SHANNON HELP URGENTLY NEEDED

national | miscellaneous | news report

Monday September 23, 2002 11:24

by Tim Hourigan - Green Party, Gluaiseacht, L4C, RefuellingPeace

tim_hourigan at hotmail dot com

Pictures, volunteers to help monitor illegal flights.

Eoin Dubsky has started legal proceedings against the government over the illegal and immoral use of Shannon airport by the US military. The next hearing will be in the High Court in Dublin on Oct 28th. To help make Eoin's case as strong as possible, we need as much evidence as we can get between now and then.

I've already got some good photos of illegal aircraft using the airport. But the State will try to argue that there is no war, and that we are not assisting it.

What we need is the following.

1) as much video and photographic evidence of military use of the airport (US AIR FORCE, MARINES, US NAVY -World Airways, ATA, North American, and a few other suspects) this can be added to my stuff. Send copies if you can, if you send an original then clearly mark it, and put return name and address so it can be returned to you.

2) URGENTLY Needed. Volunteers to help monitor the airport for the next few weeks. You don't have to stay there the whole time. You won't be risking arrest. If you can come out for a few hours on even one day it would be helpful. I intend to set up a rota of people (including myself) who can between us keep a constant 24-hour watch on Shannon, and keep detailed logs on everything flying in and out of the airport.

The idea will be to stay on public property and in a peaceful, legal manner bear witness to what's going on at Shannon.
the more detailed the logs are, the better the evidence will be in court.

PLEASE spread the word, and please make an effort to help if you can.

e-mail me for further details.