Presents the INSURGENCE INDEPENDENCE DAY SHOW
On July 4th, 1981, the Irish Republican Prisoners of War issued a statement, spelling out the five demands for the Irish political prisoners at the H-Blocks at the Long Kesh Maze Prison in asking for Special Category Political Status, asking that their sentences be deemed not crimes but political acts.
The five demands these Irish volunteers asked for included:
1. The right not to wear a prison uniform.
On July 4th, 1981, the Irish Republican Prisoners of War issued a statement, spelling out the five demands for the Irish political prisoners at the H-Blocks at the Long Kesh Maze Prison in asking for Special Category Political Status, asking that their sentences be deemed not crimes but political acts.
The five demands these Irish volunteers asked for included:
1. The right not to wear a prison uniform.
2. The right not to do prison labor.
3. The right of free association with other prisoners, and to organize educational and recreational pursuits at their behest.
4. The right to one visit, one letter and one parcel per week.
5. Full restoration of remission lost through their protest.
Radio Rebel Gael will dedicate our efforts and music to those brave heroes and heroines who gave their all for the cause of Irish Freedom, and therefore our INDEPENDENCE SHOW will be a musical tribute to these great men and women as well as all freedom fighters around the world, who dedicated their lives and/or gave their lives for the cause of National Liberation & Social Justice....
The American insurgent guerillas of the American Revolution,
The American insurgent guerillas of the American Revolution,
Irish Volunteers, Padraig Pearse, Thomas Ashe, S
eamus Diarmada, James Connolly, Tom Williams, Joe McCann, Seamus Costello, Ronnie Bunting, Noel Lyttle, Dominic and Mary McGlinchey, Miriam Daly, Maire Drumm , and the valiant ten who died in the Hunger Strike of 1981:
Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, Patsy O'Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Thomas McElwee, and Michael Devine.
Filberto Ojeda Rios and the Macheteros
Ernesto Che Guevara Lynch and the men and women of the Cuban Revolution
Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Movement
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos and the Zapatistas
Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers
Rachel Corrie and the Brave Palestinian men and women of the Intifada
And all those still fighting on for justice and Socialist Victory!
Rory Dubhdara, Radio Rebel Gael
"We must take no steps backward, our steps must be onward, for if we don't, the martyrs that died for you, for me, for this country will haunt us forever." - Maire Drumm
Blessed Are Those Who Hunger for Justice
