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| Audio from Sellafield Meltdown Drill (Dublin 09-Mar-02) national | miscellaneous | news report  Saturday March 09, 2002 18:41 by Daithi Mac Sithigh macsithd at tcd dot ie Speeches and interviews recorded at the drill These clips were recorded at Globalise Resistance's "nuclear meltdown drill" in Dublin earlier this afternoon. Windows Media format (MP3 to follow later). Also this evening, a package of "highlights" from the demonstration (sirens and all) will be available here. This afternoon in Dublin, shoppers, tourists and other members of the public were greeted by men and women in white suits, blowing sirens, whistles and horns, running through the streets, and shouting about "meltdown" and "disaster". The "drill" was organised by Globalise Resistance, and supported by student and environmental groups. These audio clips will give you some background on the protest and the anti-nuclear movement in Ireland. (1) Rory Hearne speaks about the reasons for calling this demonstration. http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~daithi/imc/rory1.wma (2) Rory again, answering the question "Do you think that the environmentalist movement is a part of a broader anti-capitalist movement?" http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~daithi/imc/rory2.wma (3) Outside the Dáil (Ireland's parliament), Joe Carolan of GR addresses the crowd, calling for Sellafield to be shut down. http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~daithi/imc/joe1.wma (4) Keith Corcoran, a student from Dundalk (on the east coast of Ireland) talks about the STAD campaign, a local group that has gone all the way to the European Court to fight Sellafield's expansion. http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~daithi/imc/keith1.wma (5) Keith discusses today's demonstration and his hopes for the future direction of the campaign http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~daithi/imc/keith2.wma
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