Updates on march to Shannon, Friday 25th June 2004
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anti-war / imperialism |
news report 
Friday June 25, 2004 21:20
by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group - Indymedia Ireland
The protest march against the visit of George W. Bush began shortly before 6.30pm. Everyone was reported to be in high spirits. At 7.20 the march arrived near the Lidl supermarket. At 8.10 the front of the march was about three hundred metres walk from the airport. 8.30pm The march was stopped about 200 metres from Shannon Airport by the Gardai at about 8.15pm. There are estimated to be between eight and nine hundred protestors facing a solid wall of Gardai. The protest passed off peacefully, as expected
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According to the corporate media news lines 10,000+ people have gathered for the Stop Bush protest in Dublin. More are joining the march all the time.
RTE are reporting 500 people at the AWI protest in Shannon.
No news of the other demos.
Sky news say only 2000 in Dublin. Stop inflating the figures and telling lies you are doing yourselves no favours
Iraqi civilian dead - 400
US Service deaths - 2
UK service deaths - 2
Italian service deaths - 1
Spanish service deaths - 1
Western Workers beheaded - 0
Western Workers kidnapped - 20
Western Workers dissappeared - 5
Western Workers deaths - 20
Iraqi administration top personel assasinated - 4
Cost of war to US Economy - 1,000,000,000$
Cost of war to EU economy- 1,000,000,000$
number of considered insignificant prisoners in Camp x - 50
number of significant prisoners extradited at considerable pressure from Camp X to other allied countries - 10
number of terrorist incidents attributed to fundementalist terrorism before Bush - 10
number of terrorist incidents attributed to
fundementalist terrorism since Bush - 400
number of terrorist incidents attributed to fundementalist terrorism which have killed more than 100 people since bush- 2
Number of US service men or commanders in chief funerals to which President Bush has gone -0.0001%
Budget Defecit of the USA
1,000,000,000,000,000$
Now I'm telling lies.
All those figures are ridiculously low.
Who's going to correct me?
Don't mind Sky News. RTE have said that there were 10,000 on the Dublin protest. That is a good figure for a Friday evening.
I missed what they said about the numbers at Shannon.
There were protests in other cities and towns but I have not heard the details.
nice evening was a quite a large number at it
rbb said 20,000 nes said 3,000 so somewhere in the middle of that about it was a big crowd stretched a long way through town, boy did they have a good sound sytem this time you could here rbb's voice booming around the city....
meanwhile i had me walkman on to heaer what was happening in shannon im sure it was more fun there....
havn't seen this elsewhere on the wire but saw bit of video of that blonde one who always on the bike having being arrested in shannon terminal "with a knife" probably functional penknife....
Very lively and good humoured. Did a count on the way to the airport, just over 1,100 on demo. Cops were quoting 750 to journalists on the scene.Between 200 and 300 people from Shannon participate, many young people and many people bringing their children. Many more Shannon people came out along the route to offer support. This was despite widespread rumours around Shannon today that there was going to be trouble at the demo. Cops seemed really embarrassed by the over the top security measures.
Thanks for keeping up the heat on Bush. Denying him photo ops from countries that are close allies makes him look bad. Best of luck demilitarising your airport too.
Matt
Los Angeles
And loads of locals! Brilliant support from the local people. Brilliant.
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