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Witnessing for Peace

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Sunday October 24, 2004 21:18

by Anne Goggin

anne at wordwrights dot ie

Castleconnell, Co Limerick

+353 61 377406

Talk and discussion with peace activists

Meeting with speakers who are peace activists - Ed Horgan, Helen Steven and Ellen Moxley. They will speak about why they have taken the route of peace. To be held in Friends Meeting House, Limerick on Saturday 30th October at 7.30pm

Quakers in Limerick invite you to an evening of discussion:

"Witnessing for Peace"

Speakers are peace campaigners:

Ed Horgan
Helen Steven
Ellen Moxley

who will talk about how and why they have taken the path of peace activists.

When: 7.30pm on Saturday 30th October

Venue: Quaker Meeting House, Southville Gardens, Ballincurra*

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Ed Horgan is a former commandant of the Irish army. Since leaving the army he has campaigned actively for peace. He took a High Court action to try to prevent U.S. overflights of Shannon after the Iraq war. Most recently he was arrested when trying to bring a large banner to lay on Bush Island in the Shannon estuary in advance of President Bush?s visit to Ireland.

Helen Steven is a co-founder, with Ellen, of the Scottish Centre for Non-Violence. She has been an active campaigner against the Trident nuclear weapons system and has been prepared to serve prison sentences for non-violent resistance to nuclear weapons. She is due to deliver the Swarthmore lecture at Britain Yearly Meeting next year.

Ellen Moxley also works with the Trident ploughshares campaign and was arrested in 1999 when she broke into a research lab at Faslane nuclear naval base and, with two others, destroyed equipment in the lab. She was acquitted of wrong-doing in a landmark judgement in the Scottish courts, having argued that it was not criminal damage as the UK?s nuclear arsenal is illegal under international law.

Helen and Ellen received the Gandhi International Peace award early this month in recognition of their campaigning against WMDs and the arms industry.
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* The Quaker Meeting House can be accessed via Southville Gardens. Coming from city centre, turn right at the traffic lights after Punches Cross, and continue to bear right. The Meeting House is at the end of this road, directly behind the derelict petrol station that you can see on the main road. For further information contact anne@wordwirghts.ie or on 087-2466812.