want the ocean with­out the awful roar of its many waters…. Pow­er con­cedes noth­ing with­out a demand. It nev­er did and it nev­er will.”

http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org/content/direct-action-training-weekend-25–26th-june