End Forced Isolation

“End forced isolation, end controlled movement, end forced strip searches”.

This is a new panel – perhaps the fourth in 2015 – in the RNU (Fb)/Cogús (Fb) mural on Northumberland Street. If you can identify the image or the style, please get in touch.

For previous panels in 2015, see Free Stephen Kaczynski | Prison Torture | Leonard Peltier

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Don’t Mourn – Organise!

Joe Hill was executed by firing squad on November 19th, 1915, at the age of 36, convicted of shooting a father and son in Utah. Before his death, he sent a telegram to Big Bill Haywood, founder-member of the IWW, saying “Don’t waste any time mourning. Organize!” (WP) The centenary of his death was marked by graffiti on Free Derry Corner.

On the back of the wall is an RNU (Fb) board showing a prisoner behind bars, a victim of internment: “End internment and Britain’s torture of Irish POWs”.

On the buttresses are IRPWA flyers: “End controlled movement now!”, “End forced isolation”, “End the brutality of republican prisoners”, “Stop the brutal & degrading strip searches”, “End the brutality in Maghaberry”, “www.irpwa.com‘.

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Civil Rights

Paddy McAteer, Vinny Coyle, Ivan Cooper and John Hume.

October 7th:

The Bogside Artists’ Civil Rights mural in Rossville Street, Derry, which was originally painted in 2004, has been repainted (in October 2015 (BBC)) and the portraits of Ivan Cooper and John Hume added.

See also the Visual History page on the Bogside Artists.

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The Details

The Detail is a Northern Ireland web-site producing news and analysis, including a four-part series of infographics called “Imaging NI”, some of which were used in a billboard campaign. The one above is in Great Victoria Street; the one below is in Strand Road, London-/Derry.

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All Refugees Welcome

Here is a gallery of graffiti in Creggan, Derry:

“All refugees welcome”, with the anarchism symbol
“Brits out, not sellout!!!”
“Political status now!!”
“IRA” and “PSNI not welcome”
old posters for events remembering the hunger strikers and current POWs
#JFTC2 – End British internment”

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Refugees Welcome

The wave of people seeking asylum from political strife in Europe continues.”Fáılte romhaıbh a chaırde” is Irish for “Welcome, friends” while “Qaxootiga soo Dhaweyn” is Somali for “Refugees welcome”. Somalis make up about 9% of the current wave of migrants from Africa and Syrians 33% (Irish Times). 2,000 refugees are to be settled in Northern Ireland (belfastlive). The yellow-on-black outline of parents and daughter running originates in the United States, used on ‘caution’ signs along highways near the US-Mexico border. 

The mural was launched on September 12th.

Northumberland Street, west Belfast

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Reclaim The Republic

The masthead of the 1916 proclamation declaring a “Provisional Government of the Irish Republic” to the “People of Ireland” is faithfully reproduced in this éırígí stencil, along with busts of Padraıg Pearse and Tom Clarke.

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