New Corrib Gas Documentary

by Revolt Video Collective

This video represents the many people not given a voice in the mainstream media.

They have been denied a voice mainly because of their dissenting views about the Corrib gas project in its current form.

There are interviews with many people who have suffered both personally and financially for daring to oppose the oil and gas industry.

This industry has been supported by the various intimidatory and violent methods used by the Garda.

The mainstream media has consistently misrepresented the facts, and has failed to report human rights abuses taking place in Mayo.

It has instead tried to demonise anybody who goes against their neo-liberal view-point on how Ireland should be organized and structured.

Most of the interviews were filmed over the last month.

Thanks to all of the people who generously gave up their time and energy to make this no budget documentary.

This is the first part of an ongoing documentary about the Corrib Gas Project.

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Shell to Sea

Shell Ireland - Working with our neighbours

Successful Shell To Sea Benefit held in Derry

On behalf of Derry MAOR, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the management and staff of Sandino’s Café Bar for their kind and exceptional help and assistance in making possible the recent Punk benefit night to highlight the ongoing Shell to Sea campaign in North West Mayo.

In doing so, we would like to extend our appreciation to the bands for their support and talent from The Lobotomies, Axis Of, Death Warrant and Anti -State who without their energy and commitment such an enjoyable evening itself would not have been possible for the Derry public who turned out to express genuine solidarity with the ‘Sea To Sea’ Campaign.

This event helped create greater awareness and knowledge of a multinational company known worldwide for having destroyed entire communities; incite government corruption and profoundly damaging protected ecosystems from the continents of Africa and America to the shores of this country and more specific the west coast of Mayo.

With the aid of the Irish administration, such multinational Oil companies have attempted to impose their might on the people of North West Mayo for the last 7 years.

By doing so, they have torn apart entire communities by ignoring their overall human rights and concerns. Not to mention threatening their health and safety by bribing both neighbours and politicians alike, with the confiscation and illegal occupation of their lands, all this with the protection of private security firms as An Garda Síochána at the cost of over 10 million euro.

In closing, we would again call upon everyone in locally throughout the North West to Mobilise, Act, Overcome and Reclaim our rights to our country’s own natural resources as it is the belief of MAOR that this is just the beginning.

UPCOMING EVENTS

‘Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will’.
Fredrick Douglass 1819 - 1895, former slave, abolitonist, author, reformer, political activist

Upcoming events
24th to 26th October : AFRI Hedge School 2008

• Pipelines and Profits: People Under Pressure


• Film screening Friday 24th at 8.30pm


• Conference sessions Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th


• Registration 9.15am Saturday in Glenamoy Community Centre, Erris, Co Mayo


• Lifts can be arranged to Mayo, contact MAOR.
  

13th November : MAOR meeting in Carndonagh

• Carndonagh Carnival office, 7pm Thursday 13th November


• Possible leafleting and information giving in Carndonagh prior to the meeting.


• Details to follow