Rally against Patten
A unionist rally in opposition to the Patten report on policing has been organised for Saturday, 18 September. The demonstration, which will take place at Belfast's City Hall, has been organised by the Unionist Information Service and the Friends of the Union.
Former members of the RUC have been invited to address the rally in order to voice their opposition to the as yet unpublished Patten Report. As yet, no party leaders have been invited to speak.
David Burnside, a spokesperson for Friends of the Union who will chair the rally, has said that there is considerable unionist opposition to Patten. He said: ``If the price of this process is the destruction of the RUC, then that is intolerable.''
![[An Phoblacht]](http://republican-news.org/graphics/title_gifs/aprn.gif)