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Downloadable images for posters badges stencils flyers flags etc. Here

This thread is intended for sharing stencilling, badge making, poster making and so on designs and ideas. Those of us who loosely call ourseleves the ‘Black Shamrock Collective’ or Campaign have come up with a few designs, some of which are here. You are free to download, re-hash, cut, paste, print, spray, distort, render and of course re-invent black shamrocks. There is no copyright or trademark*. On the contrary we encourage all to spread the black shamrock.

*We have decided on an ethos abit like the one called Copyleft – where anyone is free to use and pass on use of the symbol for anti-war, collective and not-for-profit use

The Black Shamrock – a poem by Roibeard Mac an Bheatha

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Also available

Black Shamrock: Mission Statement

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Black Shamrock for Martians

The Black Shamrock – the song and video

Derryman Seán Kelly, of the New Zealand based Irish folk band, the Celtic Flyers, has written a song called “the Black Shamrock”. It captures the spirit which inspired the Black Shamrock campaign perfectly, conveying all too well in the lyrics and performance the horror we all feel at the realisation of ireland’s complicity in the madness of these wars. You can judge for yourself by viewing the video and song:

Where they grow the black shamrocks

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Stick a Black Shamrock on yerself…

The Black Shamrock symbolises our mourning for all those who died as a result of Irish collaboration in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, for which the airports at Shannon, Aldergrove and Baldonnel have become pit-stops. It also symbolises our mourning for the loss of Irish Neutrality.

Equally the economies both north and south are daily becoming more integrally linked to the fortunes of the US led ‘military industrial complex’. What price is being paid for ‘peace’ in the north and ‘prosperity’ in the south with the arrival of Raytheon (the world’s largest Missile manufacturer) in Derry, and companies like Timoney, Data Devices Corporation, Zillings and Moog Ltd (all of whom make components for the international arms industry) in the south?

Among other conflicts this collaboration is fuelling, is the one caused by the ongoing Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories.

The Black Shamrock is also, of course, a symbol of resistance. In wearing it, all of those who do declare their opposition to any Irish involvement, be it economic, strategic or logistical, in the unjust and illegal wars.

The Black Shamrock campaign is a grassroots non-party political, non-partisan campaign to highlight the views of the majority of people in Ireland and in the rest of the world; that we want no part in these dirty occupations and instruct our leaders to follow Irish and International law and immediately withdraw support for the occupations. The campaign welcomes the support of members of all political parties and none.

Wear a Black Shamrock! Get your friends to wear Black Shamrocks! Download posters, pictures and graphics here, or make your own Black Shamrocks for display in your window, your car, your workplace, or elsewhere. Get pictures of your Black Shamrocks and upload them here for all to see!