Demo on Friday 17th at the Department of the Marine, Adelaide Road

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 15:11 by anarchaeologist - Shell to Sea Dublin

Remember the rip off!

Dublin Shell to Sea have organised a demo with a difference outside the Department of the Marine and Natural Resources on Adelaide Road this Friday.

As part of a Europe wide weekend of activities to draw attention to the opening of the Rossport Solidarity Camp, we're holding a picket outside the Department this Friday lunchtime to demonstrate to the Minister that the campaign extends to the leafy boulevards of central Dublin, right to his front door.

We're encouraging people to bring their bikes along to partake in an unusual but highly symbolic action. This will hopefully focus some minds on the emerging crisis facing those responsible for ripping off the people of Ireland and endangering the safety of the people of Erris.

The Camp has been established to accommodate those travelling to Rossport to prevent the construction of the pipeline and the refinery. It succeeded last year in blockading the Shell compounds and acting as an information point for those travelling to Erris.

We're saying to those concerned that the fight is not just taking place in Erris, it will extend to Dublin and beyond. It will continue until the Corrib gas field is processed at sea and the people of Ireland become the ultimate beneficiaries, not just a few crooked politicians and their multinational masters.

The demo will begin at 12.45 outside the Department, which is opposite the hospital on Adelaide Road. If you're coming from town, head down Leeson Street and take a right just before the canal. You can't miss it.