Launch of new Shell to Sea leaflet for 2007 Dáil election

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Wednesday June 21, 2006 15:47 by Shell To Sea - Dublin Shell to Sea dublinshelltosea at gmail dot com 0876181620

TDs, activists, and members of the Rossport community will hand out leaflets at Leinster House

The Shell to Sea campaign has produced a new, glossy, large scale leaflet on the issues of the campaign to be distributed door-to-door in Dublin and other urban areas. The purpose of the leaflet is to highlight the campaign as an election issue, and make sure that people have the facts at hand when they are canvassed by government ministers over the summer months.

On Tuesday 27th June at lunchtime campaigners from Dublin and Rossport will be joined by supporters from political parties outside Leinster House, to hand out the new leaflets and draw attention to the campaign in the week of the first anniversary of the imprisonment of the Rossport Five.

Details: 1PM Tuesday 27/06 at the Kildare Street Entrance to Leinster House.

Bertie Ahern leaves Liberty Hall during the imprisonment of the Rossport Five. He was launching a biography of James Connolly.

Whatever people think of elections, it has to be admitted that they concentrate the minds of unpopular governments.

Sending out a leaflet around the country will raise the profile of the campaign and ensure that government TD's have to come clean on whether they support the scheme. That is, do they support the give-away terms of the deal which mean the Irish people will see no benefit from the huge reserves of oil and gas off our coasts? Do they think it's acceptable that the people of a residential area should have a dangerous, experimental pipeline scheme imposed on them, with the threat of prison if they protest?