Dollar bills spew from the exhaust pipes of bulldozers driven by cigar-smoking financiers as they bear down on a chain of protesters in this Amnesty International board at the corner of Northumberland and Beverley Streets.
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X00923 end forced evictions, demand dignity, justice, hope, homes, rights, security, join amnesty and take action for human rights worldwide http://www.amnesty.org.uk/join
Fourteen Union jacks stencilled on the wall just above the (upper/Shankill Road side) security gates on Northumberland St.
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A flyer on the Falls Road, with illustration by Brazilian artist Carlos Latuff (one | two), announcing a march commemorating Bloody Sunday, which occurred on January 30th, 1972 (WP). Bernadette (Devlin) McAliskey was (from 1969 onward) a spokesperson for nationalists in Derry and was present in 1972.
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X00925 bloodysundaymarch.org speaker civil rights march, 27th jan 2013, assemble creggan shops 2.30pm
Stories from mythical Ireland including the Children Of Lear, Oısín & Nıamh, and the Salmon Of Knowledge are depicted in a 2006 mural painted by Mo Chara with the children of the Whiterock Children’s Centre.
Whiterock Road, west Belfast.
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Protests over the December 3rd vote not to fly the union jack every day at Belfast City Hall continued last night (2012-12-17 — video from BBC-NI | U.tv). The image above shows a flag flying on the loyalist side framed by the pedestrian gate on Northumberland Street. The image below shows one shot across the Cupar Way “peace” line, from Conway Street.
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“You might easy know a doffer when she comes to town/With her long yellow hair and her pickers hanging down/With her rubber ties [tied] before her and her scraper in her hand. … [the verse concludes: She’ll never get a man]” (Traditional Music). Conway Mill closed in the mid-70s but from 1982 onward has been used for community development; since 2000 it has been a listed building (Conway Mill).
Conway Street, west Belfast.
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A new board commemorating Pat Finucane (WP), on Beechmount Avenue. A British report into his death was published yesterday, 2012-12-12 (Tele | BBC-NI | Slugger).
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X00773 human rights activist pat finucane 1949-1989 targeted by british establishment executed by unionist death squads, if you don’t defend human rights lawyers who will defend human rights? rosemary nelson (WP)
South side of Divis St./Falls Rd., directly across from North Howard St/Falls Leisure Center.
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The gate and peace line at the eastern end of Cupar Way. The boards are on the republican side, on North Howard Street, encouraging interaction between Catholics and Protestants: “There’s more in common … than what divides us.”
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X00751 there’s more in common than what divides us, divis youth project glencairn
éırígí stencil-on-boards on Northumberland St. & Divis St. in sharp contrast to the advertising hoardings above.
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X00749 130,000 out of work, 1 in 5 children live in poverty, stormont isn’t working!!
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