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Support Ardoyne Residents’ Right to Peacefully Oppose Loyal Order Parades
On the 12th July 2010 Ardoyne Residents and their supporters took part in a peaceful sitdown protest in order to prevent the Orange Order from once again trampling on their right to live free from sectarian intimidation and sectarian harassment, a right enshrined in legislation including the Good Friday Agreement, by marching through Ardoyne. This was permitted by the discredited Parades Commission and facilitated by the PSNI and British Army. The protest was purely peaceful and the protestors were exercising their right to peaceful protest under the European Convention on Human Rights. This method of protest has been successful in the past in a number of other communities where Loyal Orders have attempted to assert their dominance over Catholic/Nationalist/Republican residents. Most of those on the protest where physically assaulted and trailed from the road by heavily armed PSNI officers.
Following on from the Peaceful Protest almost 40 people have since been charged with “Illegal obstruction of a Legal Procession” and will their trial will begin on Monday 31st October. This is in stark contrast to the attitude of the PSNI and PPS when it came to illegal loyalist blockades of Twaddell/Woodvale and Crumlin Road at Hesketh Road prior to the Residents’ protest on 12th July 2010, the UVF led blockade of Asda to have a sectarian killer reinstated to work there after harassing Catholic members of staff, the blockade of Twaddell/Woodvale and Crumlin Road on the night prior to the Tour of the North in June 2011 and of course their blockades on the 11th and 12th of July 2011. We have also yet to see any prosecutions of Loyal Order members and followers who continually insist on breaking the conditions set upon them when the Parades Commission makes the shambolic decision to permit them to march through Ardoyne. These include exceeding the number of followers, playing music, unauthorised banners, bannerettes in remembrance of sectarian killers who murdered members of our community and the display of paramilitary flags and emblems.
In response to this we would like to invite all those who disagree with the decision by the PSNI and PPS to prosecute Peaceful Protestors and Residents of Ardoyne to attend a Rally and Protest in Support of those on trial at 9.30am on Monday 31st October, in advance of their trial starting that morning. This will again be a Peaceful Protest and all those with an interest in defending the rights of people to live free from sectarian harassment and intimidation are welcome.
by Stephen Murney on Wednesday, 26 October 2011 at 17:28
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FUCK THE 12TH OF JULY I WOULD RATHER PROTEST AGAINST THE BASTARDS
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12 July · 09:00 – 20:30
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COATBRIDGE AND ENY WARE ELSE USE WANT 2 PROTEST N WELL GET IT SORTED FOR YEES!
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PROTEST AGENST THE ORANGE WALKS ON THE 12TH OF JULY
THERE NOT WANTED IN SCOTLAND BUT THEY THINK THEY ARE WE ARE NOT SCOTLANDS SHAME!!!!!! THAT PROTESTS AGENST RFB WALKS THEY CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF US SHUVE YOUR DRUMS AND FLUTES UP YOUR ARSES AND DYE ON THE ROAD WARE U STAND |
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Independent annual parade
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26 June · 02:30 – 05:30
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SECTARIAN POLITICAL POLICING
Sunday, 19 June 2011
SECTARIAN POLITICAL POLICING OF NATIONALIST & UNIONIST PROTESTS
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Earlier this week, Unionists including members of the Orange Order, Loyalist Paramilitaries and Twaddell/Woodvale residents blocked the Woodvale and Twaddell Avenue for two successive nights. The large crowds ensured that access to two major roads was prevented and the RUC/PSNI facilitated these protests.
The reason for holding these protests were that the Parades Commission had banned the annual ‘Tour of the North’ feeder parades from walking the Upper Crumlin Road through the Greater Ardoyne area. As these marches regularly cause increased community tensions and riots. After the feeder parade finished, a senior Orangeman handed the RUC/PSNI a letter of protest before the whole debacle ended in serious stone throwing and a mini riot. According to the PSNI, a number of it’s members were injured during the disturbances.
Unsurprisingly for Greater Ardoyne residents, no plastic bullets at the Loyalist rioters. No water cannon was deployed against these crowds engaged in widespread rioting. To date, no one has been charged in connection with blocking the roads. Whereas last July, scores of Nationalist protesters were immediately arrested and appeared in Court charged with unlawfully blocking a major road.
Soon after these arrests, serious rioting broke out in the area by Nationalists who became inflamed by the huge military-style curfew imposed on the Greater Ardoyne area to facilitate an Orange march. Nearly 100 lethal plastic bullets were fired at local people. Some four water cannons were also used and dozens of RUC/PSNI members were injured by rioters.
The ‘Policing’ operation for the day cost the taxpayer over £2.2 million and the ensuing riots went down in history as a serious problem for a peaceful future. GARC had warned everyone that if the 12th Parade was permitted to proceed along the Crumlin Road, violence was inevitable. However, these warnings were ignored by the powers in Stormont who pushed ahead with their plans to force another unwelcome sectarian march through Ardoyne.
Now, we have again witnessed partial political policing which marred decades of the RUC’s history. Wherby, the Nationalist community were treated as second-class citizens in a British State. Where the British Police constantly mistreated Nationalists and used peaceful resistance against Apartheid rule as subversive and to be crushed at all costs.
The recent Woodvale Riots and the kid-gloves approach to the Protestant/Unionist and Loyalist community demonstrates in clear terms that like the RUC. The PSNI refuses to deal with lawbreakers within that community. Which again proves that they are unreformable and will continue to be partial to British citizens in the Occupied Six Counties.
GARC call upon the new Parades Commission not to be intimidated by Unionist violence and when it debates this year’s 12th parade through Greater Ardoyne it MUST rule in favour of local residents who want to be left in peace without enduring unwelcome marches, military-style curfews, plastic bullets and serious rioting! If there is NO PARADE, there will be NO VIOLENCE!
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