International - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970
Thursday January 01 1970
Shannon Peace Forum - Sat 21st March 2009
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event notice 
Tuesday March 03, 2009 22:49
by Edward Horgan - Peace and Neutrality Alliance
Please attend this important event on 6th anniversary of Iraq War
Over ONE MILLION people have died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Ireland has participated in and been complicit in these wars.
These Iraqi and Afghan people are our brothers, sisters and our children, not, "some others" in a "them and us" war of resources.
Show your solidarity with the victims of a war that used Ireland as one of its principle launching pads.
Over ONE MILLION armed US troops and thousands of tons of munitions, passed through Shannon airport.
Over 1,000 CIA related flights were refuelled at Shannon airport, many of them associated with the US Torture rendition programme.
Shannon Peace Forum
Facilitated by the Peace and Neutrality AllianceLocation: Park Inn Hotel, Shannon Airport
Date: Saturday 21st March 2009, 1pm 5.30 pm
Forum themes and objectives: Peace, Justice and Accountability
12.00: Press Conference Neutrality and the Lisbon Treaty rerun
13.00 to 13.30 Forum Registration: (Admission waged 15, unwaged free Lunch available at Park Inn at about 10)
13.30: Opening address: The human rights of one million Iraqi dead
Dr Sawsan Assaf, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway.
14.00: Irish Neutrality-the Lisbon Treaty - Role of Shannon Airport in Iraq and Afghan wars. Panel: Roger Cole, PANA, Michael Youlton, IAWM, Prof John Maguire, AWI
15.00: Extraordinary Rendition Irish Complicity in abuses of international law
From Bush to Obama from Guantanamo Back to Bagram?
Noeleen Hartigan, Amnesty International, John Lannon, Shannonwatch.org, Professor Gernot Biehler, TCD.
16.00: Plenary Session Accountability and the Way Forward
Panel to include contribution from Political Parties including: Patricia McKenna Green Party, Jan OSullivan TD labour Party and Theresa Ferris, Sinn Fein
Objective a frank and open exchange of views.
Peace activists attending the Forum are invited to make written submissions, both before and after the Forum on various aspects of the two main topics, Neutrality and Torture Rendition, and on the additional topic of the way forward for the Irish peace movement.
17:30 Close of Forum - Accountability is the Way Forward
For more information contact Ed Horgan Tel: 086-3539911
edward_horgan@hotmail.com
Comments (4 of 4)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Insignia, number sanded off.
We've noticed more and more of these aircraft coming through without their normal paintwork. Are they trying to fly incognito?
The markings were almost completely sanded off, but just legible with binocs.
JW 5348 on the tail.
JW is a tail code for US Navy Fleet Logistics Squadron 62 (VR-62)
Here's a link to the same plane, before the paint job was sanded off.
Compare and contrast.
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=116724&nseq=3
US Navy Herc at Shannon 28 Feb 2009
Omni Air Troop transporter.
What's the chance of someone recording and uploading the audio of these events?
Would be nice for those who cannot attend :-)
We will do our best to video record the main events of this conference and make the contents available to those who cannot attend.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Edward
well done to all involved for orgainsing the event.
A suggestion for press release afterwards: ask an economist to add up the cost over the years of gardai and army surveillance/protection of Shannon airport, the cost to taxpayers of facilitating US military and Rendition flights, cost of 'policing' numerous demos, planespotters, processsing and prosecuting demonstrators to prison, trial,etc. These ill-spent billion$ are what people are most interested in this weather- and connecting the waste firmly to practices the majority do not support.
How about making a closer connection to the prisoners rendered through Shannon- eg Binyam Mohamed- who was probably kidnapped through Shannon taken to Morocco and Afghanistan and tortured there before being rendered up for years of special treatment in Guantanamo. Mr Mohamed has recently been released after the tireless work of many, including Clive Stafford Smith, defence lawyer with Reprieve www.reprieve.org.uk An invitation to Clive Stafford Smith to speak at Shannon would be an opportunity for good mutual links, and bringing the rendition right home.
How about formally inviting members of the Shannon Gardai, Special Branch, Ennis Superintendent and the top brass to attend the conference? They should be given the opportunity to participate, also the Army intelligence and army legal heads who helped Foreign Affairs Minister Ahern write a very crafty reply to the Council of Europe's questions about Irish facilitation in Rendition.
How about Amnesty inviting school and other groups to attend? Makes for a more educational and interesting mix of partcipants.
Good luck with it.
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