[imc-scotland-discussion] [imc-scotland-contact] Shell To Sea Feature Request

[mike92 at riseup.net]

i think your new article below would make a really good feature Mark, 
especially with the photos.  Would suggest you post it up on the site as 
a new article?  then if you alert us when you've done that, hopefully it 
will get the two votes needed to make it a feature!  Would be good to 
add the contact details for the camp etc of course

all the best mike

ps sorry if u are getting conflicting advice, i suppose indy scot doesnt 
have a party line!! :-)


mark meneely wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>        I tried emailing you as well about the S2S article on Friday, but
> the email bounced back. I hope paragraphs 2,3 and 4 read more like a news
> article!? I am planning to go to Erris next week for a
> couple of weeks and would like to publish a longer article on
> Indymedia Scotland, but it is not clear what you are actually
> looking for and I am being told different things by different
> people! I am going to try again and add two really good photos of the
> action on Sunday to the comments of the original S2S call-out, which I
> hope can be used as part of a news feature, but it doesn't seem to working
> so far.
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> Locals and people from the Rossport Solidarity Camp are calling on people
> to join in the direct action against the construction of Shell's
> onshore gas terminal in County Mayo, Ireland. Police continue to
> physically assault protesters and one protester has been hospitalised by
> masked men.
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> Construction work on the controversial project re-started on Wednesday
> 22nd April. Shell were attempting to build a compound where the proposed
> offshore gas pipeline will reach land.  The fencing of the compound was
> dismantled by protesters on Wednesday night at 11.30pm.  Their actions
> have remained non-violent, but the mainstream Irish media has tried to
> spread mis-information about this incident.
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> Willie Corduff, who was jailed for 94 days in 2005 for refusing Shell
> access to his land to lay the pipeline, was assaulted by a group of masked
> Shell security guards at around 3.30 am on Thursday morning. He had been
> lying under a Shell truck for several hours, preventing equipment being
> used and contesting the legality of the work.  Willie Corduff said, "I
> thought they were trying to kill me. They beat me until I stopped moving
> and I heard one of them say, 'Stop now lads, he's nearly finished.'"
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> On Sunday 26th April a united Erris community cut open Shell fences and
> again removed nets placed by Shell to prevent nesting by Sand Martins in a
> Special Area of Conservation where Shell plan to build their terminal. The
> nets were then delivered bach to Shell.
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>   Mark
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