Irish Freedom Committee to participate in 25-Hour FastFriday May 5, 2006
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25-HOUR FAST IN
MEMORY OF THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1981 HUNGER STRIKE AT LONG KESH
JAIL The Irish Freedom
Committee encourages our Members and supporters to participate in a
25-Hour Fast this Friday May 5, in memory of the 25th Anniversary of the
1981 Hunger Strike at Long Kesh jail.
Sponsor forms can be downloaded at the Chicago Hunger Strike
Commemoration Committee website at http://www.wemustbeunited.com On May 5, 1981 Bobby
Sands died on hunger strike after 66 days without food. He was followed
by nine heroic others, who sacrificed their lives that all Irish
Republican Prisoners would have the right to Political Status --- the
right to be classed as Political Prisoners, and not as criminals.
The Hunger Strikers’ demands for Political Status were won in
blood, and all Irish Republican POWs thereafter shared these rights;
until they were once again revoked under the terms of the 1998 Stormont
Treaty. Irish Republican
Political Prisoners today are denied Political Status, and many are
currently being held in conditions as bad or worse than those that
preceded the 1981 Hunger Strikes. Please join this
25-Hour Fast this Friday May 5, in memory of the sacrifices of so many.
All proceeds of this sponsored fast will go toward the support of
dependants of Irish Republican Political Prisoners.
Sponsor forms can be downloaded at the Chicago Hunger Strike
Commemoration Committee website at http://www.wemustbeunited.com IN MEMORY OF THE TEN -- WE MUST BE UNITED.
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IFC 25-Hour Fast report Saturday May 6, 2005 The Irish Freedom Committee would like to sincerely thank all of our members and supporters nationwide who participated in yesterday's 25-Hour Fast, in memory of the ten hunger strikers who suffered and died in Long Kesh jail 25 years ago. The fast was organized by the Chicago Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee, as part of a series of year-long events dedicated to the memory of the 1981 Hunger Strikers. Some of our members chose to fast yesterday in private and solemn reflection, and others collected sponsorships to be donated to today's families of Republican political prisoners. Our sponsored fasts educated our communities and co-workers on the deaths of Bobby Sands and nine others, who would all suffer terrible deaths before the British government would capitulate on their demands for POLITICAL STATUS for all Irish Republican Political Prisoners. Sadly, 25 years later those demands have once again been REVOKED under the terms of another British treaty, and the fight goes on. The Irish Freedom Committee will participate in several other upcoming events as part of our year-long unity project with the Chicago Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee; including an upcoming Punk Rock show in July, and the 1981 Hunger Strike Commemoration Dinner Dance in August. Please see the IFC website for more details or visit the Chicago Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee website at http://www.wemustbeunited.com MORE INFORMATION What Is Political Status? WRITE TO IRISH REPUBLICAN POWs!! History of the 1981 Hunger Strikes We Must Be United – In Memory Of The Ten |
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