Shawn Kenny, an Irishman and a member of the Chile-Ireland Solidarity Committee, speaking in Minneapolis at a meeting sponsored by Minnesota Clergy and Laity Concerned and the United Church of Christ.
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Is also a member of the world peace Council and international director of the Sinn Fein Workers Party in Ireland its party the struggling non-violently for the return of peace to Ireland and he's bringing us a message of international solidarity with the people of Chile. Mr. Sean Fein. Shawn Jennings Christmas in Irish Conrad's it is Triple H for me to stay here this evening at a conference on the issue of chili and Ireland. We have 98 million refugees house for sale country by the Junta and we have a very active Ireland chili solidarity Committee in existence that September Day in 1973 recently visited Ireland and spoke with large regions and Victor jarosz weather in Dublin in September speaking as a meeting. The resolution passed about missing in Dublin was sent to the Dublin government asking them to get their Ambassador at the United Nations to support the call for the jumped to release the names of the information on the missing persons in Chile. So in Ireland Auto troubles all our difficulties with the the console on a section of our country by British imperialism. We feel as a movement involved in struggle in Ireland that the struggle of the Irish people. It's a struggle of the peoples of the world. I should say a few words on the Irish situation. There are many forces involved in Northern Ireland and a Riesling forces in particular the paramilitary groups and the British army the demand in Northern Ireland since 1968 has been the demand for basic civil rights civil rights, which has the British government refused to give to that section of the United Kingdom, which is called North Northern, Ireland. The campaign in Ireland is to bring peace to Northern Ireland to allow the Working Class People in Northern Ireland to get back to the real struggle, which is a struggle for housing struggle for jobs and a struggle for basic civil rights and all the British government have given to the citizens of Northern Ireland during the last eight years has been repressive legislation despite the demands of thousands of working people in Northern Ireland for civil rights and an interrogation and unfortunately most of the information on Ireland comes to you via the wire service in the UPI and AP wire service is responsible for confusing many good people around the world with the Progressive Movement would be involved in helping the Irish situation bring about peace if they're really understood that are struggling Ireland is a social economic and political. How to become CEO has consoled by an outside power and British troops out in Ireland not to keep the peace for to suppress the interest in the feelings of the Irish Working Class People and that's why this evening. I felt that I should say a few words as a person involved in the Ireland chili solidarity Community movement in Ireland and there's a person involved also in at the band in Ireland for basic civil rights and as a socialist from Ireland and that is why we say clearly applied. We are struggling in Ireland to bring about conditions suitable to the working people were a wealthy country American multinationals are in there ripping off our wealth the Working Class. People are deprived just going back into the bank accounts of the wealthy few is creating a working car struggling Ireland, which will bring about peace democracy and socialism.