Vol.61/No.22           June 2, 1997 
 
 
200 Commemorate Irish Hunger Strike  
On May 4 some 200 activists for the unification of northern Ireland rallied and held a commemoration in Hartford, Connecticut for Irish freedom fighter Bobby Sands and nine others who participated in a 1981 hunger strike for political prisoner status. The inmates were ten of many thousands of Irish republican fighters who were railroaded through British kangaroo courts, sent to British prisons, and tortured for their belief in the fight for a united Ireland. Sands' sister, Marcella (above), who spoke at the event, said, "If they can't destroy the desire, they can't destroy the struggle."  
 
 
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