ROGER CASEMENT CUMANN/TONE MC CRACKEN CUMANN SUPPORT RASHARKIN RESIDENT'S.

MEMBER'S OF THE ROGER CASEMENT CUMANN LAY A WREATH AT THE SPOT WHERE CASEMENT OFTEN REFERRED TO IN HIS LETTER'S AND WANTED BURIED.

As republicans we in the 32 county sovereignty movement are proud to stand here today and honour with pride the sacrifice that Roger Casement made to free Ireland from British rule , a goal still yet to be accomplished . Roger Casement was executed by the British by hanging on August 3rd 1916 after trying to land arms of the coast of County Kerry at Banna Strand on April 21st 1916, for use in the easter rising. It is especially significant that we remember him and the role he played in this centenary year of the formation of the 'Irish citizen army' and 'Irish volunteers' in which he played a significant part. After being executed he was buried in quicklime in Pentonville prison in England and remained there until 1965, before being returned to Ireland to be reinterred in Glasnevin cemetery after lying in state in Arbour hill were an estimated half a million people filed past his coffin. Although Roger casements remains were eventually returned to Ireland in 1965 it is here near Murlough bay , County Antrim that he referred to in his letters whilst awaiting his execution and wanted buried, a final wish yet to be achieved. It is therefore an honour for the Roger Casement Cumann of the 32 County Sovereignty movement to not only name our Cumann in memory of Casement in this centenary year but to hold our 1st commemoration here at this spot in County Antrim.

CUMANN MEMBER'S HIGHLIGHT P.O.W'S AND RUC/PSNI HARASSMENT

Protest against the sectarian marches in Glengormley

There will be a protest by Greater Glengormley Residents Collective on tues 25th June at 7.30pm at the junction of church way/church crescent (just beside lidl) against the sectarian loyalist "mini12th" march.

Don't let this go on any longer, please attend and spread the word.

Tone/McCracken and Casement Cumanns in sponsored walk to Cavehill McArt's Fort.

In Enniskillen, on Monday, against the G8

G8, an other wound in Irish sovereignty...

The world at large faces many interconnected crisis’s -food supply, water resources, energy, environmental destruction, wars– and all these are amplified by unelected “international” organisations like the G8. Lets focus on what lies in store for Ireland... Although notionally “hosting this meeting, Ireland has no place amongst the eight master nations for the New World. That the British government chooses Fermanagh to host the G8 conference neatly symbolizes the violation of sovereign democracy represented by unelected world leaders. We see our national territory used without consent; like other many nations we see this group meeting to decide the fates of our economic futures and witness the trampling of our sovereign rights by the Eight Masters. The “other 100” will have no say as the G8 plans the wholesale theft of their, and our, national natural resources by the Eight Masters and their Corporations. Inside the G8 countries, the same contempt for democracy is evident. The great majority of their citizens are disenfranchised, stripped of their democratic voice to oppose policies aimed at democratic process, and the will of these organisations becomes the fate of millions– a very effective form of international dictatorship. What about the distribution of wealth? The idea is that wealth trickles down. However, the fact is that 30 years of trickling down has given us a financial sector that has collapsed and eaten up more bailouts in a year than was spent on health care in a decade, a society where the majority is becoming poorer– some 20% of this Island’s population is living in poverty– while wealth concentrates evermore tightly into the hands of the mega-rich. The media sterilises debate, , while any potential for democracy is carefully managed by the status quo. If a republic is to be basis of the will and desires of its people, and our 1916 proclamation is, international overlords cannot be tolerated; the G8 and what it represents may not seem relevant to everyday republican struggles, but what it represents is the death of democracy– the very lifeblood of any republic. Opposing that G8 is not being from an obscure and abstract “left”, It’s being aware that our aspiration of democracy. Every Republican should be aware of that issue, that with the G8 being held on our land it’s an other wound to our sovereignty. We are calling every Republican to attend the pickets and protests organised against that G8, and in the absence of Republican events, we are calling every Republican to join the broad protest organised by the left.

(All statistics sources : Peace monitoring report number 2, available on line)