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LOCAL Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights

Irish Freedom Committee pickets at British consulate - Saturday Apr. 30th - NOON to 2PM

There are currently nearly 100 Irish Republican Political Prisoners being held in jails in Ireland and England. These men and women are being classed as criminals due to their opposition to the 1998 "Good Friday" Treaty, and are being held under some of the most brutal and repressive conditions in Europe including 23-hour lockdowns and strip searches up to 40 times a day. Political Status, a right won in blood by the deaths of ten Irish Republican prisoners on hunger strikes in 1981, has been revoked by the latest British Treaty claiming to deliver "peace" but instead delivering increased military oppression and totalitarian rule.
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The Irish Freedom Committee, Chicago Chapter, has been staging weekly Political Status pickets throughout the month of March and April in front of British/Irish Free State consulates at 400 N. Michigan Avenue, from Noon to 2PM every Saturday.

Our pickets are being held to call attention to the worsening conditions for Irish Republican Political Prisoners and the 1998 revoking of Political Status, for which ten martyrs starved to death to achieve in 1981.

Look for our flags and banners and join us!

RESTORE POLITICAL STATUS TO IRISH REPUBLICAN POLITICAL PRISONERS!!

WHEN/WHERE

Saturday April 30th, 2005
NOON - 2:00pm

British/Free State Consulates
400 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago IL

"RESTORE POLITICAL STATUS TO IRISH REPUBLICAN POWS"


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For more information about the joining the Irish Freedom Committee and participating in our Political Status pickets, or some of our other upcoming events, please visit The Irish Freedom Committee National website at the links below.

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