Irish Anti-War Movement Bulletin

national | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis Friday April 16, 2004 11:49 by Colm Stephens - Irish Anti-War Movement info at irishantiwar dot org

16 April 2004

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- : US responds to Iraqi resistance with a massacre of civilians in Fallujah
- : Demonstration at US Embassy
- : Solidarity Protest for those charged with disabling US warplane at Dail Eireann
- : Mayday
- : General Meeting of IAWM
- : Stop Bu$H Campaign
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US responds to Iraqi resistance with a massacre of civilians in Fallujah

The revolt that is now taking place across Iraq among both Sunni and Shia populations is the final proof that the US invasion of Iraq was a colonial war of occupation not a war of “liberation”. The US is now facing defeat at the hands of the Iraqi people and the global anti-war movement. The US military has responded with a massacre of civilians similar to those in countless villages in Vietnam when they were faced with resistance then.
All the lies used by Bush and Blair have now been exposed. No weapons of mass destruction have been found. Terrorist attacks on the west continue and now we are witnessing a mass popular revolt against the US occupying forces by the very Iraqi people the US said they had liberated.
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Demonstration at US Embassy

The IAWM has called a demonstration outside the US Embassy, Ballsbridge, Dublin on Monday, 19 April at 6 pm to protest against the massacre of 600 men, women and children in Fallujah and to show solidarity with the Iraqi people in their struggle for real freedom.

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Solidarity Protest at
Dail Eireann, Kildare Street, Dublin
12 noon - 2 pm

Show your solidarity with those charged with direct action at Shannon (Catholic Worker 5 - 'The Pitstop ploughshares', Mary Kelly and others by demonstrating outside Dail Eireann. The ploughshares will join the protest after their overnight vigil at the Israeli Embassy.

21 April is the day that Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli prisoner of conscience is due to be released. He 'blew the whistle' on the secrets of Israel's nuclear weapons of mass destruction and was criminalised and imprisioned. Similarly, the CW5 - Pitstop ploughshares and Mary Kelly are facing criminalisation and imprisonment - if the Irish Government has its way - for taking non-violent direct action to disable a warplane on its way to Iraq. Meanwhile the real war criminals are using Shannon as a base from which to launch WMDs and terror across the world.

We say: drop the charges against CW5 and Mary Kelly and put the war, GW Bush, Tony Blair and B. Ahern on trial!
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Support the Mayday Carnival and march
against and war, racism and corporate greed

Speakers include Susan George, bands include King Sitiva, Gospel Choirs, African Music, Jinx Lennon, Happy City Samba School, very special Guest

Assemble 12 noon Central Bank, Dublin

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The Steering Committee has decided to hold a general meeting of all members of the IAWM on

Saturday, 08 May 2004
in the Teachers Club
Parnell Square
Dublin 2

The agenda will be as follows

12 noon - 1 pm Opening plenary session: International and domestic political situation
1 pm - 2 pm Lunch break
2 pm - 3 pm Workshops (running in parallel)

1. Occupations (Palestine, Afghanistan, Chechnya
and Iraq)
2. Militarism and the European Union
3. Civil liberties and the right to protest
4. Women in war and in the anti-war movement

3 pm - 4pm Plenary with resolutions, results of workshops and election of new steering committee
4 pm - 5 pm Organisation and a constitution for the IAWM

Please note that all members of the IAWM and one delegate from each of the affiliated organisations may attend and vote.

All resolutions for consideration and all nominations for the election to the new steering committee should be submitted at least two weeks before the date of the meeting (i.e. by 24 April) to the info@irishantiwar.org or to the Secretary, IAWM, PO Box 9260, Dublin 1.
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STOP BU$H CAMPAIGN
The IAWM has joined with the NGO PA, PANA and other organisations and political
parties to mobilise against the Bush visit. The 'Stop Bush' campaign has been
officially launched - see the website http://www.stopbushcampaign.org .

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More upcoming anti-war events

21 April STOP BU$H Campaign Launch, Dublin North City
8 pm, St. Peter's Parish Hall, St Peter's Rd.,
Phibsborough, Dublin 7
Speakers: Tony Gregory TD, Colm Stephens (IAWM)

14-16 May Demonstration and Alternative Environmental Summit
organised by
South East Social Forum

As part of Ireland's EU Presidency, the EU environmental ministers will
be meeting in Martin Cullen's constituency, Waterford on May 15th/16th.
The South East Social Forum is organising a protest and alternative
summit under the title of 'People and Planet Before Profit -
Another Europe is Possible'.

The protest assembles in the Glen, Waterford city centre at 2.45pm on
Saturday 15th May to march to the Waterford Institute of Technology
where the EU summit is happening. For more info see http://irishantiwar.org/calendar/item.tcl?scope=public&calendar_id=734

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