Women in Black, Dublin (photo)

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Friday March 14, 2003 14:46

by redJaDe

{ photo by RedJaDe } (c)

Women in Black, Dublin
[from flyer]

We will meet on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month beginning on Thursday 13 March 2003.

We will meet at 5:15pm and stand in silence between 5:30pm and 6:30pm. We will alternate between two locations.

Thursday 13 March - meet at 5.15pm outside the GPO in O'Connell Street and every 2nd Thursday thereafter.

Thursday 27 March - meet at 5:15pm at the top of Grafton Street (Stephen's Green) and every 4th Thursday thereafter.

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http://www.womeninblack.net

Background:
'Women in Black is an international peace network. Women in Black is not an organization, but a means of mobilization and a formula for action. Women in Black vigils were started in Israel in 1988 by women protesting against Israel's Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Women in Black has developed in the United States, England, Italy, Spain, Azerbaijan and in FR Yugoslavia, where women in Belgrade have stood in weekly vigils since 1991 to protest war and the Serbian regime's policies of nationalist aggression. Women in Black New York have been standing in solidarity with the women of Belgrade since 1993.'
http://www.womeninblack.net/mission.html

'Women in Black has become a movement of women of conscience of all denominations and nationalities who hold vigils to protest violence in their part of the world: war, interethnic conflict, militarism, the arms industry, racism, neo-Nazism, violence against women, violence in the neighborhoods, etc. Each vigil is autonomous, setting its own policy and guidelines, though in all the vigils the women dress in black, symbolizing the tragedy of the victims of violence. What unites us all is our commitment to justice and a world free of violence.'
http://adot.com/green/wib.html

Also:

UK
http://www.womeninblack.org.uk
http://www.wibs.org.uk

USA
Seattle
http://www.speakeasy.org/~arboreal/wib.html
Washington DC
http://womeninblack.yullah.com

ISRAEL/PALESTINE
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/Activism%20pal%20solidarity/join_women_in_black.htm

also read:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12838

JAPAN
http://home.interlink.or.jp/~reflect/WIBTokyo/home.html

AUSTRALIA
http://www.womeninblackoz.com

ELSEWHERE
http://www.womeninblack.net/links.html