Ooopppsss typed to fast just woke up!

Bloody Sunday



So how do you remember them?
Do you have a minute of silence or.................?

:ph34r: CIRA

I was at the London Bloody Sunday Commoration last Sunday.

It was a great success, speakers were:

John McDonnell MP
Barry McElduff SF MLA
Gerry Duddy Bloody Sunday Relatives
Damien (Bubbles) Donaghey (the first one shot on Bloody Sunday)
A brother of one of the Columbia 3

The best anyonce can do (if possible) is to be in Derry this weekend where a lot of events are scheduled. Te climax of course will be a march from the Creggan shops on Sunday at 2.30 pm.

Wherever you are let everyone know about the state murder of the 14 innocents.


Slan,

Daithi

As for me I write in French forums about it

Tres bien Charlotte, merci :rolleyes:

Mais de rien ;)

I got this brilliant idea but a bit too late for this year. Next year I'm going to recruit 13 volunteers (pun intended) to help me and we're going to make lifesized dolls of each person murdered by the Crown forces on Bloody Sunday. On the day each volunteer will take their doll somewhere in downtown Helsinki, if at all possible so that their locations in relation to one another bear some resemblance to actual events. Each doll will of course represent a specific person and the volunteer assigned to the doll will have to memorize everything about that person in particular and of course Bloody Sunday in general.

Then we'll educate people with the dolls. "This is Bernard McGuigan, also known as Barney, murdered by soldiers shooting from about where that shop is right now. He was waving this white handkerchief you see in his hand at the time, but was shot down anyway. The soldier shooting him later said that he had what looked like a rifle in his hands. Yes, he was shot in the back of his head." I'm sure it would be so much more real to people if they saw the results in their own town. Saw the distances in question and so forth.

why dolls? Maybe real persons. You could have a reconstitution ?
Only a suggestion

A reconstruction was the idea. I was thinking dolls because I'm not sure how many volunteers I can raise for this, and you need to have one guy standing to talk to people. So I'd need 28 people. Also this time of the year tends to be a bit on the chilly side here in Finland so I'm not sure I can persuade someone to lie on the ground in sub-zero temperatures for very long.

Not a bad idea, though.

Can't your 13 volunteers both act and talk to people? Something like "I am Gerald Donaghy, I'm 17, I am running for safety and I am being shot"?

I prefer Noel's variant... + A note at our web-site..