New-look Poor Farmers auction raised over €31,000
THERE was a different look to the annual Ardara Poor Farmers Auction which took place on Tuesday night.
The event, which is traditionally held in Teague’s Bar, was moved to Brockagh Mart this year with all bids coming in online.
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A total of
€31,220 was raised on the night with all proceeds going to the local Downstrands Counselling Service, the Charlie Bennett Fund and Pieta House. The annual event has raised more than
€378,000 for charity over the past fifteen years.
Daniel Moy and Malachy Daniels were the auctioneers who were charged with selling more than one hundred lots which had been sponsored.
Remembering Comrade Ola Oni (6/6/1933 – 22/12/1999) By Baba Aye
Both SWAFP and the NLP would be smashed by the military juntas (first of General Aguinyi Ironsi s for just 6 months but more so by General Yakubu Gowon s which lasted 9 years), as all partisan formations were repressed. But the tendency they had formed would continue in different forms (as well as SWAFP s till the early 90s) till the early 2000s.
by Baba Aye
Dec 23, 2020
Today makes it twenty-one years since Comrade Ola Oni passed on. He was one of the greatest leaders and teachers on the Nigerian Left, from the 60s till his death. He, along with Eskor Toyo, Baba Omojola and others split from the Socialist Workers and Farmers Party in Augsut 1964 (i.e., a year and four months after SWAFP was formed) to form the Nigeria Labour Party under the leadership of Michael Imoudu (Labour Leader #1).
is this a child soldier? him in particular i wouldn t call him a child soldier. i don t think the kind of radical ideology that isis was trying to inject into this new generation, i don t think it really took with him, he just seemed more traumatized than anything else, but others like him, you know, it s difficult because they are very young, so, you know, you don t want to make assumptions or judge them too harshly, but at the same time, you know, some of them were more open to this kind of ideology than others. who are they? the children? yeah. most of them are just, you know, poor farmers, shepherds, things like that, you know, mostly uneducated, mostly, you know, without a lot of exposure to different kinds of mentalities. and what is this training like, how long is it? got a great first person sense of what is so difficult here. well, as far as i know, they