Hectic anti-war schedule in Galway

galway | anti-war / imperialism | news report Thursday June 17, 2004 15:40 by John Cunningham - Galway Alliance Against War johnliamsheain at eircom dot net

Several events planned for build-up to Bush protests

A highlight on Saturday evening at 6.30 in the Roisin Dubh in Dominick-street will be the Galway Alliance Against War’s (GAAW) public meeting with Ramsey Clark, ex-US Attorney General, who is in Ireland for the Mary Kelly re-trial. The meeting will also provide an opportunity to catch up with Mary herself, and with Iraqi exile Nuria Mustafa Dunne.

Earlier on Saturday, a number of newly-elected anti-war city councillors will be helping out on the GAAW stall in Shop-street. The stall will run until 4 pm, which is the starting time at the Spanish Arch for the ‘Anti-war Tour of Galway’, under the auspices of AmBush.

On Tuesday, 22 June, at 8 pm, in the Menlo Park Hotel, another Iraqi exile will address a GAAW public meeting. Haifa Zangana is a London-based novelist and painter, who was imprisoned in Abu Ghraib in the Saddam era (She was also tortured). Joining her on the platform will be Mary van Lieshout, of US Citizens in Ireland Against War.

On Tuesday afternoon, Haifa Zangana will lead a seminar on Iraqi culture in the Women’s Study Centre at NUI Galway.

GAAW is appealing to all anti-warriors in the west to put their shoulders to the wheel for the next week to ensure that the protests in Galway, Shannon, Dromoland (and during the week at Ennis Courthouse) are HUGE.