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National Ógra Shinn Féin Demilitarisation Weekend '05

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Wednesday October 05, 2005 20:25

by Barry McColgan - Ógra Shinn Féin

osf6county at yahoo dot com

Ógra Shinn Fein 4-5 James Street Omagh

omagh sinn féin 028 82 253040

Ógra Shinn Féin Organise For Freedom

National Demilitarisation Weekend
21 –23 October 2005
Omagh, County Tyrone

*To be Confirmed

Clar

Friday 21 October
-Sinn Féin Office, 4-5 James Street , Omagh

8.45pm: ‘The Prison Struggle’, talks from Former Republican Prisoners and video showing

Saturday 22 October
-Venue (TBC*)-

10.30am: Registration, Tea and Coffee
11am: Introduction from councillor Barry McElduff MLA
11.30am: Presentation from (ORDC) Omagh Resident’s Demilitarisation Committee and Workshop
12.45pm: Video Showing

1pm: Lunch

2pm: Keynote address by Leadership (speaker TBC*)
3pm: A Life in Struggle by Danny ‘Armalite and Ballot Box’ Morrison
4pm: International Struggle (speaker TBC*)

Function

10pm: Irish Night with music by The Irish Brigade

Sunday 23 October

1.30pm: Sponsored Walk 4 Irish Unity up Mullacairn Mountain
4pm: Demilitarisation Protest

The weekend will take place in Omagh, Co. Tyrone beginning on Friday 21 October and finishing on Sunday 23 October.

From the weekend we hope to once again make Demilitarisation an issue, which the Brits cannot ignore. During the weekend we will discuss and draw up a national Demilitarisation strategy for Ógra.

The West Tyrone ÓSF Demilitarisation Weekend has become an annual event, and this is the fourth in a line of successful weekends.
The weekend in the past has attracted international comrades and Ógra members from all over Ireland who feel strong about Demilitarisation. It has heightened the profile of the Demilitarisation campaign and has played its part in insuring that in August 2006 Omagh Brit Camp will be demilitarised.
The success of these weekends has not gone unnoticed and at 2003’s Demil weekend, West Tyrone ÓSF member Danny Turnbull was arrested by the RUC/PSNI and underwent a 9 month trial for taking pictures at a protest on the Weekend. This was a clear attempt to undermine ÓSF and stunt our growth, but in fact it has done the complete opposite, so this year turn out in numbers to weekend ’05 and show the Brits its time for them to leave!

Find out more or join Ógra Shinn Fein at the official Ógra website, www.osfbf.pro.ie