Rossport latest & solidarity actions (Berlin, London

Shell to Sea activists board the Soli­taire
8.09.2008
This after­noon three Shell to Sea activists, one car­ry­ing the Tri­colour, board­ed the Soli­taire to hand deliv­er a let­ter of protest to the Cap­tain of the ship fol­low­ing his fail­ure to respond to pre­vi­ous com­mu­ni­ca­tion .

Shell to Sea activists board the Soli­taire
8.09.2008
This after­noon three Shell to Sea activists, one car­ry­ing the Tri­colour, board­ed the Soli­taire to hand deliv­er a let­ter of protest to the Cap­tain of the ship fol­low­ing his fail­ure to respond to pre­vi­ous com­mu­ni­ca­tion .

The three men were part of a crew of five Shell to Sea activists in four ves­sels (James Con­nol­ly, Jim Larkin, Bob­by Sands and Geron­i­mo), who pad­dled out to the Soli­taire in Done­gal Bay this morn­ing.

Rep­re­sent­ing the views of many from the com­mu­ni­ties affect­ed by the Cor­rib gas project, the let­ter asks the Cap­tain of the Soli­taire to recon­sid­er his, and the ship’s, par­tic­i­pa­tion in the devel­op­ment.

The Cap­tain was also invit­ed to Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty camp for din­ner to give him the oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet with the local com­mu­ni­ty affect­ed by the Cor­rib gas project and to hear their con­cerns.

Today’s board­ing is just one of many recent marine based actions car­ried out by Shell to Sea . Cam­paign­ers have vowed to pre­vent the Soli­taire from car­ry­ing out pipeline work in Broad­haven Bay.

Pro­tes­tor John O Con­nell at Killy­begs stat­ed, “Resis­tance to the Cor­rib gas project will con­tin­ue. New marine activists are join­ing us every day and if nec­es­sary we will block­ade both Killy­begs Har­bor and Broad­haven Bay to stop ves­sels involved in the work. There is no con­sent for Shell’s project and it will not be com­plet­ed.”

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On Sun­day 7th Sep­tem­ber, the doors of the Irish Embassy in Berlin were glued shut and graf­fi­ti was left say­ing “Shell Out of Ross­port” and “No Pipeline”. This action was tak­en in sol­i­dar­i­ty with those fight­ing the lay­ing of the pipeline in Ross­port and those fight­ing the destruc­tion of life by gov­ern­ments and cor­po­ra­tions every­where.

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Rythms of Resis­tance are going to play out­side the Irish embassy at 3.30 this
Wednes­day (10th) in sup­port of our friends in Mayo. If you can come along to 17 Grosvenor Place,
Lon­don, SW1X 7HR, it would be great.