"An Indian’s search for identity reaches fruition on Emerald Isle; Irish famine, tribe’s relocation created a bond" by Helen O’Neill, Associated Press | July 11, 2010
NEW YORK — “Black ’47,’’ the Irish named it, one of the worst years of the Potato Famine. More than a million people died of disease and starvation during The Great Hunger and another million fled on “coffin ships’’ to America.
Far and Away, huh?
A world away, another sorrowing people heard their cries. Under Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy, the Choctaw had been displaced from their homeland in Mississippi just a decade earlier and forced to march 600 miles to Oklahoma, thousands dying along the way. With memories of the Trail of Tears still fresh, they collected $170 — today’s equivalent of about $8,000 — and sent it to the starving people across the sea.
The Choctaw donation was largely forgotten until the 1990s when Irish researchers discovered references to it and other small donations from around the world during preparations for the 150th anniversary of the famine....
Then why am I reading about it in 2010?
On both sides of the Atlantic, the story has changed lives, prompted donations to other starving nations, spurred Irish presidential visits, and forged deep bonds between the Choctaw and the Irish....
Gary White Deer was impressed by the tireless energy of Don Mullan, a human rights activist who had worked with nonprofit organizations fighting hunger around the world, and by his faith that nonviolent activism can affect real change....
If we don't have that then it is revolution and war, isn't it
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"Belfast police, Catholic demonstrators clash over annual Protestant parades" by Associated Press | July 13, 2010
BELFAST — Police battled Irish nationalists for control of a Belfast road yesterday as a day dominated by peaceful Protestant parades across Northern Ireland turned violent when night fell.
Related: Irish Are No Fools
And neither are we, MSM.
Riot police in helmets and body armor dragged kicking, flailing protesters from the pavement of Crumlin Road as other demonstrators packed into side streets pelted police with rocks, bricks, and Molotov cocktails.
Police deployed a massive mobile water cannon to blast the rioters while a helicopter overhead monitored the mob.
The violence, beside a hard-line Catholic district called Ardoyne, followed daylong parades across Northern Ireland by the Orange Order, a conservative Protestant brotherhood that each July 12 celebrates its side’s 17th-century military triumphs over Irish Catholics.
Looks like a Protestant provocation to me.
For the past decade, Ardoyne Catholics have protested — and often attacked — the small Orange parade that passes near the district.
Police said they had no doubt that protesters and police were injured yesterday, but had no immediate figures on casualties.
The latest trouble occurs on top of rioting in two other Catholic parts of Belfast early yesterday. Police said 27 of their officers were hurt.
Politicians accused Irish Republican Army dissidents opposed to Northern Ireland’s peace process of directing the riots and a series of other attacks across the British territory.
I wonder which MI-5 or MI-6 officer is handling the cell.
In the town of Lurgan, masked youths in Kilwilkie threw Molotov cocktails at police and at a train. No one on the train was hurt.
A sure sign of them.
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"N. Ireland leaders condemn attacks on police" by Associated Press | July 14, 2010
BELFAST — Northern Ireland leaders yesterday condemned Irish nationalist rioters who wounded 82 police officers during two nights of street clashes sparked by the province’s annual parades by the British Protestant majority.
Although most of the injured officers suffered only cuts and bruises, others suffered burns and broken hands. Two remained hospitalized: a policeman wounded in the chest and arms by a shotgun blast, and a policewoman who had a paving stone dropped on her head from a shop’s rooftop.
The violence in working-class Catholic parts of Belfast and other towns came before and after tens of thousands of Protestants of the Orange Order brotherhood marched at 18 locations across Northern Ireland in an annual show of communal strength. It was the worst rioting in Belfast since the same event a year ago.
Politicians and police commanders said the rioters were influenced by Irish Republican Army dissidents opposed to compromise.
The Northern Ireland police commander, Chief Constable Matt Baggott, released video of Monday’s rioting in two parts of Belfast captured by surveillance helicopters. The footage showed hundreds of masked teens and young men swarming and pummeling police armored vehicles and swinging clubs at ranks of shield-wielding police.--more--"
