“End The Forced Strip Search” – IRPWA (web) board in Westland Street, Bogside, Derry. In the name “Maghaberry” a fist is smashing the enlarged “H”, reminiscent of the ‘Smash H-Block’ campaign of the 70s and 80s.
See also Stop Forced Strip Searching! from 2014 (which includes links to background article) and End British Internment! from 2013.
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Tomás [Thomas] Ashe Mellon was recently (June, 2014) charged with directing the activities of the New IRA (which was formed in 2012 from the Real IRA and Republican Action Against Drugs) via a letter that was being smuggled into Maghaberry by William McDonnell and denied bail; in March (2015) he admitted possession of the note (and received 40 months) but pleaded not guilty to the charge of directing terrorism (Derry Daily | BBC | Derry Daily).
This board protesting Mellon’s “intern[ment] by Britain” is in Westland Street, in Derry’s Bogside.
Update: In July, Mellon was acquitted of directing terrorism (Irish News).
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The Craigavon Two – John-Paul Wootton and Brendan McConville – were convicted of and unsuccessfully appealed (Guardian | BBC) the 2009 murder of PSNI Constable Steven Carroll; campaigners on Facebook (one | two) continue to call for their release.
The graffiti and stencilled portraits of the pair are in the Bogside, Derry.
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Springhill Park, Strabane
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“Scaırt Amach – the voice of Irish republican prisoners – Maghaberry, Portlaoise, Hydebank”. Scaırt Amach (“Shout Out”) is a magazine containing articles by republican prisoners in the three prisons.
This IRPWA (web) mural reproduces the cover of the magazine, on the International Wall, Divis Street (Visual History), west Belfast.
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Palestinian icon Leila Khaled, who took part in aeroplane hijackings in 1969 and 1970, is featured in this new mural pro-Gaza mural in Hugo Street. The central portrait is a replication of a famous photo by Eddie Adams (WP), taken after her first skyjacking; she then underwent plastic surgery to disguise her identity prior to the 1970 attempt (WP).
Khaled is also featured in the pro-Gaza mural in McQuillan Street: Oppression Breeds Resistance
This mural replaces the right-hand side of Think Independently, Vote Independently.
On the left is an éirígí stencil calling for “Acht Na Gaeılge Anoıs!!!” – “An Irish Language Act Now!!!” The Belfast Telegraph reports that an Irish language bill will be published in the near future, though the DUP have already rejected such an Act. (For more background and discussion see Brian Walker’s post on Slugger.)
In the middle remains JFTC2.
Hugo Street, west Belfast
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The ‘Vote Tommy Doherty’ portion of this RNU mural on Northumberland Street (Visual History) has been replaced with a pro-Palestinian message – a clenched fist in the colours of Palestine between the emblems of the RNU and the Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine. The Arabic reads “Our day is coming”/”Tıocfaidh ár lá”.
يومنا قادم
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“End internment – end forced strip searching [in] HMP Maghaberry”. For background, see The Detail | BBC | Socialist Worker.
IRPWA (web) board on Eastway, Derry.
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“Welcome to Creggan – watch your back on the way out” and “Welcome to the Bogside – RUC beware”. The (anti-Agreement/perhaps “New”) IRA volunteers are shown wearing balaclavas and holding an RPG and an assault rifle.
Eastway and Westland Street, Derry
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Here is a gallery of graffiti from the Bogside (Meenan Square and around the Bogside Inn): “Death to Israel – God bless Hamas”, “RUC scum”, “All touts will be shot dead!”, “End loyalist marches now”, “Kill all RUC members now!”
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