Weekend Of Resistance
limerick |
anti-war / imperialism |
news report 
Sunday September 25, 2005 04:18
by Elaine
In Limerick And At Shannon
( Or as close as we could get! )
The weekend of resistance kicked off on Friday night when a public meeting was held in Halla Ide on Thomas st. in Limerick City.
The meeting entitled 'Shannon And The War On Terror: The War Comes Homes' was addressed by Ploughshares defendant and Catholic Worker Ciaron O'Reilly alongside planespotter Tim Hourigan from the Mid-West Alliance Against Military Aggression.
The next day, Saturday 24th, there was a demonstration against the Government's policies and against Garda and Irish army complicity in the US military use of Shannon airport.
Organised jointly by the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA), IAWM and NGO Peace Alliance.
Perhaps someone will post more about the numbers involved, but to me it seemed that there were a couple of hundred people gathered in the Lidl carpark ready to march towards Shannon.
