Well i just got home from Toronto. I was at the British Embassay today to protest. It went great! Geoffrey Berg who is the British General here came out front with two security guards and had a chat with me and accepted my literature I had. he told me that I could stay and informed me where I could not go.

The best part was that the Police Headquarters was right across the street. Lots of people saw us there and one guy agreed with the posters we had. The only thing was it was freezing out man! But we got the message of Bloody Sunday out.

:ph34r: CIRA

Well done, maith thu!
And what the literature you had?

BLOODY SUNDAY
On 30 January 1972, 30,000 people marched in Derry to protest internment. The march, the biggest ever organized by the Civil Rights Association, made its way towards Guildhall Square. British troops blocked the route at William Street so the people assembled at "Free Derry Corner" in the Bogside area. Suddenly, armored cars appeared from behind barriers and headed for Rossville Street. British troops effectively boxed in hundreds of people on waste-ground between the Flats and William Street. Soldiers spilled out of the armored cars, their helmets identifying them a Paratroopers. None of the soldiers carried batons and shields as riot control troops do. All were fully armed with combat rifles. They used these rifle as clubs as the waded through the crowd.
Without warning, the clear and unmistaken sound of shots from British army issue SLRs rang out. More shots, and then people began to fall. The air rang to the sound of rapid gunfire and screams. Causally soldiers fired indiscriminately, often from the hip, into a fleeing and unarmed crowd. At the end of the day, 13 people lay dead and 17 wounded, one of whom died later. One man who was photographed being arrested and taken into a British army Saracen was later found shot dead.
Within hours, the British propaganda machine was in full operation claiming that they had shot dead thirteen "gunmen" and bombers, in an attempt to justify the planned, cold-blooded murder of peaceful, unarmed civil rights protesters.
The Irish Republican Army was now the last resort of the nationalist people. To protect them from the combined official and unofficial forces of the 6-County statelet, and then to go on the offensive to rid Ireland once and for all of British interference and tyranny, the IRA was forced to reorganize from near extinction. With nothing available but a few old and unreliable weapons, the ranks of the IRA were nonetheless swelled by a risen people who would no longer wait to be crushed by the British State.
The Victims of Bloody Sunday
The DEAD
Jack Duddy
17yrs.Shot by paras as he ran across the coutyard of Rossville Street Flats.
Hugh Gilmore
17yrs.Shot and killed as he ran up Rossville Street.
Berard McGuigan
41yrs.Shot and killed as he crawld towards the body of Patrick Doherty beside Rossville Flats.
Gerald McKinney
35yrs.Shot and killed as he ran TOWARDS soldiers WITH HIS HANDS RAISED in Glenfadda Park.
Kevin McElhinney
17yrs.Shot and killed as he crawled towards a doorway in Rossville Street.
John Young
17yrs.Shot and killed as he stood beside a rubble barricade stretching across Rossville Street.
Michael McDaid
20yrs.Shot and killed whilst standing in the same group at the barricade.
William Nash
19yrs.Shot and killed at the same barricade at Rossville Street.
Michael Kelly
17yrs.Shot and killed as he stood near a rubbish pile near the entrance of Glenfadda Park.
Patrick Doherty
31yrs.Shot and killed while crawling towards Rossville Flats.
James Wray
22yrs.Shot and wouned as he ran through an alleyway from Glenfadda Park to Abbey Park then shot again and killed.
John Johnston
59yrs.Shot and wounded.Succumbed to his wounds in June 1972 becomming the fourteenh casuality of Bloody Sunday.
If you think of me at all weep a gentle tear of joy for I laid my life on freedoms door