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CHUCK McLAUGHLIN, R.I.P. |
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Monday, June 13, 2011 CHUCK McLAUGHLIN, R.I.P. It is with our deepest sadness that we must announce the sudden death of our beloved friend Chuck McLaughlin; Irish Freedom Committee Board member and Founder and Chairman of our Albuquerque, New Mexico cumann. Chuck was a tireless, compassionate, and outspoken advocate for Irish republican political prisoners and their families. One of his last acts was to organize a substantial donation drive for several families of republican prisoners. Chuck was deeply committed to the efforts to appeal for an International human rights delegation to visit Maghaberry jail, and he was to visit the jail himself later this month and meet with several of the prisoners there. Chuck diligently and regularly corresponded with many of the republican prisoners imprisoned at Maghaberry, Portlaoise, and in prisons in Lithuania and France; who no doubt will feel a great loss at the news of his passing. Chuck's every energy was spent on righting wrongs wherever he found them. His compassion knew no geographical boundaries; he was equally outraged over human rights and territorial abuses to all Celtic peoples, Native Americans, the Palestinian people, and displaced and occupied peoples all over the world. Every Christmas Chuck organized a truckload of clothing and toys that he personally drove from Albuquerque to the Native American reservation at Pine Ridge, North Dakota. He often spoke of the beauty of the people who lived there in the most appalling conditions imaginable. Chuck McLaughlin is a larger-than-life presence whose tireless, endless energy was totally focused on the downtrodden, the wrongfully accused, the imprisoned, the occupied, and the abused. No words can properly describe our loss. We have lost a friend and a warrior like no other. Rest in Peace and Power, dear friend. +++++++++++++ |
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