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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 27, 2010 17:19 by catholic worker
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VID (8 mins 30 secs) - (A slightly hungover) Ciaron O'Reilly on "Christian Anarchism & the catholic worker". Talk given at Christian - Anarchist gathering in England 2010. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday July 19, 2010 16:23 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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It was over a decade since Chris Cole and I had been at the gates of British Aerospace (BAE) Warton in Lancashire, England. That was back in the day when BAE were making their money from butchering East Timorese. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday July 10, 2010 23:01 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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Last Wednesday, July 7th, Elijah Smith was released from Lewes Prison. He had been held since the Israeli bombing of Gaza in January '09. Along with his co-defendants he had been acquitted unanimously of all charges by the jury. This concluded 18 months the EDO 9 spent before the courts for their nonviolent resistance to the bombing of Gaza. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday June 03, 2010 11:21 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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I have just spent the last two days in a Belfast court attending the trial of 9 women and 2 men from Derry. Charges on 3 other men were dropped the Tuesday morning we drove up from Dublin. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday March 05, 2010 03:21 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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*On a surrealistic aside Jim Dowling is presently careering down the Pacific Highway in the recycled vegie oil fueled catholic worker van full of Dowling kidz - carrying Damien LeGoullon's entry into this year's Archibald Prize (Australian portrait competition). They'll be swinging by the appropriate Sydney gallery before heading to a wedding. See Damien's work attached to this email - the final portrait has a B52 Bomber and runway in the background! Portrait http://thechristianradical.blogspot.com/2010/03/clockin....html read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 05, 2010 14:31 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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VID 58 minutes - Howard Zinn was an American historian, social critic, and activist. He is best known as author of the best-seller A People’s History of the United States. In one of his last lectures before his death last week, he spoke at Boston University on November 11 2009, on the subject of American “Holy Wars.” http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/1/8/howard_zinn_t..._wars read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday January 30, 2010 15:09 by catholic worker
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The catholic worker is 70+ year old radical anarcho-pacifist movement of some 180 autonomous communities (mostly in North America) combining the practise of the acts of mercy and nonviolent resistance. The CW houses and projects refuse all state funding. The Philadelphia catholic worker operates a free clinic and has a longstanding relationship with the "Mathew 25 -House of Hospitality" free clinic in Haiti. The catholic worker delegation presently in Haiti includes CW nurse Joanna Berrigan, radical Detroit Bishop Thomas Gumbleton who has a long anti-war history and sanctios breaking in Iraq in the '90's and radical lawyer Bill Quigley who has longstanding involvement in Haitian human rights cases. Background on the CW dlegation and Mathew 25 project (including a television news report) can be found on this link..... http://www.indymedia.ie/article/95531&comment_limit=0&c...64761 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday January 27, 2010 11:19 by Resister
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*Background on School of Assasins (Americas) www.soaw.org *Send solidarity letters & postcards to peace prisoner.... Louis Vitale c/o The Resister, PO Box 43383, Tucson, AZ 85733, U.S.A. and we will forward it to him. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday January 02, 2010 16:05 by Kev
(CAIRO) Gaza Freedom Marchers yesterday, 1st January 2010, approved a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. Roughly 1400 activists from 43 countries converged in Cairo on their way to Gaza to join with Palestinians marching to break Israel's illegal siege. They were prevented from entering Gaza by the Egyptian authorities. As a result, the Freedom Marchers remained in Cairo. They staged a series of nonviolent actions aimed at pressuring the international community to end the siege as one step in the larger struggle to secure justice for Palestinians throughout historic Palestine. The following declaration arose from those actions: read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday December 22, 2009 07:14 by Jim Dowling
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Photos and Statement of July 9 '09 "Blockading the Road to Perdition" action...... http://talismansabre.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/catholic-...tion/ read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Saturday November 07, 2009 18:49 by Solidarity
Midwest catholic Workers' Nov 4th Die-In at the Qwest Center in Omaha NE at SRATCom's Space Weapons Bazaar called the Strategic Space Symposium on two Youtube videos: read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday November 05, 2009 00:09 by Solidarity
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Jesuit priest Bill Bischel, one of those arrested, attended court appearances of both Pitstop Ploughshares in Dublin and Raytheon 9 in Derry. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday October 07, 2009 14:37 by catholic worker
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61 anti-war activists arrested at the White House on the 8th. anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Those arrested included members of catholic worker communities, Code Pink, War Resisters League and Witness Against Torture. See link below for photos/video/reports of the action...... read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Monday September 14, 2009 13:25 by Eugene Mc Cartan
Women and the European Union Paper presented by Deirdre Uí Bhrógáin, National Executive Committee, Communist Party of Ireland, to Desmond Greaves Summer School, 2009 read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday July 09, 2009 10:47 by Rachael
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Australian catholic Workers, Jim Dowling and Ciaron O'Reilly were arrested this morning while blocking a major military access road to the Talisman Sabre 09 exercises being held at Shoalwater, central Queensland, Australia. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday July 01, 2009 05:50 by fightfirewithwater09
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Talisman Sabre 09 http://www.defence.gov.au/opEx/exercises/ts09/index.htm is a biennial exercise that involves 20,000 U.S. & 7,000 Australian troops, fighter jets and warships, it is taking place in July in central Queensland, Australia. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday June 05, 2009 06:51 by Ciaron
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Kathy Kelly is longtime U.S. nonviolent activist and anti-war resister. She has served prison sentences for nonviolent resistance to U.S. nuclear and interventionary war preparations. She was in the peace camp on the Iraq/Saudi border druing Gulf War 1, she initiated the sanctions busting "Voices in the Wilderness" movement in the mid-90's, was on the ground in Baghdad during the "Shock and Awe" bombardment of '03. She came to Dublin in '05 and '06 to testify at the 3 Pitstop Plougshshares trials and was recently arrested at the Nevada U.S. Air Force base where the U.S. drones have their firing mechanism pressed. She is presently in Pakistan...... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday May 21, 2009 03:48 by Ciaron
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For those who knew him and knew of him we are shocked and saddened by the killing of Larry in Guatamela. Larry served the poor in the streets of the U.S. and at the bloody edges of the empire.....El Salvador, Brazil, Guatamela. His nonviolent resistance was steadfast from the draft board raids of the Vietnam War to the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning and many places between. read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday April 28, 2009 17:07 by On behalf of London catholic worker
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catholic Workers Counter-recruitment at Dalston Military Showroom The British military have opened a recruitment/showroom in low income Dalston, London. It is "home to a virtual battlefield stimulator which gives vistors a chance to use their friends as target practice with a replica handgun . read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Sunday April 12, 2009 08:41 by Solidarity
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A number of faith based acts of nonviolent resistance to U.S. wars occured over the Holy Week season at the Pentagon, White House and Dept. of Energy in Washington D.C. and elsewhere. Here are some press release, images and reports...... read full story / add a comment |
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