Raytheon 9 public meetings/Film showings in Cork

cork | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Friday February 09, 2007 09:47 by Pat OSullivan. - Cork Alliance Against War

Raytheon 9 public meetings/Film showings in Cork

Public Meetings/Film Showings organised by the Irish Anti War Movement

RAYTHEON 9: On Trial For resisting Bush's War
Speaker: Colm Bryce (Derry Anti War Coalition and Raytheon 9)

Venue: Metropole Hotel, Macurtain St
Date: Thurs Feb 15th - 8 PM sharp.

Plus showing of "BACK FROM BEIRUIT"
Film produced by Derry Anti War Coalition on a delegation to Lebanon during November 2006.

Also College meeting
Thurs Feb 15th - 1PM
UCC:Room: LG 52
Kavanagh Pharmacy Building

Background/Statement by the Raytheon 9:

On 2nd July, Joshua Casteel of Iraqi Veterans Against War and Hani Lazim of Iraqi Democrats against the Occupation spoke at a packed meeting of the Derry Anti War Coalition.
In the course of the meeting, over 70 people agreed that DAWC needed to think of new ways of exposing Derry’s role in the arms trade. Raytheon is one of the largest arms manufacturers in the world and, despite all the local parties backing Raytheon’s presence in the town, there is real anger at the possibility that Derry contributed in the smallest way to massacres in Lebanon and Gaza.
Following a further packed meeting on Monday 7th August, it was agreed to take action against the presence of Raytheon, and their complicity in the murderous Israeli bombardment of Lebanon and the on-going wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There is some evidence, for instance, that a Raytheon Guided Bomb Unit was used in the atrocity in Qana.
Over 20 Derry Anti War Coalition members arrived at Raytheon’s offices on Wednesday 9 August 2006. When the opportunity to push our way into the offices arose, most of us tried to get in. The nine who are now known as the Raytheon 9 are those who succeeded.
The Raytheon 9 occupied and decommissioned the Derry Raytheon office on behalf of the Derry Anti-War Coalition which believes that it was legally and morally justified to engage in non-violent direct action to highlight Raytheon’s role as war profiteers and to call for the closure of its offices in Derry.
Derry Anti War Coalition is affiliated to the Irish Anti-War Movement and the Stop the War Coalition in Britain, and sees this action as an extension of the mass protests against war which we have helped organise, and have participated in, over recent years.
The Raytheon 9 have been charged with serious offences. We believe these charges to be unwarranted. No-one was threatened or injured during the occupation. The whole movement needs to demand that the charges against the Raytheon 9 should be dropped, or else we should all be charged along with them.

Come and hear Colm Bryce, one of the Raytheon 9 speak at this public meeting.

There will be a special screening of Back from Beirut, a Film produced by a delegation from Derry Anti War Coalition, including members of the Raytheon 9 on a visit to Lebanon in November.
The Raytheon 9 need your support.

Visit www.Raytheon9.org to see how you can help.

www.irishantiwar.org

www.corkagainstwar.org