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New Year's Eve Picket on Dept. of Foreign Affairs

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Sunday December 29, 2002 15:20author by MO'B - IAWMauthor email mob1975 at hotmail dot com

IAWM won't let this government off the hook

To mark the end of Ireland's tenure on the UN security council the Irish Anti War Movement will picket the Dept. of Foreign Affairs, St. Stephen's Green on Tuesday 31 December at 1pm.

The picket will serve as a reminder of the craven role played by the Irish establishment in kowtowing to the drive towards war in Iraq by the Bush administration.
However the end of Ireland's tenure on the security council does not mean an end to its responsability in this matter. The availability of Shannon Airport landing and refuelling facilities for US warplanes and the likely public support by this government for the war in Iraq will be met by ceaseless and growing opposition by the Irish Public. Come to the lunchtime picket and bring your friends and workmates!

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Petty Bourgeois Rubbish!!
author by W. Rorkpublication date Mon Dec 30, 2002 15:09author address author phone


So what if the Irish capitalist establishment had a seat on the UN security council! They are capitalists, the UN is a capitalist institution. Stop sowing illusions in these institutions and build a workers movement that can stop this war.

No war but the Class War!!

Good luck!
author by Eoin Dubsky - Refueling Peacepublication date Mon Dec 30, 2002 18:24author address author phone

Well done for organizing this demo. I hope it goes well!

Journalist Robert Fisk's article "How The League Of Nations Ended Up As Debris" (http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=2427), and lawyer Karen Kenny's paper "Ireland, the Security Council and Afghanistan: Promoting or undermining the international rule of law?" (http://www.ihrt.org/docs/Afghanistan%20.doc) remind us how scandalous Ireland's "see no evil..." policy on the Security Council was.

I attended part of a recent anti-war demo (when it got to the US Embassy in Dublin) and couldn't help but feel frustrated by the experience. The weather was crap and it was the end of a long march for lots of people, so perhaps that's why spirits seemed so low. Frankly, it looked more like a recruitment fair than a demo though.

Catholic Worker Ciaron O'Reilly opined at a talk a few days earlier in Liberty Hall that those waging war had upped the ante and it was time surely for us to match that at least and *wage peace*. I think that's what Jesus meant when he said he'd come with a sword too, no?

I hope that the demo tomorrow goes well because it is an important point to make. Also though I hope that people take the opportunity to prepare for actions they can do to directly withdraw their consent for the bloody slaughter.

SWP love war: great opportunity to recruit
author by Rosepublication date Wed Jan 01, 2003 00:50author address author phone

was going to go but...
author by lazy leftpublication date Wed Jan 01, 2003 14:56author address author phone

I was intending going to that protest but I just didn't get out of bed in time.

How did it go?

Reply to the infantile antics of 'lazy left'
author by Alert Activistpublication date Wed Jan 01, 2003 16:13author address author phone

The revolution would have happened but I forgot to set my alarm!

You're a disgrace!

That's what it's there for.
author by Pravda - Move to North Koreapublication date Wed Jan 01, 2003 20:58author address author phone

"Frankly, it looked more like a recruitment fair than a demo though."

- That would be the point of the exercise, Eoin. Always has been, always will.

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