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Since 1988 comes August West Belfast is transforming itself into a colored mixture of community festival, international culture and music festival with artist from allover the world and political events on conflict resolution in Ireland and elsewhere. West Belfast is the biggest Irish community in Belfast, politically it has a huge Irish-Republican majority with Gerry Adams being elected with almost 70% of the votes.
After the breaktrough in the peace process, the agreement of Sinn Féin and DUP to build a government together from May 8th, 2007 on, the festival will be dominated by this enormeous political progress. We will join the festival with a German delegation from 6.-10. August 2007. We will participate in the festival and organize talks with political parties, activists and community groups.
(from our invitation to participate in our delegation, German language only)

Travel reports and impressions from the West Belfast Festival 2007:

The Anti Racism Cup

The pictures below are from the German participants from the Düsseldorf Celtic Fanclub

Participants in the Anti-Racism-Cup
at the Colin Valley pitch in West Belfast
Award
Bob Doyle hands over the cup to the winning Basque team

4.8.2007: an Anti-Racism World Cup was held in West Belfast today. Teams from Cuba, The Congo, The Basque Country, Palestine, Italy, England, Catalonia, Kurdistan and Germany, as well as local Irish teams from various ethnic and racial backgrounds took part in the tournament. The Anti-Racism World Cup has been running in various European cities for many years. Sixteen teams will play in the tournament to promote inclusion and racial solidarity. Spanish civil war veteran, Bob Doyle was present as an honory guest.

International Solidarity Weekend in Düsseldorf: 11.-12. January 2008

The Celtic fanclub organizes an International Solidarity Weekend in January 2008. The money goes to the 2008 Anti Racism Tournament in Belfast, to may be sponsor the participation of a palestinian team:

Pól Mac Adaim is a great singer from Belfast and the Millerntor Brigade are St. Pauli's very own.

Tickets: 6,- EURO
200 Tickets only!!!

Infos&Tickets: shamrockludi@aol.com
or phone: 02115302041 (ab 18.00)

Samstag 12.01.08: Konzert und Folk’n Rebel Party im AK47
Kiefernstrasse, Düsseldorf Flingern

Freitag 11.01.08: Warm Up im Mc Laughlins Irish Pub (www.mclaughlins.de)
Kurze Strasse, Düsseldorf Altstadt

>>>> Download Flyer as PDF (3,5 MB) <<<<

Next delegation 2008:

Probably: 1. week in August 2008 (will be confirmed in spring 2008)
email to delegation@info-nordirland.de

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