Struggle in Rossport offers the 'threat of a good example' to all of us
The long running struggle in Erris (Rossport) against Shell's attempt to impose an experimental gas pipeline on the local community has erupted in recent days with repeated local direct actions against the compound Shell are trying to construct. Meanwhile the state, at the behest of Shell, continues to press vindictive prosecutions against local activists. Back in March http://www.indymedia.ie/article/91489, today the state returned for another pound of flesh and she was sentenced to another 7-10 days in Mountjoy prison. At very short notice over 20 activists from Dublin Shell to Sea gathered at the prison gates and showed their outrage by blocking the entrance of the prison van containing Maura in to Mountjoy for about twenty minutes.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Tuesday May 19th 2009.

Two guests called in on Free Radio Santa Cruz's Monday night Teacher show, Teachers 4 Class War: Jenn & JR, giving us updates from the trenches of teachers union negotiations, and from the fight for freedom and justice in the courts.