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Solidarity for Afghan migrants in Belfast
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Wednesday May 17, 2006 19:41 by interfere - antiwar/ARN interfere at tiscali dot it
Belfast Solidarity picket for Afghans in hunger strike meets with Irish government officials Today in Belfast (Wednesday May 17th, 2006), a picket in Solidarity |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Report of the picket is avaliable here!
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76063
Well done!
Interesting question though might now be raised as the civil service begin to "yes minister!" style glance out the window cringing in various departments down south in Dublin -
Which department bears or will bear responsibility?
When these men applied for asylum it was Mc dowell's patch. When they were carried out of the cathedral to hospital during their first water fast , they were on Mary Harney's patch and even merited attention from the Taoiseach's patch "coz their first water fast was like serious cliché time", whilst of course Bertie's brother's department of foreign affairs is the one which decided, decides and ahem will go on fudging the state of "war / peace" in Afghanistan and is the one which has to try and contain the imminent solidarity protests and internationalisation of Irish migrant protests globally, & now thanks to our solidarity activists of Belfast the memo goes through another department ( & we presume coz we're grown ups the monitoring services of the spies for which Ulster is so renowned). Of course this wouldn't have happened if De Valera had backed the building of a catholic cathedral for a catholic city. It is all so silly, bit like the BBC mulling over the categorisation of this story for the last week, would it go in "northern ireland" (where most anglicans represented by St Pat's live) or "europe"? Interestingly 6 million Afghanis for reasons you'd best get explanations from either Bertie Ahern's brother's department or Mr Blair, no longer live in Afghanistan but in neighbouring Pakistan. & only 2 million of them so far have permission to be there, but Pakistan doesn't want to deport them back, just in case one of them is osama bin laden in a cunning disguise . I wonder how many of them are blind cripples? hmmmmmmm. I wonder how many people with disabilities do the PD departments of justice and health deport?
Interestingly enough most of us, and certainly most of the Irish government can / could put up with hunger strike for quite a few weeks. Once upon a time fasting was thought to be good for the soul....
Go to the scales now! as long as you're not diabetic (like one of the Cathedral protesters) and already underweight (like three of the Cathedral protesters) you too (U2) could go on hunger strike. We could as a nation move down the obesity charts (Mary Harney's department) & fight the body fascism of size-ism and become associated with "hunger strikes" globally and do something more meaningful for Irish health than giving up smoking............ hey we could even pretend we were doing it for the poor starving babies in Afghanitan, Africa, Albania, Algeria, b- ,c- ,d- ,e- ,f- ,g- ,h- ....
& on...
we're only starting
The above report seems to imply that the ARN organised this picket and Organise! merely turned up to support it.
While the author of the report was alerted to the picket due to the ARNs welcome contribution to the publicising of the event this wasn't an ARN organised picket and I'd just like to clarify that. Of course Organise! want such events to be as broad based and inclusive as possible and are glad to have been part of an action in solidarity with the hunger strikers that included ourselves, the Socialist Party, Socialist Youth, people associated with the ARN and a number of other individuals.
Thanks to all who organized and took part in this action. Cross-border solidarity is so important.
It's great that our Irish Government are being told in Belfast that their handling of asylum seekers in this neck of the woods is so inhuman.
Thanks for a brilliant report
I do not think the above author was trying to be 'revisionist in any way - indeed it was I who suggested for the comrade to go into the 'meeting' rather that I.
But just for the record -
Yep the picket was organised by Organise! and it was also Organise members in the ARN and not the ARN SG who publicised it within ' all various Networks. As stated, it was important to do, given that nothing was being done - by way of Solidarity in Belfast, more especially as the issue was and is getting grave.
So Organise! decided to take an essential initiative.
What is more important though - is that people are contacted for tomorrows solidarity support - This at City hall at 4pm - Spread the word