Solidarity Vigils During Bush Visit at Irish Embassies & Consuls Growing!

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Monday June 21, 2004 15:54

by Ciaron - Pitstop Ploughshares

83 Corrib Rd. Dublin 6W IRELAND

+353 1 492 6100

Vancouver, Timor Leste, London, Chicago & Menwith Confirmed!

Solidarity Vigils at Irish Embassies, Consulates and sites of significance, while Bush lands at Shannon on Friday or dwells at Dromoland Castle on Saturday, are growing! Vigils have been confimed thus far in Vancouver, Chicago, London, Menwith & Timor Leste (East Timor) have been confirmed. I'm still waiting to hear from anti-war friends in Sydney, Melbourne, Ghotenburg & Derry.

If you have any anti-war friends you think are worth approaching (even for a solo vigil) cut and paste the invitation below and whack it off to them. If they can confrim to pitstopploughshares@hotmail.com
we can confirm and collect the most accuaret list!

List of Irish Consuls at Embassies on
http://foreignaffairs.gov.ie/embassies/display.asp

Call for International "Demiliatrise Shannon Airport" Vigils at Irish Embassies - June 25th./26th.
by Ciaron - Pitstop ploughshares
pitstoploughshares@hotmail.com address: 83 Corrib Rd. Kimmage Dublin, Ireland D6

phone: + 353 1 492 6100

Cut, Paste & Send to Your Friends Internationally!

REQUEST -
We are asking you to hold a peace vigil at the Irish Embassy, Consulate or a site of significance in your town or city on June 25th. or 26th.

VIGIL DEMAND

The international vigils will be demanding the Irish Government withdraw Shannon Airport's provision of facilities to the U.S. military. The Irish government has transformed the civilian airport into the major pit stop for the U.S. war machine's invasion, occupation and plunder of Iraq. According to official figures, 125,855 U.S. troops have travelled via Shannn to the Middle East last year. For the last 18 months, an average of 10,000 U.S. troops have used Shannon as a transit centre to the Middle East.

WHY JUNE 25TH. OR 26TH.

On the evening of June 25th. George W Bush will be landing at Shannon Airport, County Clare. He is in Ireland for the latest EU (European Union) - U.S. summit to be held at Dromoland Castle on June 26th. Also present at Dromoland Castle will be the representatives of EU states involved in the war - Italy, the UK and Poland. On June 26th. Bush will leave through Shannon to fly to Turkey for a NATO summit.

NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE TO IRELAND'S ROLE IN THE U.S/U.K. WAR ON IRAQ

Also at Shannon on June 25th. & at the Dromoland Castle on the 26th. will be the activist Irish peace movement (www.antiwarireland.org www.ambush2004.org). In a recent public opinion poll, 67% of Irish people oppose Bush's visit to Ireland. Shannon Airport has been the site of effective nonviolent resistance to the U.S./U.K war on Iraq.

Two nonviolent disarmament actions by Mary Kelly (www.freewebs.com/mary_kelly/) and the Catholic Worker Pit Stop ploughshares (www.ploughsharesireland.org) in Jan/Feb 2003 led to 3 private U.S. companies transporting U.S. troops to vacate Ireland during the lead up to U.S. invasion of Iraq. The U.S. Navy war plane en route to the war had to turn around and head back to Ft. Worth, Texas.

Other Irish peace activists arrested during nonviolent blockade and trespass actions at Shannn Airport have also been barred from Coutny Clare. Meanwhile, Donal Rumsfield has lead pro-war rallies of U.S troops within the confines of the airport. The trial of Mary Kelly begins on June 15th in Kilrush, County Clare. The Pit Stop ploughshares await trial in Dublin, they all face a maximum of ten years imprisonment if convicted.

VIGILS AT IRISH EMBASSIES/ June 2003

Last June their were solidarity peace vigils at Irish Embassies/ Consulates & sites of significance in Houston, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Vancouver, Bishop Romero's tomb/El salvador, Dili/East Timor, Sydney, Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland, Berlin, France, Amsterdam, Bulgaria, Brussels, Ghotenburg, London, Glasgow, rural Wales, Belfast, Dublin as the Pit Stop ploughshares face court in County Clare.

Check the following link for reports and photos of those vigils
http://www.geocities.com/pwdyson/july24/index.html

FEEDBACK

If you are going to do a vigil
-Email pitstopploughshares@hotmail.com asap - we will link you up with others from your town who are considering a vigil on June 25th/26th.

-Send a postal address asap and we will send you a Demilitarise Shannon poster that can be held at embassies etc. around the world.

-Be sure to take a photo of the vigil and write a report which we can share with the peace movement here in Ireland.

-Consider writing a letter of protest to hand in at your Irish Embassy or Consulate. International pressure will do the world of good for the Irish government.

http://www.geocities.com/pwdyson/july24/index.html

Ciaron O'Reilly

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good work ciaron

by peace

Mon Jun 21, 2004 17:35

and plowsharers

11.30am Friday-Vigil at Irish Embassy in London 17 Grosvenor Place London

by London Catholic Worker & Joe Womble - ("We are the World!")

Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:56

Irish Embassy 17 Grosvenor Place London 7HR

0795 119 3752 (London mobile)

hey ciaron, yeh we're going to the irish embassy at 11.30 am and then to the Ireland House where Irish buisness is done

Demilitarise Shannon/ Resist Bush
Anti-War & Solidarity Vigil
Friday June 25 th11.30am
Irish Embassy
17 Grosvenor Place
London 7HR
More info Ph./text Chris in London
0795 119 3752

VANCOUVER Friday J25 Vigil at Irish Consulate 1385 W.8th. Ave

by Charles Boylan - Radio Journo with "Wake Up with Co-op Radio"

Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:50

Vancouver, Canada

ANTI-WAR SOLIDARITY
VIGIL 12 NOON FRI J25
Demilitarise Ireland's Shannon Airport
Irish Consulate 1385 W.8th. Ave
More info Charles charles_boylan@telus.net

Anti war & SolidarityShannon was/is a big US air leap off point to Iraq just as Gander Airport in Newfoundland a fact not well known in the Canadian Peace Movement.
I have told Ciaron as part of the Irish Diaspora I would be there at the Irish Consulate on Friday June 25th at 12 noon at 1385 West 8th Avenue (if they've moved I'll find out and let you know asap).
This is a good opportunity for Canadian peace activists, anti-imperialists etc. to show concrete support for our brothers and sisters in Ireland who have undertaken an audacious, courageous and powerfully symbolic action to arouse the conscience of the Irish and world's peoples about the unacceptability of US imperialists using one's country as a staging base to launch brutal wars of aggression.
Please join me in a Vigil to Support the Irish Ploughshares activists as they battle in the Irish Courts to defend their right to sabotage US warplanes violating the Irish Constitution, world peace, Iraqi sovereignty and Irish dignity!

When: Friday, June 25, 2004 12:00 noon
Where: Irish Consulate, 1385 W. 8th Avenue

Bring your own hand made signs! Let me know by return e-mail if you think you can join with me!
Best wishes,
Charles Boylan

p.s. if organizations like Stopwar.ca, MAWO, Filipino Youth, any activist organization wants to join in or endorse the more the better!!
I'm specifically asking the Stopwar.ca steering committee to assist in this by endorsing a picket at the Consulate as Ciaron has requested, and forwarding the appeal to its membership list.

pps. For those in Ottawa and Toronto and Montreal who receive this notice perhaps something can be organized or is being organized at the Irish Embassy or Consulates in your area.

CHICAGO VIGIL-5pm J25 Irish Consulate 400 N.Michigan Ave.

by Mike Schorsch - (ex- Dublin Catholic Worker)

Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:19

schorscm at carleton dot edu

Chicago, USA

773 784 8065 (danny at voice in the wilderness office)

ANTI-WAR/RESIST BUSH VIGIL
Peace & Solidarity
Demiliatarise Shannon
Friday June 25th. 5 pm
Irish Consulate
400 N.Michigan Ave.
Chicago

More info Mike schorscm@carleton.edu
Danny (Voices in the Wilderness office 773 784 8065)

I just got in tonight and will try getting ahold of
Danny. One of my brothers may be up for it if no one else can make it.

I say 5 pm for the time. The Irish consulate is located at 400 N Michigan Ave.

If I don't get your poster in time, any suggestions for what you'd like my sign
to say?
Peace,
Mike

DILI (east timor/) SOLIDARITY VIGIL J25 5pm at Office of Irish Govt. 12 Rua Duarte Ar biro, Farol,

by Br. Bill Tynan (taught Ciaron at high school!) - Bill lives & works in East Timor.Bill joined the sit-in at Irish Aviation Building Dublin, 4/11/03

Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:55

Dili. Timor Leste (East)

(see photo onour webste 4/11/03..big bloke with beard & cap)

ANTI-WAR/RESIST BUSH VIGIL
Peace & Solidarity
Demiliatarise Shannon
Friday June 25th. 5 pm
Representative Office of Irish Govt.
12 Rua Durate ar biro
Farol
Dili

More info.
Br. Bill Tynan
cerice@mail.timortelecom.tp

HOUSTON Solidarity Vigil J25, Irish Consul 2711 Weslayan

by Ken

Tue Jun 22, 2004 13:12

Houston, Texas

ANTI-WAR/RESIST BUSH
PEACE & SOLIDARITY VIGIL
in W's Home State!
Irish Consulate
2711 Weslayan
Houston
Texas
Friday June 25th.

More info. Ken
KCrow99387@aol.com

*Ken met Ciaron in the visiting room of Pecos County Jail, Texas following the first Gulf War.

Ken (60) recently completed a 6 month sentence for a trespass action at School of the Americas (www.soaw.org) Ft. Benning, Georgia. Ft. Benning is where many of the troops transiting though Shannon have their final combat training before departing the U.S.

Training at Ft. Benning includes prisoner treatment and interrogation techniques. The sniper who killed Bishop Romero of El salvador and the soldiers who killed the 6 Jesuits and 2 Salvadoran women 16/11/89 were trained at Ft. Benning.

Lt. Calley who was court martialled (serving 6 months in the brig) for putting 500 Vietnames in a ditch at My Lai and machine guning them has a jewellry store in the nearby town of Columbus. GA.

from ken...

ciaron,

thanks for the goose...i'll be at the at the office of the honorary consul (john b. kane) on friday, june 25...hope to have others and will try to present a demand letter to consul. i have posters...no need to send any.

Important Sites for Initiating Vigils

by Ciaron - Dublin Catholic Worker & Pitstop Ploughshares

Tue Jun 22, 2004 13:17

087 918 4552 or 01- 492 6100

LIST OF IRISH EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES
http://foreignaffairs.gov.ie/embassies/display.asp

PHOTOS & REPORTS OF SOLIDARITY VIGILS FROM LAST JUNE
http://www.geocities.com/pwdyson/july24/index.html

NEW YORK CITY- Solidarity Vigil J2512 noon-2pm Irish Consul, Ireland House, 345 Park Ave

by Carmen & NYCW Crew - New York Catholic Worker

Tue Jun 22, 2004 16:55

NYC, USA

212 254 1640

ANTI-WAR/RESIST BUSH
PEACE & SOLIDARITY VIGIL
Demilitarise Shannon Airport
Friday June 25th. 12 noon - 2pm
Irish Consul
Ireland House
345 Park Ave
New York City

More info Ph. Carmen
at New York Catholic Worker Soup Kitchen Ph. 212 254 1640

*Just spoke to Carmen he reports that
Fr. Dan Berrigan SJ (of the 1968 Catonsville Draft Board raids & the initial Plowshares 8 action at GE) was rushed to hospital very ill.

Dan is 83. He and brother Phil spent many years in jail for nonviolently resisting the U.S. war machine. Booby Sands requested they visit as he was dying. They came but the military would not let them in.

Over 1000 people turned up to hear Dan speak in Dublin in July 2002, where he called for the demilitarisation of the Shannon airport.

Dan was at last year's vigil and when the consul staff realised who they had shut out on the street, they invited him up. He gave them a Jesuitical berating about the obligations of being Irish and human when the demons of war have been let loose.

If you would like to send a card to Dan
Dan Berrigan
220 W. 98th. St.
#11L
New York City
NY 10025
USA

Photos of Dan, Carmen & Crew outside Irish Consul last year on the link below.

MENWITH HILL U.S SPY BASE- Solidarity Vigil J25

by Helen - Menwith Hill Women's Peace Campaign

Wed Jun 23, 2004 16:02

Yorkshire, England

ANTI-WAR/RESIST BUSH
PEACE & SOLIDARITY VIGIL
Demilitarise Shannon Airport
Friday June 25th.
U.S. Spy Base
Menwith Hill
Yorkshire
England

Contact Helen helenmenwith@yahoo.co.uk

Solidarity from Canadian Candidates

by Charles Boylan

Fri Jun 25, 2004 02:46

PRESS RELEASE JUNE 24, 2004

Vancouver South Candidates Call Vigil Against George Bush At Irish Consulate

TIME: 12 NOON FRIDAY JUNE 25TH

PLACE: IRISH CONSULATE, 1385 WEST 8TH AVENUE, VANCOUVER

PARTICIPANTS: Vancouver South Candidates Charles Boylan (ML), Joe Six Pack Horrocks (CAP), Doug Perry (GP) and Stephen Von Sychowski (CP), other candidates, and peace activists. All media and public invited to attend.

REASON: TO CONDEMN GEORGE BUSH’S OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AND CANADA’S PARTICIPATION IN THE MISSILE DEFENCE TREATY! On Friday, June 25th, George Bush lands at Shannon Airport, Ireland for talks with NATO and the EU. Vigils have been called around the world at Irish Consulates and Embassies. The international vigils will be demanding the Irish Government withdraw Shannon Airport's provision of facilities to the U.S. military. The Irish government has transformed the civilian airport into the major pit stop for the U.S. war machine's invasion, occupation and plunder of Iraq. According to official figures, 125,855 U.S. troops have travelled via Shannn to the Middle East last year. For the last 18 months, an average of 10,000 U.S. troops have used Shannon as a transit centre to the Middle East. WHY JUNE 25TH. On the evening of June 25th. George W Bush will be landing at Shannon Airport, County Clare. He is in Ireland for the latest EU (European Union) - U.S. summit to be held at Dromoland Castle on June 26th. Also present at Dromoland Castle will be the representatives of EU states involved in the war - Italy, the UK and Poland. On June 26th. Bush will leave through Shannon to fly to Turkey for a NATO summit. NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE TO IRELAND'S ROLE IN THE WAR ON IRAQ Also at Shannon on June 25th. & at the Dromoland Castle on the 26th. will be the activist Irish peace movement (www.antiwarireland.org www.ambush2004.org). In a recent public opinion poll, 67% of Irish people oppose Bush's visit to Ireland. Shannon Airport has been the site of effective nonviolent resistance to the U.S./U.K war on Iraq. CANADIAN PEACE ACTIVISTS UNITED WITH IRISH PEACE ACTIVISTS

George Bush represents a dangerous policy of unilateral illegal invasions of sovereign states. Canadians must NOT sign the "Missile Defence Treaty", in reality a green light for US militarizing space.

END OCCUPATION OF IRAQ, HAITI AND AFGHANISTAN!

NO TO THE MISSILE DEFENSE TREATY!

Further Information: Charles Boylan, 778-772-8550; Joe Horrocks, 604-767-7178; Doug Perry 604-733-8699; Stephen Von Sychowski 604-254-9836

CARDIFF- Vigil in solidarity with those Resisting the Bush Visit to Ireland

by Jill

Fri Jun 25, 2004 13:33

Cardiff, Wales

Welsh vigil in solidarity with irish resistance to the the Bush visit & for the Demilitarisation of Shannon Airport is being held at the Irish

Consulate,Bush House, Fitzalan Road, Cardiff tomorrow (saturday) at 2.15pm.
A letter is being handed in to the Consulate at the same time.
More details about the event/copies of the letter: Ray Davies +44(0)2920 889
514 or jill stallard +44(0)1550 750 260
jill@cndcymru.org

love to you all

jill

Last second Chicago update

by Mike Schorsch - ex-Dublin Catholic Worker

Sat Jun 26, 2004 17:15

For those who may be reading in Chicago--

The vigil was moved at the last second to noon TODAY, Saturday (that's in two hours Chicago time). Same bat location, same bat channel.

Sorry for the late, late notice on this site. I didn't think to post here until just now.

Peace,

Mike

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