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Always Avoid Violence

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2014-09-06 LetNoManPalestine+

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him”. In a sermon on November 4th, 1956 (and repeated on other occasions), Martin Luther King, Jr. imagined a letter from Paul to the Christians of America, expressing concern for spiritual life in a capitalist society and appealing for desegregation of society using non-violent methods: “the weapon of love”, keeping in mind “that you are merely seeking justice for him as well as yourself”.

Click for audio – the remark quoted occurs at the 3 minute mark of section 4 (archive.org) | Text (1958) – see page 7 (= 344)

The image below shows the site in mid-August, without the pro-Palestine boards (for an Irish-language version of which see An Phalaıstín/Palestine; the image above is from the first week of September, 2014.

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Man Against Machine

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2014-09-01 GazaTankFlag2+

Above is a detail from the Gerard “Mo Chara” Kelly mural at the northern end of Springhill Avenue: a lone figure in Palestinian colours is about to hurl a Molotov cocktail at a tank in Israeli blue-and-white with a (reversed-Nazi) swastika on its side.

The full mural is shown below. The portion to the left appeared in Palestine Abú and the portion to the right in Hellfire.

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Palestine Abú

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2014-09-01 PalestineAbu+

Here is another piece of the new Gerard “Mo Chara” Kelly murals in Springhill: a figure in a black-and white keffiyeh give the two-finger ‘V for victory’ sign beneath the Terence McSwiney (WP) quote: It is not those who can inflict the most but those that can suffer the most who will conquer.

Previously: Hellfire

Previously at this location: A Dead End

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Yes Scotland/Viva Ireland

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2014-09-08 YesScotlandBarracks+

Black Mountain/Slıabh Dubh’s ‘Viva Palestine‘ became ‘Viva Ireland’ – shown below – which in turn was quickly replaced with ‘Yes Scotland’, shown above as seen over the wall of the Springfield PSNI barracks from the (Protestant) Springmartin Road: a union flag and a St. Andrew’s (Scottish) saltire fly from houses in the foreground. These two flags are being used in the media to represent the opposing sides: the Saltire for ‘Yes’ and the Union flag for ‘No’. Scots go to the polls on Thursday the 18th; the two polls of the past week (You-Gov | TNS) suggest that the sides are running neck-and-neck.

Previously: A message To The People Of Scotland

See also: the Slıabh Dubh Visual History page.

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Oh, Paddy Boy

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2014-09-06 BarnesDetail+

Paddy Barnes fights India’s Devendro Singh Laishram in the light flyweight gold-medal bout at the 2014 Commonwealth games in Glasgow. Barnes won gold, successfully defending his title and adding to his collection, shown in the second image (below) and listed at the bottom of the mural (third image, below). Barnes sparked controversy when he remarked, as the Londonderry Air/Danny Boy was played as the Northern Irish “anthem”, “That’s not my national anthem.”. The mural is in Barnes’s home area of Ardoyne/Ard Eoın and was painted by Lucas Quigley and Mickey Doherty.

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An Phalaıstín/Palestine

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2014-08-19 Ghearleanuint+

Pro-Palestine board outside the north Belfast Sınn Féın office on the Antrim Road showing a bloody hand-print and the face of a crying child: “Stad leıs an ghéarleanúınt – ag tacú le cearta na Palaıstíne” : “Stop the persecution – supporting Palestinian rights”. The close-up of the hand and face, below, is taken from an English-language version of the board in Beechmount Street. The third image is of the same board at the Glen Road/Andersonstown Road junction.

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Hellfire

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2014-09-01 GazaCopterRed+

An Israeli Apache helicopter fires a Hellfire missile at a young Gazan boy carrying a teddy-bear. This is one of the panels of Gerard “Mo Chara” Kelly‘s (video) new work in Springhill, begun over a month ago and comprising seven panels. This one reproduces a Carlos Latuff (ig) image.

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To The People Of Scotland

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2014-08-26 RockScotland+

Scots and other residents of Scotland go to the polls on September 18th to vote on independence (WP). The Rock Bar uses the image of Mel Gibson in Braveheart to encourage them to vote “Yes’; recent polls show a slight but persistent preference for a “no” response.  In the background of the wide shot (below), the Viva Palestine lettering can still (2014-08-26) be seen on Slıabh Dubh/Black Mountain.

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Justice

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2014-06-14 JFTC2Chains+

The Craigavon Two – John-Paul Wootton and Brendan McConville – were convicted of the 2009 murder of PSNI Constable Steven Carroll; ‘JTFC2′ or ‘Justice For The Craigavon Two‘ is the group campaigning for their release. The mural above shows two pairs of arms in chains, surrounded by a border of chains.

Replaces the right-hand side of Think Independently. See previously: JFTC2

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Stad An Slad/Stop The Slaughter

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2014-08-07 StadAnSlad+

This is a new board at the Crumlin end of Brompton Park – launched on August 6th by Gerry Kelly and members of the Cliftonville football team – in support of Palestine and Gaza, and in particular protesting the deaths of the four Bakr children on the beach at the port of Gaza on July 16th (see Child Killers). The image of the man carrying the boy is from Reuters. The wide shot, below, shows the “peace” line and union jacks flying at the camp at the Crumlin-Woodvale-Twaddell roundabout.

See also: a Where Is The World? mural on the International Wall.

Painted by Mickey Doherty and mounted in Brompton Park, Ardoyne, north Belfast.

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