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Date Posted: Wed, Apr 04 2007, 12:22:53 PDT
Author: Red Larry's board
Subject: News & Events

Wednesday, April 4, 2007 3:15 AM
To : redlarry@yahoogroups.com
Subject : Red Larry / Red Justice Digest Number 1160

Red Justice
Messages In This Digest (25 Messages)
1.
Two more DUP councillors resign over power-sharing deal From: lwrncmorton
2.
Indigenous languages From: Lawrence Morton
3.
The 1916 Easter Rising From: Lawrence Morton
4.1.
Fwd: RTE.ie News At One From: Lawrence Morton
5.
Fwd: Baby Seals Are Drowning From: Lawrence Morton
6.
[32countyirishrepublic] Easter Commemoration NYC From: Lawrence Morton
7.
[32countyirishrepublic] Republican Sinn Fein Easter Commemoration From: Lawrence Morton
8.
Fwd: RTE.ie News Update - Ahern says no to 10.5% nursing pay rise From: Lawrence Morton
9.
Fwd: José Pertierra on Posada hearing From: Lawrence Morton
10.
[irsm_news] 32csm report on Noel demo From: Lawrence Morton
11.
Larry to attend court for trial April 05 From: Lawrence Morton
12.
Group card sent to lads of Maghaberry today From: Lawrence Morton
13.
Larry to wear Che t -shirt in court From: Lawrence Morton
14.
[irsm_news] Shut Down the War Machine Report From: Lawrence Morton
15.
samuel cooper davis - do they owe us a living? (crass cover) From: Lawrence Morton
16.
Fwd: [Hands Off Venezuela] Celia Hart's new book / Revolutionary Not From: Lawrence Morton
17.
[irsm_news] Call That Humiliation? From: Lawrence Morton
18a.
INLA Commemorative Video - Ireland From: Lawrence Morton
19.
The SSFM will overcome From: Lawrence Morton
20.
Cuba Che Fidel Companeros From: Lawrence Morton
21.
Hugo Chavez - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised From: Lawrence Morton
22.
Continuity IRA footage. From: Lawrence Morton
23.
IRA Stick your decomission up your ass From: Lawrence Morton
24.
( ira )TEN BRAVE MEN From: Lawrence Morton
25.
A For Anarchy From: Lawrence Morton
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1.
Two more DUP councillors resign over power-sharing deal
Posted by: "lwrncmorton" redlarry1962@yahoo.co.uk lwrncmorton
Tue Apr 3, 2007 5:59 am (PST)
07:22 Tuesday April 3rd 2007 unison.ie

Two more DUP councillors have resigned from the party in protest at
its decision to share power with Sinn Fein.

James Alexander and Robin Stirling, who are both from Ian Paisley's
Ballymena stronghold, announced their decision during a meeting of
the local council last night.

Their departures bring the total number of DUP resignations to five
since the party agreed to enter a power-sharing Executive with
republicans in May.

In a statement issued last night, Dr Paisley attempted to sooth
unionist concerns by assuring them that the DUP would fight for their
interests.

He said all major decisions would have to be agreed by the whole
Executive, where there will be a majority of unionist ministers.

Tue Apr 3, 2007 6:02 am (PST)
http://thescotsman. scotsman. com/letters. cfm?id=507102007

The Scotsman
Mon 2 Apr 2007
Opinion - Letters

Indigenous languages

Dr Brian Campbell (Letters, 30 March) is offended that maps of the
Outer Isles show the place names in Gaelic. But it would make as much
sense to complain about maps of Germany showing place names in
German.

In Italy, not only substantial languages like Neapolitan but local
dialects like Ladin each have the support of national and local
government in maintaining websites, publishing text books and
ensuring an important place in the school curricula.

In Scotland, languages with the enormous literary, cultural and
historical importance of Gaelic and Scots are treated as if they were
of no consequence whatever; and when the government does take some
action in support of Gaelic, the response of some people is a chorus
of girns.

William Neill, a Lowlander who learned enough Gaelic to become one of
its finest poets, well characterised the Scotland in which we live as
a "dim, miserable little spiritual desert".

J DERRICK McCLURE, Rosehill Terrace, Aberdeen

3.
The 1916 Easter Rising
Posted by: "Lawrence Morton" redlarry1962@yahoo.co.uk lwrncmorton
Tue Apr 3, 2007 6:11 am (PST)
"We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies to be sovereign and indefeasible"

P.H. Pearse,
The 1916 Proclamation

http://www.newrepublicanforum.ie/

Tue Apr 3, 2007 6:50 am (PST)

Note: forwarded message attached.

5.
Fwd: Baby Seals Are Drowning
Posted by: "Lawrence Morton" redlarry1962@yahoo.co.uk lwrncmorton
Tue Apr 3, 2007 1:58 pm (PST)

6.
[32countyirishrepublic] Easter Commemoration NYC

Tue Apr 3, 2007 2:02 pm (PST)
Cuimneach� ��in Na C� ��isce
Easter Commemorations

The 91st Commemoration of the 1916 Easter Sunday Uprising
will be held at 9.00 am on Easter Sunday, April 8, 2007
at
the grave of Joseph Stynes
(Irish War Of Independence veteran)
in
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York
by
Cumann na Sao� ��rse N� ��s� ��nta
(The National Irish Freedom Committee)

For more information contact
nifcmem@optonline. net
or call 732 441 9923
more information at: www.irishfreedom. net
------------ --------- --------- -------
The above event will be followed
by
an Easter Commemoration Mass and Breakfast
sponsored by
Sean � ��glaigh Na h-� ��ireann/Friends of Irish Freedom
at
Kelly Ryan's Restaurant, 5790 Mosholu Ave.
(in the Riverdale section of the Bronx)
at 10.00 am
------------ --------- --------- ------
Tickets are $25.00
Children under 12 are free
For more information please call
718- 884- 3085 or 718- 601- 1550.

* NIFC members and supporters attending the above should contact
nifcmem@optonline. net ASAP.*

7.
[32countyirishrepublic] Republican Sinn Fein Easter Commemoration

Tue Apr 3, 2007 2:03 pm (PST)

The McKearney McCaughey Cumann East Tyrone Republican Sinn Fein Easter Commemoration will take place in Edendork Graveyard at the graveside of Fian James Francis McCaughey and Fian Patrick Bernard two young Members of Na Fianna na hEireann killed by Crown Forces St Patricks Day 1976 assemble at the graveyard 5.30 Easter Saturday Main Speaker Tony McPhilips National Spokesperson for the Republican Prisoners Action group and Election Agent for Republican Sinn Fein Candidate Mick McManus

8.
Fwd: RTE.ie News Update - Ahern says no to 10.5% nursing pay rise

Tue Apr 3, 2007 2:04 pm (PST)

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9.

Tue Apr 3, 2007 2:17 pm (PST)

The 32CSM Cumman of Naples Italy had its protest outside the British
Embassy Friday 30 March. Around 75 members turned up in the rain to
protest the illegal victimisation of Noel Maguire. There were no major
confronations with the police, (apart from the fact they refused to let us
or the press take photographs citing the Italian Privacy laws after the
Embassy complained,) even if the British Embassy did call both the
Carabinieri and the Polizia after they refused to accept a letter adressed
to Edward Chaplin the ambassator to Italy, calling for his governmet to
release Noel Maguire to the Irish authorities. We did notice camera
falshes from inside the Building.

We also had banners for another Political Policing Victim Gerry Mcgeough
and tried to present a letter on his behalf which was also refused.

Petitions are currently circulating at the main Naples Universities, -
L'Orientale, Federico II Napoli, Universit� �� degli Studi Suor Orsola
Benincasa - Napoli, Napoli "Parthenope" and Seconda Universit� �� degli Studi
di Napoli - which will then be sent to the Irish Embassy in Dublin. We
will also be organising a Fundraiser in Varese, to raise funds for Noel
and his family, in collaboration with members of the Cumman and the
Paritio Communista Italiana.

We deem the day to be a great success and hope that in some small way our
deeds will be useful to Noels cause.

32CSM Cumman Naples Italy

1.
Larry to attend court for trial April 05
Posted by: "Lawrence Morton" redlarry1962@yahoo.co.uk lwrncmorton
Tue Apr 3, 2007 2:30 pm (PST)
A chara,

I am to stand trial on April 05 on fabricated charges of racism against an English person in Scotland. This is in connection to emails and weblog posts by myself.

I accept full resposibility and we could be pleading guilty.

We hope for a fine that could amount to � ��300 but so be it.

I promise if the imperialists fine me then I will match penny for penny to support the Irish Republican prisoners funds.

I make this pledge let them fine me � ��300 and that is also � ��300 to Irish republican prisoners or if the IPSC if the good offices of them are willing but interested to pass the monies on.

The crown should be punished as they do to me.

I have been framed and we and my lawyer will fight this,

All Power to the People
Saoirse Go Deo!
Larry

12.
Group card sent to lads of Maghaberry today

Tue Apr 3, 2007 2:39 pm (PST)
A chara,

Comrades a gruop card for Easter has been sent to the lads in Maghaberry Gaol. It was sent to Terry who accepts cards for Remand prisoners but this card is to the guys in Maghaberry and remand lads that are POWs.

We wish everyone in the Lisburn jail a Happy Easter and I am sorry I am too late to send a card to the boys in E2 (Wing) Portaoise but they are nor forgotten I will be sending them letters.

I thank the lads from E2 wing for an Easter card!

Will be in contact
Slan agus beannacht
Larry

13.
Larry to wear Che t -shirt in court

Posted by: "Lawrence Morton" redlarry1962@yahoo.co.uk lwrncmorton

Tue Apr 3, 2007 3:04 pm (PST)
I will be wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt in on Thursday at court to prove I am an internationalist not a racist against the English people.

A Scottish Socialist Freedom Movement t-shirt might upset the sheriff with Saltires on the sleeves.

The Scottiah Executive of 'New Labour' have gone all Politically Correct and do not accept any criticism of English people. But it is interesting plenty racism against the coloured people here but criticise the white English and the quislings throw their hands up in horror.

From a confused people
Scotland
Larry

Tue Apr 3, 2007 3:12 pm (PST)
Shut Down The War Machine campaign reaches far and wide

The Shut Down The War Machine campaign, which was launched in late 2006 to
organize what would effectively be a general strike on Monday, March 19,
2007, reached far and wide.

Student and worker walkouts and call-offs were organized in Asheville, NC;
Pontiac, MI; Pittsburgh, PA (and surrounding areas); Miami, FL; Orlando,
FL; Parkland, FL; Lafayette, LA; New York, NY; Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX;
Boston, MA; Washington, DC; Price George� ��s and Montgomery counties in
Maryland; Athol, ID; Omaha, NE; Southern California; and Bolingbrook, IL
in the United States; Kellyville in Australia; Kent in the United Kingdom;
and several parts of Canada.

In Asheville, NC, so many students and teachers at a community college
agreed to stay home on March 19, that the administration was forced to
declare the day a � ��planning day� �� and cancel most classes.

Besides a number of musicians and authors, the campaign drew endorsements
from a number of union members, and the New York and Pittsburgh General
Membership Branches of the Industrial Workers of the World.

Campaign organizers are now working out plans to organize for a general
strike again in the future. With the contacts made so far, and the obvious
failure of the protest movement to end the wars, there is a real
possibility for this to become something big, and effective.

------------ --------- --------- --------- -

Thousands protest Iraq War in Washington, D.C.

On March 17, some twenty-thousand people from across the United States
battled winter weather and traveled to Washington, DC, to join with others
around the world in protest of the U.S. and UK invasion of Iraq.

The protest in DC, which marked the 5th anniversary of the invasion, was
much smaller than another protest held in the city only two months earlier
� �� which drew 400,000.

Some of the protest� ��s organizers put most of the blame on the inclement
weather; but that wouldn� ��t explain smaller numbers that turned out to
similar protests in California, where no such weather existed.

The real reasons the numbers of demonstrators have dwindled in the U.S.
aren� ��t very difficult to see. Firstly, many of those who came out to
protests in the past have the illusion � �� in no small part due to the
organizers of such events � �� that if the Democratic Party could take
control of the House and Senate, the war would come to an end. Second,
many are likely becoming disenchanted with a strategy of short, mechanical
marches, that have proven to have little or no effect.

It is for both of these reasons that the Free People� ��s Movement sent a
contingent to demonstration in Washington, DC, where we fought hard to get
out the same message we� ��ve been saying for years: � ��The Democrats are a
party that represents the capitalist ruling elite, not the toiling
majority� �� and � ��Only the working class can end the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.� ��

Although the numbers at this protest were smaller than many in the past,
it was evident that our message was finding audience. Besides talking to
demonstrators and distributing copies of The Free Press, the members of
our contingent also helped to distribute thousands of copies of a leaflet
for the Shut Down The War Machine campaign, which called for a general
strike against the war.

Our members had spent much of their time before the protest organizing for
that same campaign in their workplaces, schools and neighborhoods; and
encouraging others to do the same.

The fact that five years of protesting has done nothing to slow down the
U.S. and UK imperialists � �� who now have their cross-hairs on Iran � �� proves
the need for new strategies and tactics. The workers of these countries � ��
who create all wealth within them, and allow them to function � �� must unite
and flex their economic power to bring the imperialist war machines
tumbling down.

A general strike by a majority of workers in the U.S. and the UK could
have a major effect; but smaller actions by workers in one industry or
workplace can also inflict damage on the war machine. This was perfectly
illustrated recently by the Goodyear workers strike, which the U.S.
government threatened to smash, because � �� according to them � �� it had the
potential to hurt the war effort. But, instead of taking note of this and
working to expand the strike to other workplaces and industries � �� to deal
the death blow to the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan � �� the
bureaucrats of the United Steel Workers union cowered to the capitalist
governments threats.

In the coming period, it will be necessary to continue to organize and
agitate among our fellow workers, to fight were we are for real anti-war
action that can, and must, lead to much larger actions.

------------ --------- --------- -----

For those caught up in leftist jargon and outdated feuds, keep in mind
that our publications are aimed at our fellow workers around the world,
not "leftist intellectuals. "

Anyway..

I think this campaign was important and correct for two main reasons.

The first is that it offered an alternative (that could actually work) to
disenchanted workers and "anti-war activists" who are coming to see (or
who saw from the very beginning) that liberal anti-war marches aren't
going to do anything.

The second reason is that it laid the frame work for larger actions in the
future. Many disparate groups and individuals were able to unite around
the call for a general strike to stop the wars (with the March 19 date
being a concrete day to do so). Many people were involved, from
revolutionary communists, to basically non-political working class youth
in the south, to auto workers in Detroit, to IWW members in the North
East, to folks in Canada, the UK and Australia.

So many contacts were made, and so many people were reached, and that
gives us a groundwork to build for another, better attempt at a general
strike.

A comparison can be made with the immigrants' rights strikes last year.
The first "Day Without An Immigrant" was called in Philly early in the
year, and it only drew out about 2,000 people. Only a few months later,
however, there were millions in the streets in major cities all across the
U.S.

I think a similar thing can happen here, especially if the broad,
non-sectarian cooperation the campaign has had so far continues.

Finally, as a side, this campaign brought alot of people who have never
been active in politics in their lives into the fight to end the wars in a
real and meaningful way. Instead of just marching in a line for a few
hours and going home, they learned (through victories and failures) how to
organize fellow workers in the political realm.

http://anonym. to/?http: //www.freepeople smovement. org/fpm/page. php%3F14

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15.
samuel cooper davis - do they owe us a living? (crass cover)

Tue Apr 3, 2007 3:43 pm (PST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxzMBlTQUAU

16.
Fwd: [Hands Off Venezuela] Celia Hart's new book / Revolutionary Not

Tue Apr 3, 2007 3:49 pm (PST)

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17.
[irsm_news] Call That Humiliation?

No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a
very uncivilised bunch

Terry Jones
Saturday March 31, 2007
The Guardian

I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of
our naval personnel accused by Iran of illegally entering their waters. It
is a disgrace. We would never dream of treating captives like this -
allowing them to smoke cigarettes, for example, even though it has been
proven that smoking kills. And as for compelling poor servicewoman Faye
Turney to wear a black headscarf, and then allowing the picture to be
posted around the world - have the Iranians no concept of civilised
behaviour? For God's sake, what's wrong with putting a bag over her head?
That's what we do with the Muslims we capture: we put bags over their
heads, so it's hard to breathe. Then it's perfectly acceptable to take
photographs of them and circulate them to the press because the captives
can't be recognised and humiliated in the way these unfortunate British
service people are.

It is also unacceptable that these British captives should be made to talk
on television and say things that they may regret later. If the Iranians
put duct tape over their mouths, like we do to our captives, they wouldn't
be able to talk at all. Of course they'd probably find it even harder to
breathe - especially with a bag over their head - but at least they
wouldn't be humiliated.
And what's all this about allowing the captives to write letters home
saying they are all right? It's time the Iranians fell into line with the
rest of the civilised world: they should allow their captives the privacy
of solitary confinement. That's one of the many privileges the US grants
to its captives in Guant� ��namo Bay.

The true mark of a civilised country is that it doesn't rush into charging
people whom it has arbitrarily arrested in places it's just invaded. The
inmates of Guant� ��namo, for example, have been enjoying all the privacy
they want for almost five years, and the first inmate has only just been
charged. What a contrast to the disgraceful Iranian rush to parade their
captives before the cameras!

What's more, it is clear that the Iranians are not giving their British
prisoners any decent physical exercise. The US military make sure that
their Iraqi captives enjoy PT. This takes the form of exciting "stress
positions", which the captives are expected to hold for hours on end so as
to improve their stomach and calf muscles. A common exercise is where they
are made to stand on the balls of their feet and then squat so that their
thighs are parallel to the ground. This creates intense pain and, finally,
muscle failure. It's all good healthy fun and has the bonus that the
captives will confess to anything to get out of it.

And this brings me to my final point. It is clear from her TV appearance
that servicewoman Turney has been put under pressure. The newspapers have
persuaded behavioural psychologists to examine the footage and they all
conclude that she is "unhappy and stressed".

What is so appalling is the underhand way in which the Iranians have got
her "unhappy and stressed". She shows no signs of electrocution or burn
marks and there are no signs of beating on her face. This is unacceptable.
If captives are to be put under duress, such as by forcing them into
compromising sexual positions, or having electric shocks to their
genitals, they should be photographed, as they were in Abu Ghraib. The
photographs should then be circulated around the civilised world so that
everyone can see exactly what has been going on.

As Stephen Glover pointed out in the Daily Mail, perhaps it would not be
right to bomb Iran in retaliation for the humiliation of our servicemen,
but clearly the Iranian people must be made to suffer - whether by beefing
up sanctions, as the Mail suggests, or simply by getting President Bush to
hurry up and invade, as he intends to anyway, and bring democracy and
western values to the country, as he has in Iraq.

� �� Terry Jones is a film director, actor and Python
www.terry-jones. net

http://www.guardian .co.uk/comment/ story/0,, 2046991,00. html

INLA Commemorative Video - Ireland

Tue Apr 3, 2007 4:08 pm (PST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6KpJmLgOCA

19.
The SSFM will overcome
Posted by: "Lawrence Morton" redlarry1962@yahoo.co.uk lwrncmorton
Tue Apr 3, 2007 4:28 pm (PST)
I Larry are up on court at Arbroath on Thursday.

We are are ready and willing to take on the imperialists. It is nothing compare what Noel Maguire has to face.

The SRSM delivered me a hammer blow by banning me from the Arbroath Rally on the 15th. Instigated from probably a smal group of Stalinists in the SRSM at one of their secret meetings

Larry would like to make this announcement on behalf of the Scottish Socialist Freedom Movement. The police mean nothing I agree with the Anarchists kick their fuckin faces in!

The SRSM member organiser Shona MacKinnon of the reformists accussed me of being a racist.

Well I am not neither are the SSFM comrades if they loose support through resignations or expulsions over the last two years then that is their problem.

I have news for the SRSM I am not a liar like them or a racist the SSFM support international solidarity to include the right for England to have an independent Socialist Repuplic which we we would want friendly relations with our brothers ans sisters in England. But not British rule from Westminster!

Larry
Scottish Socialist Freedom Movement

20.
Cuba Che Fidel Companeros

Tue Apr 3, 2007 5:01 pm (PST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjB3lOPJsVQ&mode=related&search=

21.
Hugo Chavez - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Tue Apr 3, 2007 5:19 pm (PST)

No Matter How Hard Babylon has tried to Subvert the revolucion Boliviano of Venezuela, this people's democracy has survived. This video captures in real time the sway of counter-revolution and its trecherous attempt to violate the Venezuelian Revolution with the complicity of the Amerikan puppetmasters. The People overcame this nefarious assault and the Revolution lives!
Viva Chavez!
Viva La Revolucion Boliviano Venezuela!
A Luta Continua!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8cfsYOtuiU&mode=related&search=

22.
Continuity IRA footage.
Posted by: "Lawrence Morton" redlarry1962@yahoo.co.uk lwrncmorton
Tue Apr 3, 2007 5:32 pm (PST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzLRdiOKsj0
23.
IRA Stick your decomission up your ass

Tue Apr 3, 2007 7:22 pm (PST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caCEKKWO1mU&mode=related&search=

24.
( ira )TEN BRAVE MEN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej9Zjpe6nX4&NR=1

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25.
A For Anarchy

Tue Apr 3, 2007 8:15 pm (PST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb1F-3WguYg&mode=related&search=

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