Three days of action against Shell

Decem­ber 13, 2011

Pro­test­ers give Shell an ear­ly Christ­mas present

Decem­ber 13, 2011

Pro­test­ers give Shell an ear­ly Christ­mas present

The Shell to Sea cam­paign is still run­ning strong 11 years after the incep­tion of the Cor­rib gas project. Every­day peo­ple are becom­ing aware of the peo­ple’s strug­gle against Shell, but still more are need­ed to come and see for them­selves and save our coun­try from the glob­al cor­po­rate takeover.

On Fri­day 9th of Decem­ber, Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Cam­paign [http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org/] con­tin­ued with the locals’ protest slow­ing down Shel­l’s work, spir­its were high and peo­ple were pleased with the action despite the Chief’s legal judge­ment [http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101060] peo­ple still braced the cold con­di­tions to con­tin­ue the protest.

On Sat­ur­day the 10th a Day Of Action com­menced with groups of peo­ple from all over the coun­try com­ing out to sup­port the Shell to Sea cam­paign. Peo­ple from the Occu­py camps [http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100863] in Gal­way, Dublin and Cork came to protest Shel­l’s occu­pa­tion of Erris. Pro­test­ers stood out­side the com­pound at Aghoos for 2 hours pre­vent­ing any work from start­ing. The action was a suc­cess and no Gar­da pres­ence was noticed.

On Mon­day 12th a spon­ta­neous action hap­pened at the refin­ery site at Bal­linaboy with 15 pro­test­ers from var­i­ous parts of the coun­try man­ag­ing to stop up to 12 trucks simul­ta­ne­ous­ly for an hour, no arrests were made, the small Gar­da pres­ence were no match for the swift­ness and brav­ery of the pro­test­ers. The only casu­al­ty was a bike unlaw­ful­ly con­fis­cat­ed by the Gar­da.

On Tues­day 13th the reg­u­lar protest took place at the Bal­linaboy com­pound. Around 15 pro­test­ers were met with an equal num­ber of Gar­dai who pre­vent­ed peo­ple walk­ing on the road. The right to peace­ful protest was met with the threat of arrest. Peo­ple still man­aged to stop 7 trucks for 40 min­utes. Strong cold winds and hail, com­bined with the pro­test­ers, stopped Shell doing any work on the Tues­day.

Through the inter­net and Occu­py groups in var­i­ous Irish cities there is an out­let for infor­ma­tion of upcom­ing actions and events. Jan­u­ary 13th is the next Day Of Action; all are wel­come to come and change our nation’s his­to­ry.