Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Public Protest 27/02/2010
A public protest in support of Colin Duffy will take place on Saturday the 27th February at 2PM O'Connell Street Dublin, All welcome.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Michael Campbell / Colin Duffy Protests February 13th
A protest outside the Lithuanian Embassy 47 Ailesbury Road, Ballsbridge will take place this Saturday 13th February at 1 o'clock for Michael Campbell
2.30pm a protest will be held to highlight Colin Duffy's case on O'Connell Street opposite the GPO. All Welcome
Friday, January 1, 2010
32CSM New Year Statement 2010
32 County Sovereignty Movement
New Year Statement 2010
We commend our activists for their dedication and hard work in pursuit of the republican goal in 2009. We commend all other republican activists for being true to their beliefs and for being generous and inventive in listening to the beliefs of others. 2009 was a year which witnessed that inventiveness being translated into political action which was widely recognised throughout the republican base. It represented the most potent expression of solidarity with imprisoned comrades. It is solidarity in action with those who were bereaved in the struggle. It is also the way forward for Irish republicanism.
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement has a clear vision for the year ahead. The reclamation of our sovereignty must take real form. We must give leadership to our communities to help them achieve this. Throughout Ireland communities have been betrayed by the institutions of faith, finance and state which have long purported to speak and act on their behalf. The abundance of trust placed in the integrity of individual leaders has proved misplaced. They have been left leaderless.
They have not, however, been left powerless. It is in recognition of this reality that the 32CSM will now engage with our communities. In a disciplined approach the 32CSM will liase directly with local communities to explore ways of reclaiming their sovereignty, and under these auspices, help them pursue their political and social objectives. We will focus our efforts in ensuring that all community activity will by default be a pursuit toward national sovereignty. Such a process will be a challenge to both states. It is a first step in filling the vacuum left by those who are now wholly subsumed into the apparatus of partition.
Communities so organised can become the template for national freedom. The republican objective is twofold; to secure our sovereign independence and to organise a just society within that independence. Like our republican forebears we can now enact our aspirations, we can involve our people with our beliefs in real and tangible terms. Republicanism cannot be detached from the people and the people cannot be detached from the strategies deployed to secure their freedom. We can only lead through democratic involvement with our communities.
Because it is a first step it must be taken with due diligence. We have prepared our arguments and are refining our position as mandated at our Ard Fheis. It will be democratic. It will be a learning process which will require discipline, patience and pragmatic political judgement. Republicans cannot interact at a distance. We need to create a new interface between ourselves and our people which will allow us to seek their mandate for our struggle. This mandate will not be measured by a gerrymandered vote. Its value will be in its democratic integrity and its sovereign credentials. For us the ballot box means more than just numbers. Democracy can only be returned to the Irish people when their national sovereignty is recognised.
Because it is a challenge to the state the state will obviously respond. Mistakes will be made, but also learned from, and it is this disciplined approach which will allow for this engagement to spread successfully to other areas. In part the success of this project may be gauged from the state’s reaction to it. They will not be alone. Establishment Nationalists will also have a vested interest in seeing this project fail. They will seek to divide and conquer. But a clear understanding as to the implications of its sovereign distinction and clear democratic practices will thwart them. After all it was disdain for democracy within their own organisations which led them into the cul de sac they now find themselves.
The 32CSM will be active on other fronts. Two major international initiatives will be launched in the coming year. We have observed how issues at play on the international stage are geared toward political events in the occupied six counties. We have made our intentions known to the relevant governments that we are determined to follow a particular path challenging any move that would seek to de-legitimise the republican struggle. These initiatives are for the benefit of Irish republicanism, we will not claim sole ownership of them. But we will provide the leadership that will open up counter arguments for all republicans to employ against these nefarious measures.
Republican unity in 2009 resulted in impressive demonstrations on a range of issues. The continuing media and political demonising of republicans is proof of their effect as is their grudging admission of our growth. The media and political establishment’s objective is to ignore us but through mutual cooperation we have made this impossible. In the coming year this cooperation can be galvanised within our communities as these issues now become their issues in pursuit of our national objectives.
The British Government’s strategy of finally destroying any vestige of republicanism within the provisional movement will not be allowed to undermine the separatist ideal. A resurgent republicanism will demonstrate to both governments and the international community that the destruction of the provisional movement was the liberation of Irish republicanism. It is up to all of us to ensure that 2010 clearly demonstrates this reality.
New Year Statement 2010
We commend our activists for their dedication and hard work in pursuit of the republican goal in 2009. We commend all other republican activists for being true to their beliefs and for being generous and inventive in listening to the beliefs of others. 2009 was a year which witnessed that inventiveness being translated into political action which was widely recognised throughout the republican base. It represented the most potent expression of solidarity with imprisoned comrades. It is solidarity in action with those who were bereaved in the struggle. It is also the way forward for Irish republicanism.
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement has a clear vision for the year ahead. The reclamation of our sovereignty must take real form. We must give leadership to our communities to help them achieve this. Throughout Ireland communities have been betrayed by the institutions of faith, finance and state which have long purported to speak and act on their behalf. The abundance of trust placed in the integrity of individual leaders has proved misplaced. They have been left leaderless.
They have not, however, been left powerless. It is in recognition of this reality that the 32CSM will now engage with our communities. In a disciplined approach the 32CSM will liase directly with local communities to explore ways of reclaiming their sovereignty, and under these auspices, help them pursue their political and social objectives. We will focus our efforts in ensuring that all community activity will by default be a pursuit toward national sovereignty. Such a process will be a challenge to both states. It is a first step in filling the vacuum left by those who are now wholly subsumed into the apparatus of partition.
Communities so organised can become the template for national freedom. The republican objective is twofold; to secure our sovereign independence and to organise a just society within that independence. Like our republican forebears we can now enact our aspirations, we can involve our people with our beliefs in real and tangible terms. Republicanism cannot be detached from the people and the people cannot be detached from the strategies deployed to secure their freedom. We can only lead through democratic involvement with our communities.
Because it is a first step it must be taken with due diligence. We have prepared our arguments and are refining our position as mandated at our Ard Fheis. It will be democratic. It will be a learning process which will require discipline, patience and pragmatic political judgement. Republicans cannot interact at a distance. We need to create a new interface between ourselves and our people which will allow us to seek their mandate for our struggle. This mandate will not be measured by a gerrymandered vote. Its value will be in its democratic integrity and its sovereign credentials. For us the ballot box means more than just numbers. Democracy can only be returned to the Irish people when their national sovereignty is recognised.
Because it is a challenge to the state the state will obviously respond. Mistakes will be made, but also learned from, and it is this disciplined approach which will allow for this engagement to spread successfully to other areas. In part the success of this project may be gauged from the state’s reaction to it. They will not be alone. Establishment Nationalists will also have a vested interest in seeing this project fail. They will seek to divide and conquer. But a clear understanding as to the implications of its sovereign distinction and clear democratic practices will thwart them. After all it was disdain for democracy within their own organisations which led them into the cul de sac they now find themselves.
The 32CSM will be active on other fronts. Two major international initiatives will be launched in the coming year. We have observed how issues at play on the international stage are geared toward political events in the occupied six counties. We have made our intentions known to the relevant governments that we are determined to follow a particular path challenging any move that would seek to de-legitimise the republican struggle. These initiatives are for the benefit of Irish republicanism, we will not claim sole ownership of them. But we will provide the leadership that will open up counter arguments for all republicans to employ against these nefarious measures.
Republican unity in 2009 resulted in impressive demonstrations on a range of issues. The continuing media and political demonising of republicans is proof of their effect as is their grudging admission of our growth. The media and political establishment’s objective is to ignore us but through mutual cooperation we have made this impossible. In the coming year this cooperation can be galvanised within our communities as these issues now become their issues in pursuit of our national objectives.
The British Government’s strategy of finally destroying any vestige of republicanism within the provisional movement will not be allowed to undermine the separatist ideal. A resurgent republicanism will demonstrate to both governments and the international community that the destruction of the provisional movement was the liberation of Irish republicanism. It is up to all of us to ensure that 2010 clearly demonstrates this reality.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Special Branch Harassment Continues
On Saturday the 12th of December eight 32CSM members from the Dublin cumann attended an anti drugs rally on O’Connell Street. The rally was organised in conjunction with COCAD and was intended to raise awareness around the issue of drug abuse ravaging working class communities. After the protest, as the 32CSM members were preparing to leave, they were approached by two detectives who began to harass some of the members present with insinuations and aggressive posturing.
One of the branch members illegally refused to identify himself as required under law and the 32CSM members began to walk away. The detective then physically accosted a sovereignty movement member and called for backup. The sovereignty movement members began to tell passers by what the branch men were doing only to be told by the detectives to stop. Refusing to do so the sovereignty movement activists were allowed to walk away but were followed again with more harassment including all eight members being searched. Having failed in their clear objective of provoking a physical confrontation the branch men resorted to childish threats.
The 32CSM wishes to highlight the ongoing harassment of its members by both the Gardai and the Special Branch. Routine and petty harassment is clearly designed to both deter people from joining and to make members lives more difficult. In the face of this regular and provocative behaviour the sovereignty movement in Dublin has refused to allow itself to be denigrated and continues its work unhindered by Free State oppression.
Beir Bua
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Shell To Sea Activist Imprisoned
32 County Sovereignty Movement: Free Maura Harrington
On a day when the government chose to impose savage cuts on the least well off to compensate for the reckless behaviour of bankers and developers they also chose to imprison an Irish Citzen endeavouring to protect our natural resources as the property of all the Irish people. Judge John Haughton sentenced Maura Harrington to nine months imprisonment and the severity of the sentence seems to be meant as a deterrent against further similar activities by Ms Harrington and others. Not content to allow bankers squander billions alone they also allowed a corrupt and convicted Cabinet Minister negotiate a deal with the Shell Corporation to siphon billions of our natural resources into private hands. The concept of the people being the nation no longer holds true for them.
The harassment of activists by Shell and their local lackeys is not a pattern unique to Ireland and the atrocities committed by Shell against the native people in the Ogoni in Nigeria which culminated in the Shell sponsored state executions of the Ogoni Nine shows the lengths to which they will go for profit. The 32CSM supports the people of Mayo in their struggle against Shell and the brutality of the Gardai in dealing with protestors. We call for the immediate release of Ms Harrington and any imprisoned Shell to Sea activists and for an immediate cessation to Shell construction projects in Ireland. To Maura Harrington and her comrades we trust the spirit of Ken Sara Wiwa will continue to sustain you.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Attacks On Vulnerable Condemned
32 County Sovereignty Movement Condemns Attacks on the Vulnerable
The 32CSM in North Dublin has been informed in recent weeks of a spate of burglaries and anti social behaviour in Donaghmede. These attacks on the community in the area come at a time when working class areas are also suffering from the neo liberal policies of a government that cares little for the people of Ireland. Just as the sovereignty movement condemns the attacks on the Irish people by this government and seeks to fight for their basic rights so we will also take a stand on local issues that affect our communities. We have been informed by local residents that these acts have been perpetrated under various guises to gain entry to the homes of residents. The elderly have been targeted in many cases and are living in a state of constant fear. This is unacceptable and will be dealt with accordingly. We urge all residents of Donaghmede and any communities suffering similar problems to contact their local 32csm representative with any information on these incidents.
The failure of the Gardai to respond to the needs of local people merely reflects their stance of supporting the government’s supporters, the wealthy and the powerful. The 32CSM will not abandon the people of Dublin as the political elite have done. To the perpetrators of these acts we advise you to cease and desist. The consequence of attacking communities is to isolate yourselves from society. To prey on the weak is to attack the fabric of community and this is an intolerable trend in working class areas. Anti social behaviour will not go unanswered and requests for assistance from the 32CSM will be heeded as they have been recently in Cavan, Cork and in the Six Counties.
32CSM activists will be pursuing such events in these areas and we urge all members of the community to feel welcome to approach us for assistance.
Dublin 32CSM
The 32CSM in North Dublin has been informed in recent weeks of a spate of burglaries and anti social behaviour in Donaghmede. These attacks on the community in the area come at a time when working class areas are also suffering from the neo liberal policies of a government that cares little for the people of Ireland. Just as the sovereignty movement condemns the attacks on the Irish people by this government and seeks to fight for their basic rights so we will also take a stand on local issues that affect our communities. We have been informed by local residents that these acts have been perpetrated under various guises to gain entry to the homes of residents. The elderly have been targeted in many cases and are living in a state of constant fear. This is unacceptable and will be dealt with accordingly. We urge all residents of Donaghmede and any communities suffering similar problems to contact their local 32csm representative with any information on these incidents.
The failure of the Gardai to respond to the needs of local people merely reflects their stance of supporting the government’s supporters, the wealthy and the powerful. The 32CSM will not abandon the people of Dublin as the political elite have done. To the perpetrators of these acts we advise you to cease and desist. The consequence of attacking communities is to isolate yourselves from society. To prey on the weak is to attack the fabric of community and this is an intolerable trend in working class areas. Anti social behaviour will not go unanswered and requests for assistance from the 32CSM will be heeded as they have been recently in Cavan, Cork and in the Six Counties.
32CSM activists will be pursuing such events in these areas and we urge all members of the community to feel welcome to approach us for assistance.
Dublin 32CSM
Monday, November 16, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Free Colin Duffy Protest Drogheda 24/10/09
Members of Friends of Colin duffy, 32CSM. IRPWA, eirigi, Independent Republicans and RNU held a protest in Drogheda in support of the incarcerated republican.
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