Still On The Loose....
dublin |
anti-war / imperialism |
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Friday October 21, 2005 01:54
by Elaine
But Here Comes The Judge....
As part of the run-up to the ploughshares Trial, on October 24th in Dublin's Four Courts, a vigil has been held every day this week at the GPO.
There was so much interest today that we ran out of leaflets.
Pat Does Double Duty - Banner Holding And Leafletting
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June 'Jazz Hands' Kelly And Pat
Joe Black Drops By, He's The One On The Right
From Left: Damien, Crowd Of People, Colm, Garda And Mike
An Illegal War You Say, I'm Intrigued And Would Like To Subscribe To Your Pamphlet
Martha, Jon (Street Seen), Damien And Little Uisce
dogged our steps today.
Don't Look Now Thomas But I Think You Are Under Surveillance
June Tries Out Her New Ventriloquism Act
Would You Believe It, A TV Crew
Vigil Done And Dusted, And Damien Gets Filmed Putting Away The Banners
People could turn up for a while tomorrow from 4pm to 6pm to show some solidarity at the GPO Dublin for people who are facing jail for opposing the unjust Iraq 'war' (For oil) and the Irish 'Free' states complicity in such...
Maybe we could show some sort of opposition...
Maybe we could revive or remember all that anti-War feeling...
Maybe we could forget all the 'party' political sectarian politics...
Maybe we could support some people who are facing jail for doing the things we all think are right..
Maybe we could be there...
Having spent the past month between Australia and New Zealand, I have come to realise the opinion which many people hold of the Irish. We are not just seen as being great craic and alcos; but we are in fact held in high regard for being a nation of passionate intellectuals.
Over the past month I have been told on many occasions how the Irish are honest, peaceful people who stand up with great passion for what we believe in. What a crock of sh*t! I can only think think that they have commited a bushism and confused us with Iceland.
Countless illusions have been shattered once I have informed them of how we willingly standby and ignore causes such as that of The Pitstop Plowshares,Rossport and The Hill of Tara. Would our ancestors have fought so hard for our country had they known they would be handing it over to the shower of soulless, money grabbing pr*cks we have become. I for one do not think so.
So I thank Deirdre, Nuin, Karen, Damien and Ciaron for putting the conscience back in Irish society, and I can only apologise for not having the courage to stand there beside them. I wish you all the best and may true justice be restored in Ireland so that once again we can be proud to say we are Irish.
Hi Pit Stops,
All the best as you head to trial. A few of us from Ringwood Uniting Church will be at the Office of the Honourary Irish Consul in Melbourne on Monday in support.
Cheers,
Paul
Vigil for the Pit Stop Ploughshares
Monday 24th October 2005, 5pm-6pm
Office of the Honourary Irish Consul
Cnr Queen & Little Lonsdale Sts, Melbourne
On Monday 24th October Ciaron O'Reilly and the rest of the Pit Stop Ploughshares will be going to trial in Dublin.
Show your support by coming along to the vigil.
Bring signs, e.g. "No War", "Stop Australian and Irish Complicity in War", "Justice for Pit Stop Ploughshares" etc
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72526
It may be the Great FireWall of China, but www.peaceontrial.com doesn't seem to be a live address.
On the other hand, a quick look through Google shows up www.warontrial.com which appears to be the correct address.
Arrah lads when ye're painting the banners leave down the spliff for a half-hour and the oul' memory and the message might benefit from it!
The very very best of luck to the Pitstop Ploughshares. I can't agree with the actual action they took, as it endangered their own lives as well as may have broken laws, but believe that their hearts and their courage are most certainly in the right place.
My admiration for their courage and good intentions far exceeds my disapproval of their actions. I really hope these people are vindicated, but fear they may have cut a rod for their own backs.
I sincerely hope that I am wrong. I sincerely hope these courageous, convicted people are not convicted for their courage.
Cindy Sheehan made a return visit to the streets of New York Wednesday, joining the weekly vigil of Grandmothers Against the War outside Rockefeller Center.
( see: http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/58737.html )
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But Sheehan vowed to turn up the heat by returning to the front gate of the White House as soon as the death toll of American soldiers hits 2,000 (as of Tuesday it was 1,968). “I’m going to deliver a speech and then I’m going to get arrested. And when I get out I’m going to go back and get arrested,” Sheehan told the Voice.
Sheehan said she now believes lobbying and marching in the streets is no longer enough and that “nonviolent civil disobedience is the way we have to go” to end the war.
more:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1020-10.htm
Maybe we need Grannies at Shannon?
I know of at least one grandmother, one grandfather, and a little girl who's done some (arrestable) civil disobedience at Shannon Airport, the Aviation Authority building, or Government Buildings.
Peace on Trial website may not be alive and kicking from China but it's working fine in Ireland and regularly updated over the past weeks.
Best of Luck lads, give 'em heaven!
Article & Essay: The Costs of War at Walter Reed
By Stewart Nusbaumer
I see in the halls of Walter Reed hospital soldiers with leg braces and neck supports, soldiers with faces slashed by bombs and stitched up by doctors. Soldiers with legs terribly mangled, soldiers with no legs -- amputees with short stumps, with long stumps, without any stumps since entire limbs are missing. A man walks by without an arm. I suddenly travel back in time to another war, to another hospital when I was one of those young men without a limb. But the human carnage and waste in Walter Reed is too overwhelming to escape for more than a flash of time.
At the Army’s flagship medical facility, where thousands of wounded soldiers pass through, there is no political spin, no media filter, no presidential lies, and no patriotism without cost as there is in America. There are only the wounded and mangled from Iraq. There is the ground zero for ugly war reality. For these men and women there was no safe “Champagne Unit,” no other options, no Ivy League hiding, no just talking while others did the fighting. At Walter Reed there are not Chickenhawks.
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In America’s shock and horror at Walter Reed there are rules. I will give you the four that I believe are most important....
read the rest...
Inside Walter Reed Army Hospital is the horrible reality of the Iraq War, a reality that few Americans see, and fewer want to see.
In an October 20 article on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's questioning before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, The New York Times reported: "The hearing was punctuated by a heckler who called for an end to the war, only to be hustled out." But what one would not know from reading the Times' account was that the "heckler" is a former senior-level U.S. diplomat and former Army colonel. The Washington Post report on the hearing noted: 'As Rice testified, former U.S. diplomat Mary Ann Wright stood up and shouted from the audience, "Stop the killing in Iraq. You and Congress have to be responsible." Wright, a senior envoy in the U.S. embassies in Afghanistan and Mongolia, resigned in protest in 2003.'
from
http://mediamatters.org/items/200510200001
former U.S. diplomat Mary Ann Wright's
March 19, 2003 Resignation Letter...
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0303/032103wright.htm
more info about Mary Ann Wright
http://www.truthuncovered.com/interviews.php#colonelmaryannwright
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