Andropov
7th October 2009, 01:32
With the ongoing campaign for equal housing in North Belfast in which 83% of people on the housing list come from the Nationalist community and houses lie vacant on Unionist sides of the peace walls a recent NBCRA (North Belfast Civil Rights Assosciation) delegation went into the Unionist Working Class Estate Westlands to photograph vacant houses while Nationalist families are living in temporary hostels across the peace walls. They were confronted with this graffiti...
http://img97.imageshack.us/i/westland1.jpg/
BTW CYL stands for Cavehill Young Loyalists.
The NBCRA has even moved Catholic families in groups into Loyalist areas for their security as families would not move by themselves and after sustained attack by Sectarian Loyalist mobs these families moved out.
These are the now vacated houses of the families that fled Brown Street after sectarian intimidation.
http://img43.imageshack.us/i/brownst0002.jpg/
Now the Housing Committee will not move the peace lines into vacant Loyalist areas in North Belfast as Loyalist communities want to maintain "their territory" even if those empty houses remain unused during the chronic housing shortage in North Belfast, yet another example of the GFA entrenching sectarian politics at the expense of working class families.
If posters here have any further doubts as to the certain reactionary nature of much of the Occupied North I suggest you listen to this audio clip after the recent Racist Pogroms against a Roma community in Belfast.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/audio/2009/jun/18/roma-belfast-race-attack
http://img97.imageshack.us/i/westland1.jpg/
BTW CYL stands for Cavehill Young Loyalists.
The NBCRA has even moved Catholic families in groups into Loyalist areas for their security as families would not move by themselves and after sustained attack by Sectarian Loyalist mobs these families moved out.
These are the now vacated houses of the families that fled Brown Street after sectarian intimidation.
http://img43.imageshack.us/i/brownst0002.jpg/
Now the Housing Committee will not move the peace lines into vacant Loyalist areas in North Belfast as Loyalist communities want to maintain "their territory" even if those empty houses remain unused during the chronic housing shortage in North Belfast, yet another example of the GFA entrenching sectarian politics at the expense of working class families.
If posters here have any further doubts as to the certain reactionary nature of much of the Occupied North I suggest you listen to this audio clip after the recent Racist Pogroms against a Roma community in Belfast.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/audio/2009/jun/18/roma-belfast-race-attack