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Irish Freedom Committee - Political Status Pickets SATURDAY

The Irish Freedom Committee is staging weekly Political Status pickets in front of British/Irish Free State consulates, 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.

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 Political Status, a right won in blood by the deaths of ten Irish Republican prisoners on hunger strikes in 1981, has been revoked by the latest British Treaty claiming to deliver "peace" but instead delivering increased military oppression and totalitarian rule.
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IRISH FREEDOM COMMITTEE® NEWSLIST
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Subject: Political Status Pickets SATURDAY
Date: Friday June 24, 2005


REMINDER:

NOON - 2:00 PM
SATURDAY JUNE 25, 2005

BRITISH/FREE STATE CONSULATE
400 N. MICHIGAN AVE. (Chicago River & Michigan Ave.)
CHICAGO IL

Weekly pickets continue outside the British/free State consulates in Chicago, initiated by the Charlie Kerins Cumann of the Irish Freedom Committee.

These pickets have been held every Saturday afternoon since March 17th 2005 to call attention to extreme abuses of human rights, and grave instances of injustice, to nearly 100 Irish Republican Political Prisoners currently being held in British and Irish jails.

These pickets also continue to highlight the continued oppression against the Irish people by a foreign military power and its co-opted paramilitary security forces.

Our pickets are open to the public and we encourage all to come along and help educate the public and enjoy a few hours in the sun for our
Irish brothers and sisters behind bars.

Bring your Tricolors, banners and enthusiasm - Assemble NOON each Saturday beneath the clock at the Wrigley Building, 400 N. Michigan
(Chicago River & Michigan Ave).

TIOCFAIDH ÁR LÁ!!


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