NIFC Free Form Video Discusses Elections, Abstentionism Segment Six of the NIFC Free-form Video Discussion Series Saerbhreathach Mac Toirdealbhaigh • 6 March 2007 In this segment co-host Pat Williams was joined, via phone, by Justin Turley, a California based activist who stood-in for the regular co-host Brian Wardlow. Justin and Pat discussed the Republican Movement's involvement in elections, from the historic all-Ireland general election of 1918, to Clann na Poblachta, who despite holding the balance of power in 1948 were unable to succeed in bringing about any change regarding the partition of Ireland. Other issues touched on were the 1957 general election when four Sinn Fein candidates were elected on an abstentionist platform as well as the significance of the principle of abstaining from the partitionist parliaments of Leinster house and Stormont. Justin made reference to the Republican candidates who are standing on the principled platform of abstention in the forthcoming elections in the six counties. Also, a number of comparisons were made between the non-sectarian Eire Nua proposals, and the current sectarian system where politics are based on "orange and green".   Free-form discussion video, segment 6 (Windows Media File) National Irish Freedom Committee                                                                                         Index: Current Articles + Latest News and Views + Book Reviews + Letters + Archives

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it. - Frank Zappa Index: Current Articles 18 March 2007 Other Articles From This Issue: How I Almost Got My Ass Kicked at the St. Patrick's Day Parade and Lived to Tell About It David Kruidenier The Protestant 'Pat Finucane' Father Sean Mc Manus, President, Irish National Caucus Green Party Declines White House Invitation Green Party Press Release Assembly Needs an Opposition David Adams Belfast Hot Air Anthony McIntyre Citizen Tom Dr John Coulter A History of Nationalism in Ireland Liam O Ruairc Review of Challenging the New Orientalism Muhammad Idrees Ahmad Two Sides of a Coin Dr John Coulter The CLM Anthony McIntyre Sinn Fein Batmen Brian Mór Launch of SaorEire.com Colm Mistéil Reject the 'New' RUC Republican Socialist Youth Movement 32 County Sovereignty Movement: Water Charges Are Illegal Kevin Murphy The National Irish Freedom Committee on Gerry McGeough National Irish Freedom Committee NIFC Free Form Video Discusses Elections, Abstentionism Saerbhreathach Mac Toirdealbhaigh America's 'Global War On Terrorism' M. Shahid Alam Iñaki de Juana Chaos Anthony McIntyre • 14 March 2007 • Legal Aid Wrangle Continues Michael McKevitt Justice Campaign Statements on the Arrest of Gerry McGeough Various Campaign for Noel Maguire TJ O Conchúir Paisleyites & Peelers Anthony McIntyre Equating Spectacle at Stormont with United Irishmen is Perverse Tommy Gorman Seacht mbuicéad caca go dtite ar a gcinn Michael Gillespie Nothing But the Truth John Kennedy Snapshot, 1993: Voters' Rights, MI5 Wrongs Fionnbarra Ó Dochartaigh Broad Church for Unionism Dr John Coulter The Man Without the Mask Anthony McIntyre The New Boyne Harriers Brian Mór UUP Possibilities Dr John Coulter Blinkered Vision Anthony McIntyre Damned by Debt Relief Pauline Hadaway

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