Thunder before the Storm in Belfast: Save Moore Street - Buy a raffle ticket for an original 1914 Mauser rifle
As we mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday I remember when native Americans joined us to forge solidarity links and travelled to Derry to participate in the Bloody Sunday events of 1985. Thunder before the Storm in Belfast The drum beat and the chant echoed across the emptiness of Milltown Cemetery. Despite our heavy coats the January cold leeched through to the bone. Margaret and Alfie Doherty, the parents of hunger striker Kieran Doherty; Jim Daly, whose wife Miriam – a member of the National Smash H-Block Armagh Committee - was assassinated by the UDA in 1981; and myself, Alex Maskey and others were at the Belfast Republican plot. So was Maura, sister of H Block hunger striker Joe McDonnell. It was 1985 and we were accompanying a delegation of Native American Indians from the American Indian Movement (AIM). They were in Ireland to ‘see the situation – political and cultural …’ The delegation laid a wreath at the graves of our Patriot Dead and chanted the national anthem of