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Thursday January 01 1970

Wed 11am Vigil at Spire, Against U.S. Warship Visit to Dublin

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Tuesday May 18, 2004 12:51

by Pit Stop Ploughshares & Dublin Catholic Worker

dublincatholicworker at yahoo dot co dot uk

087 918 4552

DU Firing USS La Salle Involved in Both Wars Against Iraq Comes to Dublin

A vigil against Wednesday's visit of the U.S. warship USS La Salle to Dublin - will be held at the Spire Wed 11am - 1pm.

Pit Stop ploughshares & Dublin Catholic Worker will host the vigil. Hope you can make it. Contact us for more info on 0879184552.

The Irish sea and Dublin's shores will be
greeted by a very significant piece of the US Navy's arsenal this Wednesday, May 19th.

The links below will give you more info. on the background and military
engagements (albeit from the US Navy's perspective) of the Sixth Fleet and
the USS La Salle more specifically. In July 1972, USS LA SALLE replaced USS
VALCOUR in Kuwait and began Maritime Interception Operations in support of
United Nations sanctions against Iraq. During a ceremony to mark the
relieving of it's wartime Captain Haley and the commisioning of the
flagship's new Captain, the guest speaker Rear Adm. Stanley Bozin,
Commander, Fleet Air Mediterranean, "praised Haley's leadership of the La
Salle crew during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. USS La
Salle was the operating platform for Sixth Fleet, and its embarked staff and
crew had a role in coordinating air strikes from ships in the
Mediterranean".

The C-40A plane we disabled at Shannon was known to have been destined to
land at Sigonella US Naval Airbase in Sicily, Italy, which provides critical
logistical support for the Sixth Fleet. The Sixth Fleet has explicitly
hailed it's role in Operation Enduring 'Torture' in Iraq.

*Due to work commitments Pit Stop ploughshares & Dublin Catholic Worker will hold a vigil for peace and against this warship visit at The Spire from 11am- 1 pm, Wednesday May 19th.

**The IAWM will be holding a protest at 6 pm Wednesday on the East Link Bridge (see below or check their website for more info).

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/6th%20Fleet

http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/dstorm/ds1.htm

SCROLL DOWN TO THE SECOND ARTICLE
http://www.nsa.naples.navy.mil/panorama/Archive/30JanStories.htm

**The Irish Anti-War Movement will be holding a protest on the East Link Bridge at 6pm

Emergency Protest East Link Bridge on Wednesday 19th May at 6pm

The Irish Anti-War Movement condemns the arrival of the USS La Salle,
from the US Sixth Fleet into Irish waters. The ship is stationed in
Alexandria Basin on a supposedly "goodwill visit" and claims that its
area of responsibility includes the North Atlantic.

The IAWM further notes that the missile system on the USS La Salle is
capable
of firing 3,000 uranium bullets per minute. Depleted uranium weaponry
has brought an increase in cancer rates in both Iraq and the Balkans.

info@irishantiwar.org

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Comments (7 of 7)

Relevant link on Depleted Uranium Shells and Their Effects

by Ciaron - Dublin Catholic Worker & Pitstop Ploughshares

Tue May 18, 2004 13:08

http://www.ericblumrich.com/pl_lo.html

Radiation in Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs

by Terry

Tue May 18, 2004 16:12

The situation with Depleted Uranium is really bad. When each shell or bullet is fired, it explodes and the Uranium turns into a fine dust. There are literally trillions of dust particles from each round and each dust particle contains tens of trillions of radiactive U-238 atoms.

Because the dust is so small, the emitted radiation can easily travel out of the dust and so the radiation release from the same mass of Uranium in dust form is much much higher by orders of magnitude.

If the uranium was just stored as a single block, much of the radiation would be absorbed by the same block.

In this report below the author reports that the total radiation as a result of the 4 million pounds of uranium is a quarter of a million times higher than that released from the Nagasaki bomb which only used about 14 to 16 pounds.

Radiation in Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar04/Nichols0327.htm
Also available at: http://www.rense.com/general50/radi.htm

any thoughts on peacekeeping

by pc

Tue May 18, 2004 16:22

it was noted in the cloumn inch of teh newspaper i read about this that this ship was last in action off liberia... im not sure if was doing official un peacekeeping stuff or not but this issue of peacekeeping is a hard one to crack i did a bit of reading re libera a while back i can see how the US was interfering etc but its hard to convince the sceptics... and ok this a us ship but criticise teh irish peacekeepers or the ide aof peacekeeping and general and god help ya

Catholic Worker Organisation

by John

Tue May 18, 2004 19:20

Could someone explain what the Catholic Worker organisation is? What sort of combination is that? Why are they introducing sectarianism into it? Is there a Church of Ireland Worker organisation as well? Or a Presbyterian Worker, or a Baptist Worker, or a Methodist Worker organisation? And what sort of society does an organisation with the name Catholic Worker want? Is it a society such as Cuba, but with contraception banned? Or a society such as North Korea, but with a few paedophile priests thrown in? Or a society such as Ireland circa 1950, but minus the prosperity of that period. Most people on this site are content to try and promote one clapped-out ideology, socialism, but you want to promote two, socialism and pre-Vatican II catholicism. I think you'll find good old Protestant Capitalism gives much better results.

try google

by fuinseog

Tue May 18, 2004 20:22

John, if you want information just look on google. Spare us the offensive nonsense.

or you could use the googlewatch proxy

by googlewatch

Tue May 18, 2004 20:27

http://www.google-watch.org/cgi-bin/proxy.htm

which isn't quite as evil as google.com

Report from The Spire Vigil

by Ciaron I Could be wrong? - Dublin Catholic Worker & Pitstop Ploughshares

Wed May 19, 2004 16:42

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=65105&condense_comments=false#comment75546