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Western Sahara's freedom struggle The people of Western Sahara are still struggling for their right to self-determination and to be able to live in peace in their own land. After decades of Spanish colonial rule, they had to put up with over 30 years of occupation by Morocco. For 17 years, the Saharawis (people of the Sahara), as they call themselves, fought against Morocco's army. It was international mediation and the promise of a self-determination referendum that brought a ceasefire in 1991. Fourteen years later, the Saharawis are still waiting for the UN to fulfil its commitments. Gerry Adams engaged in dialogue with Bertie Ahern Sinn Féin confirmed this week that Gerry Adams has held a number of meetings with the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern since they met in Washington on St Patrick's Day. The meetings were held at Gerry Adams' request. Sinn Féin has also met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. PSNI attack Ballymena protestors North Antrim Sinn Féin MLA Philip McGuigan has accused the PSNI of "behaving in typical sectarian fashion" after PSNI riot squads attacked nationalists protesting against a loyalist parade through a mainly nationalist part of Ballymena on Saturday night, 4 June. Video attack officer 'repositioned' A PSNI member caught on video camera attacking a young woman during an arrest operation in the Waterside area of Derry in the early hours of Saturday 30 April has been, as the PSNI put it, "repositioned to non-operational duties", pending its investigation and that of the Police Ombudsman. However, campaigners have called for action to be taken against other PSNI members featured in the footage. Loyalists use electoral information to target Two Sinn Féin supporters' homes and a car in Coleraine were attacked by unionist paramilitaries at around midnight on Monday 6 June. The names of those targeted appeared on a list of ten people circulated in the County Derry town over the last number of days and has raised concerns that the loyalists involved may be planning more attacks. Bandsmen try to stir sectarian tensions Sinn Féin has slammed a loyalist parade along the Suffolk Road in West Belfast after a number of bandsmen shouted sectarian slogans and made offensive gestures to nationalist residents in an attempt to create trouble on Saturday last. 
Sinn Féin councillor Paul Butler is accusing the DUP, the dominant party on Lisburn City Council, of promoting sectarianism and alienating nationalists in the city after they voted at a council meeting on Tuesday 31 May to fly the Union flag permanently on all council flagpoles. Photo: The offending flag in Dunmurry A ten-year-old schoolboy escaped injury and a Polish family had their car burned out in the latest string of racist attacks in County Armagh. In the first attack just before midnight on Wednesday 1 June, pipe bombs were put through the letterbox of two houses at Brooke Manor and Milltown in Ahorey, near Richill, County Armagh. Fear of renewed loyalist feud after man is shot FEARS of renewed loyalist feuding have emerged after a man, abducted from a filling station forecourt, was found shot in the chest in a graveyard in County Down at 2.30am on Monday 6 June. The 26-year-old was found at Redburn Cemetery in Holywood by the PSNI after a resident heard a single shot and the shot man's cries for help. 
"Sinn Féin is aware that there is unprecedented alarm across civic society at the deepening crisis within the Education system and this is the message we will carry into our Ministerial meetings." So said the party's spokesperson for Education, Michael Ferguson, as he led a delegation to meet with Barry Mulholland Chief Executive of the Western Education & Library Board, at its headquarters in Omagh at the weekend to discuss the funding crisis in education caused by British Government cutbacks. Sinn Féin MLA for Mid Ulster, Geraldine Dougan, says the official opening of the newly-fortified PSNI Barracks in Magherafelt shows the intentions of the PSNI and the British Government. Instead of demilitarising their military installations throughout the Six Counties they are refortifying them with high-tech surveillence equipment, she says. English cops arrested over Stanley killing The two Metropolitan police officers responsible for the shooting of Harry Stanley on a London street on 22 September 1999, Chief Inspector Neil Sharman and Constable Kevin Fagan, were arrested by officers from Surrey police force last Wednesday on suspicion of his murder. They were formally cautioned and were also questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and gross negligence. They have been bailed to report to Surrey police on 16 June, but have not been suspended from duty. Ferris calls for safeguards to protect Irish seabed rights 
The Irish Government has staked a claim at the United Nations over the seabed rights to oil, gas and other minerals covering an area of the Atlantic Ocean over half the size of the 26 Counties. Photo: Martin Ferris TD Knocking back the nuclear option - Crucial new British energy strategy report launched One report, two conclusions; the strength of the nuclear power lobby was fully evident last week in the wake of the launch of a new report on electricity supply strategies for Britain. The Daily Telegraph proclaimed that the report was a "boost for nuclear power" and carried a headline that said "New nuclear plants backed on cost and safety grounds". Ryanair's 19% increase in profits Ireland's self-proclaimed "low cost" airline, Ryanair, recorded a 19% increase in profits last week for its 20th year in business and chief executive Michael O'Leary was as forthright as usual. But it was another airport and another second runway/terminal issue that has caught much of his attention for now. 
Hundreds of people from across Belfast gathered at Custom House Square on Saturday last to send a message to the governments of the industrialised nations to get rid of world poverty. Among the crowd, which included students groups, human rights groups and organisations such as Concern and Oxfam, who work to alleviate the burden of poverty on the world's impoverished nations, was the Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and party members Kathy Stanton, Paul Maskey and Fra McCann. Photo: Gerry Adams chats with Fr Eamon Stack, who ministered in Portadown during the worst of the Drumcree tensions in the mid to late 1990s, at the rally Policing Board admission on Plastic Bullets 
Sinn Féin spokesperson on policing, Gerry Kelly, says the admission by the Policing Board last week that their new plastic bullet breaches Patten is vindication of the Sinn Féin position both on plastic bullets and on participation on the Policing Board. SF Centenary celebrated in Wexford 
Sinn Féin Chief Negotiator and MP for Mid-Ulster, Martin McGuinness, paid an extended visit to Wexford over the past weekend as the local party organisation hosted a series of events to mark the centenary of the founding of Sinn Féin, Ireland's oldest political party. Photo: Cllr Anthony Kelly, Cllr John Dwyer, Martin McGuinness MP and Cllr Maurice Roche at the Sinn Féin Céad Bliain launch in Wexford 
Sinn Féin in Carlow/Kilkenny launched their candidate for the next General Election at a packed convention in the Clubhouse Hotel, Kilkenny on Saturday last. Twenty-four-year-old Kathleen Funchion from Callan, who is based in Kilkenny City, was the unanimous choice. Kathleen is the Leinster Cúige's Equality Officer as well as Secretary of the local Comhairle Ceantair. Photo: Martin McGuinness and Kathleen Funchion |
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