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The Fight for what is Right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG7HYSH4GnA&feature=relmfu Extracts from Bobby Sands’ hunger strike diary appear in a new book edited by, among others, the Academy-Award winning actor, Colin Firth. ‘The People Speak’ is also part of a multimedia project which...
Haneen Zoabi MK
During Palestine Day at Féile an Phobail Palestinian representative Haneen Zoabi spoke on a platform with Sinn Fein MLA Pat Sheehan who was on his fifty-fifth day of hunger strike in 1981 when the hunger strike ended. During her visit to West Belfast Haneen also...
‘Music From The Blocks’
A young American student with an interest in music, “its power to tell stories, reinforce identities and express everyday political and cultural ideas”, has just had her work displayed on Fulbright and MTV’s University website and is asking people to view the...
Israeli Soldier On Hunger Strike
A 31-year-old soldier, placed in an Israel Defense Forces prison has refused to wear a prison uniform, address prison commanders using their official ranks and has gone on hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinians subject to administrative detention (internment)....
Anniversary Marked
There were white-line pickets held across republican areas of Belfast today in memory of Bobby Sands who died thirty one years ago. Other events over the weekend include a parade in Tyrone by Dromore Memorial Committee. In 1981 Dromore was then part of the...
His Death Still Resonates
The Huffington Post has marked the anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands with a feature on the legacy of the 1981 hunger strike. “Just over three decades on it is perhaps difficult to appreciate the significance of the sacrifice made by Sands and his comrades, which...
Bobby Sands Remembered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEkZP0GLuZc On this the 31, anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Bobby Sands, his friend and comrade, former IRA prisoner Colm Scullion from South Derry, recalls first meeting Bobby while on remand in Crumlin Road Jail. Colm had...
‘HUNGER’
Four years after its release the award-winning film ‘Hunger’, an account of the last days in the life of Bobby Sands, is to be shown in Italy (in Italian). It is being released by BIM Distribuzione, the leading company which deals in high-level arthouse films....
Prisoner’s Condition Deteriorates
A vigil was held in recent days in Belfast in support of Palestinian hunger striker, Hanan al-Shalabi, whose condition has rapidly deteriorated. Amnesty International has expressed concern for Hana al-Shalabi, a young Palestinian woman, who is being held on...
‘Knows No Borders’
At the recent Anti-Colonial Week held in La Bellevilloise, Paris, an event was organised to commemorate Bobby Sands and the 1981 hunger strikers. Among the guest speakers were Julie Duchatel (translator of Bobby Sands, jusqu'au bout, by Denis O’Hearn), Francis Wurtz...
