Shannon Peace Forum - Sat 21st March 2009

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 Alliance

Location: 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 O’Sullivan 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