#Unionist #JohnJamesSomerville placed a bomb in the window of a #Catholic home in #Dungannon, #CountyTyrone, #NorthernIreland, in 1973 on #ThisDayInHistory, because the family grocery refused to serve soldiers. No-one was killed. Somerville later became an #evangelical minister.

Church leaders & politicians complained about the display in #Moygashel, a village in #CountyTyrone about 40 miles (65 km) west of Belfast, before it was lit Thurs night. Parts of #NorthernIreland were gripped by anti-#immigrant rioting last month amid tensions surrounding a recent influx of people from Eastern Europe.

Police said they didn’t intervene before the bonfire was lit because they can only act “within the legislative framework that exists.”

#law #HateCrime #immigration #UK #Ireland

IWW Condemn Arrests of BDS Activists

Members of the Industrial Workers of the World in the North West attended a Palestine solidarity action in Strabane, County Tyrone, for three activists arrested for BDS action at Home Bargains recently.A representative of the IWW spoke during the action, as the march began at Springhill Park, Strabane under the local Palestine mural, depicting an Israeli military attack on Gaza.Speaking on the size of the solidarity demonstration as it made its way to ‘the tinies’ a spokesperson said "The turn-o

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