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Ireland is Part of Shameful War Coalition
by Eoin Dubsky
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The Anglo-American attack of Iraq continues to be supported
by Ireland, where US military flights overfly and refuel at
Shannon Airport. A government motion was passed in Dail
Eireann (parliament) end of March to continue Ireland's
participation in the aggression, even if we don't call it
that. Not a single politician from the Fianna
Fail/Progressive Democrats government coalition (of the
willing?) had the moral courage to vote against. Their
shameful motion can be found here - http://www.gov.ie/debates-03/20Mar/Sect1.htm#3
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PROTESTS AND RESISTANCE CONTINUE:
There have been too many demonstrations and protests to
count. Top Oil, who do the refueling at Shannon Airport
have been targeted, as have government ministers and houses
of power. Indymedia Ireland have tried to link to a lot of
these in the center of their homepage - with photos,
reports, audio and video - http://www.indymedia.ie/
There is a daily vigil at 4 pm outside the GPO on O'Connell
Street in Dublin, organized by Damien Moran of the Catholic
Worker 5 who disarmed a US Navy aircraft last month at
Shannon Airport. Karen Fallon is the last one from that
ploughshares action still in prison.
Write to:
Karen Fallon
c/o Limerick Prison
Mulgrave Street
Limerick
Ireland
Look out for: The millionaire builder Mick Wallace, who
during the second Nice referendum and US attack of
Afghanistan erected a sign saying "No to War! No to Nice!
No to American Terrorism!", has put a new sign in the same
city centre location today saying "WE HAVE BLOOD OF IRAQI
CHILDREN ON OUR HANDS". There's a photo of it on my
homepage - http://slack.redbrick.dcu.ie/
BEARING WITNESS AT SHANNON:
Your presence at Shannon Airport is needed NOW as much as
ever before! The level of police intimidation though in
Shannon has risen dramatically since the invasion of Iraq
began. Activists living locally are constantly harassed, as
are people who visit them or know them, and now even their
landlord. We've exposed another one of Ireland's dirty
little secrets I guess so - as my friend Tim Hourigan puts
it - the Guardians of the Order (not the Law, the
Pecking Order) are out in full force to scare away the
trouble makers.
Read Tim's report - http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=38549
COURT ACTIONS CONTINUE:
Ed Horgan, a former Army Commandant, is racing through the
High Court with a case to stop US military overflights and
refueling in Ireland immediately because of the Iraq
invasion. They've set next Thursday (April 3rd) already for
his hearing. It would be great if you could make it to the
Four Courts in Dublin that morning at 11 am to lend your
support. Ed's email address is Edward.Horgan@ul.ie or you
could send him a text message of support even to
+353862380911.
My case (about Afghanistan, not Iraq) is still carrying on,
and we will hopefully have a hearing shortly too now that
we have got copies of all the orders made to allow the
military flights through Ireland, and I've made another
affidavit.
The Catholic Workers will have their case heard at the
Circuit Court level, where you can get a jury trial. For
updates see - http://www.geocities.com/pwdyson/pitstop.html
Some people who were arrested at Shannon Airport on
demonstrations were on trial yesterday and have received
Judge Mangan's all-time favourite sentence... banned from
Co. Clare for two years. See - http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=38707
- – Eoin Dubsky
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