[van-announce] A Very Revolutionary St. Paddy's Day

[Martha Roberts]

TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 7 PM

Celebrating internationalism, revolution and socialism in the Irish
liberation struggle

Poetry, Song, and Artwork from the Irish liberation struggle.  Featuring the
songs performed by Christopher Jacob, posters and art from the struggle and
the revolutionary words of James Connolly.



*@ the Organizing Centre for Social and Economic Justice *

*672 E. Broadway (at Fraser) *

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* "I was not very long there until, like water, I found my own level. 'My
people' — the people who know about oppression, discrimination, prejudice,
poverty and the frustration and despair that they produce — were not Irish
Americans. They were black, Puerto Rican, Chicano. And those who were
supposed to be 'my people', the Irish Americans who know about English
misrule and the Famine and supported the civil-rights movement at home, and
knew that Partition and England were the cause of the problem, looked and
sounded to me like Orangemen. They said exactly the same things about blacks
that the loyalists said about us at home. In New York, I was given the key
to the city by the mayor, an honour not to be sneezed at. I gave it to the
Black Panthers."
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*Irish Civil Rights Leader Bernadette Devlin writing about her 1970s trip to
the U.S.*