PRC-UTE
5th December 2008, 11:29
Prisoners Solidarity Christmas Trees
DERRY
The Irish Republican Forum For Unity wish to announce that we will be erecting a prisoners solidarity Christmas tree at the junction of William Street and Rossville Street on Thursday 11th December at 8pm.
December is traditionally a referred to as Prisoners Month and this year is particularly poignant given that there currently exists upwards of one hundred republican pows incarcerated in various prisons in Ireland and abroad. A number of these prisoners are from the Derry and Strabane areas. There has been an upsurge in the campaign by the authorities north and south of the border to imprison republicans by any means at their disposal and a large proportion of those currently sentenced or awaiting trial have been charged with membership of what they term an "illegal" organisation with little or no evidence other than the word of senior Garda or PSNI personel.
The Forum for Unity is comprised of the IRSP, 32CSM, Republican Network for Unity and various independent republicans and this is a joint project between all of those. The Christmas tree will display the names of all the republican POWs, regardless of political affiliation, and will be formally unveiled by some relatives of current prisoners. We would call on all republicans, regardless of political affiliation to turn up and support this project and to send solitarity to the prisoners and their families and to send a message that the prisoners will be in our thoughts this Christmas.
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BELFAST
The Republican Network for Unity along with the IRSP and the 32csm will be turning on the lights of a christmas tree @ the site of the old A/town barracks this Sunday night 7th December in support of ALL Irish republican prisoners still in prison @ this time of the year. Contact has also been made with RSF and the families of afew PIRA alaigned prisoners to attend also. We would ask ALL former pows and supporters of Irish pows to come along on the night and support this worthy cause.
DERRY
The Irish Republican Forum For Unity wish to announce that we will be erecting a prisoners solidarity Christmas tree at the junction of William Street and Rossville Street on Thursday 11th December at 8pm.
December is traditionally a referred to as Prisoners Month and this year is particularly poignant given that there currently exists upwards of one hundred republican pows incarcerated in various prisons in Ireland and abroad. A number of these prisoners are from the Derry and Strabane areas. There has been an upsurge in the campaign by the authorities north and south of the border to imprison republicans by any means at their disposal and a large proportion of those currently sentenced or awaiting trial have been charged with membership of what they term an "illegal" organisation with little or no evidence other than the word of senior Garda or PSNI personel.
The Forum for Unity is comprised of the IRSP, 32CSM, Republican Network for Unity and various independent republicans and this is a joint project between all of those. The Christmas tree will display the names of all the republican POWs, regardless of political affiliation, and will be formally unveiled by some relatives of current prisoners. We would call on all republicans, regardless of political affiliation to turn up and support this project and to send solitarity to the prisoners and their families and to send a message that the prisoners will be in our thoughts this Christmas.
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BELFAST
The Republican Network for Unity along with the IRSP and the 32csm will be turning on the lights of a christmas tree @ the site of the old A/town barracks this Sunday night 7th December in support of ALL Irish republican prisoners still in prison @ this time of the year. Contact has also been made with RSF and the families of afew PIRA alaigned prisoners to attend also. We would ask ALL former pows and supporters of Irish pows to come along on the night and support this worthy cause.