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Saturday March 22, 2008 20:11 by Tadhg McGrath
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Good Friday Rossport Solidarity Walk 2008
A large number of people took a chance on yesterday's changeable weather to join the annual Good Friday Rossport Solidarity walk. The walk, now in it's fourth year, is along the original route planned by Shell for their production pipeline, which was supposed to carry raw gas at extremely high pressure to the refinery at Bellanaboy.
This route was abandoned by Shell in the face of protests, but not before five local men had to spend three months away from their families locked up in a high security prison in Dublin. Shell keep saying that they will announce the new route for the pipeline "soon", but it seems that they have yet to find an opportune moment. Deliberations ended in January, we are told, but for some reason they are slow to make a formal announcement of their new plan.
Some people are wondering if they are waiting for a certain Dublin politician to announce his resignation, so they can then slip out the announcement while the mainstream media have their hands full...
![Click on image to see full-sized version march_2008_097.jpg](../cache/imagecache/local/attachments/mar2008/460_0___30_0_0_0_0_0_march_2008_097.jpg) Yesterday's walk was started by Sister Majella McCarron, veteran of campaigns against Shell in Africa. Nine walkers carried crosses bearing the names of Baribor Bera, Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel Gbokoo, Barinem Kiobel, John Kpuinen, Paul Levura,Felix Nuate and Ken Saro Wiwa, who were hanged one by one at Port Harcourt Prison, Nigeria, in 1995 because of their opposition to Shell's activities in the Niger Delta.
The weather was fine for the most part, and there were a few scheduled stops for speeches and reflection, as well as one to allow shelter from the only rain shower. Spirits were high and people were looking forward to the new season of resistance against the onshore refinery and production pipeline scheme.
Many people were swapping theories about the local groups that Shell have said they are funding, under a part of the scheme which was recommended by the government appointed mediator Peter Cassels, in his 2006 report where he conceded that there was no basis for mediation while Shell insisted on an onshore refinery and production pipeline.
Of the nine local groups which are said to have accepted money, the names include a group which does not seem to have very many, if any, members; other bodies which carry out no activities; a group who seem to have accepted funding without ever actually receiving a penny (seeing the cheque going instead to another organisation's bank account) and a personal favourite, a "local group" which amounts to an agreement of one person to do a sponsored walk for a registered national charity.
Some wags were saying they intend to apply for funding from Shell next year for the Rossport Good Friday Walk committee, an organisation which has a large amount of visible support, and carries out a very successful activity every year.
For more information on Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight see here: remembersarowiwa.com,
www.ratical.org/corporations/OgoniFactS, www.indymedia.ie/article/85029.
For pictures of the previous Good Friday Walks click here-
2005: www.flickr.com/photos/mayogas/sets/455853/
2006: ireland.indymedia.org/article/75458
2007: http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=426&event=1
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1Shell is being aided and abetted in the rape of Erris,and it is being helped by “facilitators” many who are local "pillars" of society in Erris and north Mayo who are willing to sell out their community for the publicity and few crumbs from their masters shell's table. The old saying "money talks" has never been more true than in this case. In direct parallel our history shows that the landlordism and the English injustice in Ireand would never have succeeded were it not from the gombeen antics of their Irish agents who lived in the community and who did the dirty work for the landlords against their very own neighbours. There will always be the sort of people who would sell their own granny for 30 pieces of silver and Erris has more than its fair share of gombeen men
don't forget- Shell to Sea protest this Saturday in Dublin at the Shell station in Glasnevin, across the road from Glasnevin cemetery- 12 Noon (timed to allow folks to get into town for the start of the Health Rally.)
Good photos & report on state of play. SHell & their gombeens may be getting an inkling that we ain't giving up! Love & solidarity to yez all.
a few more pictures
Shell compound at Rossport
gate still locked- blocking a public right of way