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RADIO REBEL GAEL PaddyCast # 25 – Keep Fenian Faith Alive !






Featuring new music by Ray Collins, Jerry Mc Cusker, Pol Mac Adaim, Margo, Marks Men, The Wakes, Claymore, Birmingham Six, The Wakes, The Tossers and the Stiff Little Fingers !



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RADIO REBEL GAEL PaddyCast 24: The Celtibilly Moonshiner

RADIO REBEL GAEL PaddyCast # 24 – The Celtibilly Moonshiner






Dedicated to Celtic musicians influenced by Bluegrass or that Appalachian Hillbilly sound !

With some non-Celtic Hillbilly musicians as well ! Musical moonshine intoxication across that Celtibilly Nation !



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RADIO REBEL GAEL PaddyCast 23 - Disarm With Irish Charm

RADIO REBEL GAEL PaddyCast # 23 – Disarm With Irish Charm






With lots of new music by The Mighty Regis, The Mahones, The Indulgers, Beltaine’s Fire, The Dirty Filthy Mugs, The Freemen, Pipes & Pints, Annie & Francie Brolly and tons more !




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REMEMBER PAT FINUCANE

Pat was a human rights soliciter from Belfast who was gunned down 12 February 1989 in front of his wife and children by the pro-British UDA. He was perceived as enemy by loyalists because he had successfully challenged the British Government over several important human rights cases. It has since come to light that one of those involved in his murder was the notorious double agent Brian Nelson.

Headline: RUC Held Back Finucane Murder Confession to Protect Informants
Source: Sunday Times



Issue Date: Sunday October 15, 2000 The RUC got a detailed verbal confession to the murder of Pat Finucane, a Belfast solicitor, two years after his death but the force's special branch prevented detectives from launching a prosecution in order to protect key informants, The Sunday Times has learned.



The confession was given in 1991 to two detectives, who are now co-operating with Sir John Stevens' inquiry into collusion between loyalists and the security forces.



One of the CID officers who is co-operating with Stevens is Sergeant Johnston Brown, a hate figure among loyalist terrorists whose home was damaged in a bomb attack by the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) last week.



Brown was responsible for the original imprisonment of Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair.



The confession to the February 1989 murder of Finucane is alleged to have been made by a terrorist to three police officers whose support he wanted to enlist. A Special Branch constable decided that the confession could not be acted on.



This decision was appealed by Brown and considered at the highest level of Special Branch. A murder investigation at that time would have exposed the role of Brian Nelson, the army's highest-ranking mole within the UFF, who had given Finucane's killer details of the Catholic solicitor's movements and his photograph. An investigation would also have endangered other police agents.



Stevens' inquiry has already uncovered a web of deceit involving the Force Research Unit (FRU), an undercover army unit which ran agents within loyalist and republican paramilitaries. Nelson, an FRU agent later jailed for conspiracy to commit murder, was acting as the head of intelligence for the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) in Belfast.



He gave the organisation' s entire intelligence files, in effect its death lists, to the FRU, who helped him collate the material on computer discs, made copies, and then returned it to the UDA.



The idea was to prevent UDA murders, but a number went ahead, including that of Finucane.



There have also been claims that Nelson was used to stop the UDA killing a top FRU agent within the IRA, known by the code name Steak Knife. One of Nelson's handlers, who now works in the army's secret intelligence wing headquarters at Chicksands, is said to have substituted the name of Francisco Notarantonio for Steak Knife's in order to save the agent.



Notarantonio, a pensioner with no IRA involvement since the 1940s, was murdered in his home in October 1987. His family have said that the killers dropped a British Army map showing the route to his home.



Commander Hugh Orde of the Metropolitan police, who heads the Stevens inquiry on a day-to-day basis, said last night that he had not recovered material to substantiate a link between Steak Knife and Notarantonio' s murder but was continuing to investigate "all elements of the killing which relate to collusion".



Orde wants to reinterview a former FRU soldier about the Steak Knife affair. The soldier has been accused by the Ministry of Defence of being Martin Ingram, the source of a number of articles in The Sunday Times about FRU dirty tricks.



Brown's allegations to the Stevens inquiry will add weight to the suspicion that murders were allowed to go ahead, or went uninvestigated, when they might have jeopardised the role of important agents, such as Nelson and Steak Knife.



Last night Brown said: "I can confirm that my journals have been seized by the Stevens inquiry and that I am co-operating with them. I cannot comment further on an ongoing investigation. "

RADIO REBEL GAEL PaddyCast 22 - Love Is A Battlefield

RADIO REBEL GAEL PaddyCast # 22 – Love Is A Battlefield






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RADIO REBEL GAEL PaddyCast 21 - The Frosty February Fandango

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WORKERS OCCUPY WATERFORD FACTORY

Ireland: Workers occupy Waterford crystal factory
By Steve James
3 February 2009

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/wate-f03.shtml

Two hundred workers have occupied the historic Waterford Crystal plant and visitor centre at Kilbarry near Waterford, Ireland. The occupation was launched on Friday in response to the decision by the failed company's receiver to cease manufacturing production, lock out and sack some 480 workers. Local shops have supplied food and drinks.



The move by the receiver, in conditions of deepening economic crisis in Ireland and internationally, emerged after David Carson, of receivers Deloitte, reneged on a previous pledge to maintain production at the site that produces luxury crystal for the world market.



Negotiations have been ongoing for some weeks with two prospective buyers. Both KPS Capital and Clarion Capital are considering buying the Waterford Wedgewood group, but reportedly only intend to maintain 300 jobs at the plant out of the current 800.



Union officials had made clear they would do nothing to protect workers' jobs. Clarion has now submitted a bid that has been given approval by the Unite trade union, with regional secretary Jimmy Kelly stating that the union was "encouraged". Clarion's plans for the plant would retain
only 300 workers. It specialises in leveraged capital investment in luxury, healthcare, insurance and advertising industries. KPS do the same in basic manufacturing. Both are New York-based venture capitalists.

According to RTE, just 200 workers were asked to turn up for work yesterday—those who were not served with termination of employment letters on Friday evening. Unite urged the 200 employees to report for work as normal.



Waterford Wedgewood was placed in administration last month following a refusal by bankers to extend credit. The company employs 800 workers in Waterford and 6,000 worldwide, including 1,500 in Indonesia. Other outsourced operations are in Brazil, Romania and Slovenia. The company collapsed after missing a deadline on €449 million debt. The pension scheme is also €111 million in debt and is likely to be wound up. Some 367 redundancies have also been confirmed in Staffordshire in the UK, where 1,900 remain employed by the company.



The occupation is proof that broad sections of workers are seeking collective means to resist the sharp onslaught on living standards that the world financial crisis is bringing in its wake. The same day Ireland was warned that its state creditworthiness faced being downgraded on Moody's, the international credit agency.



Carson's intention to cease glass production and close the popular visitor centre was leaked by former managers to workers and union officials. Word spread quickly to Waterford Wedgewood workers and 60 or 70 rushed to the site to prevent the entire workforce being locked out.

For others the first indication of a lock-out was when the security staff shut the doors. No official notification was issued to either staff, or apparently the trade union Unite.



Private security teams that had been on site over the last few weeks attempted to bar access, but workers were able to seize control of both the visitor centre and the production plant. One person reportedly received minor injuries when a pane of glass was smashed in scuffles.

Around 100 workers slept in the factory over Friday night. Colleagues and relatives brought bedding and food, while an eight hour shift rota was drawn to ensure up to 40 workers were on site at any time. Workers say they are committed to remain on site until the decision to close the
plant is reversed. A demonstration was held outside the plant Saturday, which was attended by some 2,000 supporters.



Many of the older workforce have been employed at Waterford for decades, have built up pensions that are now imperilled, and have little prospect of alternative employment.



John Dooley, one of the workers involved, told the Irish Times that he is still due €30,000 in redundancy payments out of €55,000 from the company. "€55,000 is small enough money for 46 years service, and it would take small enough money from the government to keep this place
open, at least until a new buyer can be found. We are going to stay here for the long haul. We have nothing to lose".



Dooley joined the company in 1962.



"Today they've pulled the plug on us", said Jean Croke to the Irish Independent. "We're being forgotten. A lot of us came here straight from school, we've worked nowhere else. How are we going to get jobs now? There's nothing out there for us".



Statements by union officials make clear that Unite has been working closely with the company since it was placed in receivership earlier in January. Throughout the decay of Waterford Wedgewood, a process in which many thousands of jobs have already been lost, relations between the company and Unite have been amicable.



Unite's primary concern is to ensure that job losses are packaged in a manner that can be easily foisted upon the workforce—through "natural wastage" and so-called "voluntary" redundancy. Kelly promised on January 5, "The union will work closely with any prospective purchasers of the business so as to ensure we save the maximum number of quality jobs". Walter Cullen, another Unite regional official, told the press of a phone conversation he had with Carson, shortly after the closure was announced.



"I reminded him that he was breaking his word, that he had given us a firm commitment that there would be no large-scale redundancies similar to what was imposed in Wedgwood, and that if a decision was made to close the company, he would meet with us to hold discussions, because we have alternatives. What we need now is to re-establish the process, and this decision has to be reversed".



As well as collaborating with potential buyers, the Irish trade unions are currently involved in talks with the Irish government to create a new "partnership" agreement to ensure that the costs of the collapsing economy and the huge bailouts to Irish banks are passed onto the working
class in the form of an extended pay freeze.



At this point no agreement has been reached, since the government are seeking support for swinging public sector pay cuts, which the union bureaucracy do not relish seeking to impose. The government are seeking to save €2 billion immediately. But new agreement, formal or informal, there will be, following on from decades of partnership agreements between the trade unions, business and government.



Nothing can be defended through trade unions tied in every aspect of their existence to Irish and international capital. Rather the first steps taken by Waterford Wedgewood workers should be a point of departure in the development of independent workers' committees, aiming to mobilise the immense reservoir of support amongst the broader working population, in Ireland and internationally, who face the same pressures on their living standard from the same source—the breakdown of world capitalism.

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Help Leonard Peltier win his Freedom !!!

We have a unique situation; a rare moment in history; where Leonard may have a chance at a pardon, or at the very least, release, by the next president who has a strong history paralleling the plight of the American Indian. If Obama does not pardon Leonard he will die in prison for a crime he did not commit.

President Clinton was going to pardon him when he left office, but 150 fully armed FBI agents cordoned off the White House in a silent threat. Clinton did not pardon Leonard, but he did pardon a convicted drug dealer who was involved with his brother.

For those who do not know who Leonard Peltier is, he is an American Indian, the Lokota tribe, who was arrested and convicted of murdering two FBI agents, an act which even the prosecuting attorney admitted in open court, and recorded in the court... "We do not know who killed the two agents, but someone has to pay."

One other point, Leonard was convicted on the sole tesitmony of a mentally unstable woman, who was not present at the incident at Oglala. When Leonard won a new trial, the same judge who allowed this woman to testify against Leonard, denied her from testifying on Leonard's behalf, based upon her being "unfit to give testimony".

These two points alone should raise the democratic flag of "guilty beyond a shadow of doubt".

That is all I wanted to say. If you can find it in your heart to inquire, just Google Leonard Peltier, and you will find vast references.

My purpose in bringing this to your attention is to ask that you write a letter in Leonard's support.

Richard
Chicago

--- On Fri, 1/9/09, info@FreePeltierNow.org .. wrote:

From: info@FreePeltierNow.org ..
Subject: Urgent Message: Peltier's Transfer
To: ricoworld@ameritech.net
/> Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 10:48 PM

Forwarded on behalf of the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee


09 Jan 2009
7:30 p.m.


Thursday afternoon, we were notified that Leonard would be
transferred on Monday. We don't know which facility he will be
assigned to, but we want to ask everyone to email/fax the officials
at the Federal Bureau of Prisons Designation and Sentence Computation
Center (DSCC) in Grand Prairie, TX.

Email: GRA-DSC/PolicyCorrespondence&AdminRemedies@bop.gov
/> Fax to: 972-352-4395

Re: Leonard Peltier 89637-132

Inform them the Turtle Mountain Tribal Council has passed a
resolution to have Leonard there. In addition, there are two other
federal facilities, Sandstone, MN & Oxford, WI, which Leonard could
be assigned to which will allow his relatives to come and see him.

This transfer will offset his parole hearing scheduled for February,
and we won't have any information until Leonard has arrived at his
next facility.

I would also ask you to send up a prayer for my brother, along with
your messages supporting his transfer to these locations. We still
have his parole and clemency to concentrate on after he arrives
at what our family hopes will be the last stop of our 33-year-old
nightmare. I can't begin to imagine the insanity of being locked
away for so long, and the whole time you know you are innocent as
the rest of the world outside of America does.

This nightmare has to end now and it is going to take each and
everyone one of you to make an active stand to help end it. For years
we have said that Leonard could have been any one of you. Anyone
with a conscience, heart and soul who dares to speak up against
the government could end up falsely imprisoned or dead.

My brother was in South Dakota that day to help provide safety to
a community of Elders and traditional people. He and his friends
in the American Indian Movement were asked to come there. Leonard
didn't have to, but he is a very unselfish person, so without
regard to his own safety, he went to Oglala. Everyone can see the
Robert Redford film "Incident at Oglala", and Leonard's trials,
for all of the details about what happened there.

This February 6th will mark 33 years since his arrest and so much
has happened. A generation has been born and is having children,
many of Leonard's friends and family has passed on, and the world
has moved on. Maybe that is a way to understand what it feels to be
falsely imprisoned and to live a nightmare. A life sentence is really
a sentence of death. And being innocent is a 24/7 torture. All you
have to look forward to is another day like yesterday with tomorrow
being no better.

My brother has two life sentences to look forward through, and it
is his belief, as well as mine, that he will come home. Keep sending
us your prayers and support so that we can break down those walls!

Thank you,


Betty Ann Peltier-Solano
Executive Coordinator
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee

----


Time to set him free... Because it is the RIGHT thing to do.

Friends of Peltier
http://www.FreePeltierNow.org



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