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Friday April 18, 2003 15:36
by Dave - Catholic Worker
pitstop_plooughshares at hotmail dot com
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Jump To Comment: 1 2These folks put themselves on the line at Shannon this morning. Let's support them as they go to trial. Help cover court transport costs and other expenses
donations made payable
to "Peace and Reconciliation"
c/-Good Friday Shannon Action
134 Phibsborough Rd.
Dublin 12
There in court for us, we're on the loose for them
Resistance is fertile, Fri. 18th, 2:57am
3am Libation completed at edge of runway in peace
Two members of the radical anti-war Catholic Worker Movement (see www.catholicworker.org) were arrested inside Shannon Airport in the early hours of Good Friday. Jenny Hannon of Dublin and Martin McGowan of Sligo were detained by airport security and police after making their way into the airfield. They had constructed a shrine to the Iraqis slain in the recent U.S. military assault, conducted the Catholic Office of the Dead and began to plant a bed of potatoes. By 3.45am they were still airside, where they continued their libation at the edge of the runway in peace.
Jenny Hannon stated,
"We come to Shannon Airport on Good Friday to recognise the ongoing crucifixion of the people of Iraq. Our airports have been complicit in the decade-long enforcement of genocidal sanctions, and now the past month of intensified bombing in Iraqi towns and villages.
"By allowing refueling of U.S. military flights at Shannon, Ireland is now co-operating with a huge armed robbery of Iraqi resources to be plundered. The entire infrastructure of Iraqi society - deliberated destroyed by U.S./U.K. bombs in the Gulf Wars - faces privatisation by U.S. corporations - water, roads, hospitals, etc.
"We remember the dead and dying, and plant potatoes as a symbol of new life, returning the land occupied by Shannon Airport to a proper relationship with a God of Life and Love." (see www.refuelingpeace.org).
[They were finally detained at approx. 6am. Both have been released since and will appear before Ennis District Court on May 8th.]
In early February five other members of the Catholic Worker Movement were arrested after disarming a U.S. Navy warplane at Shannon Airport. Karen Fallon accepted bail yesterday afternoon, joining the other four bailed awaiting trial. (see www.ploughsharesireland.org)
CONTACTS:
Ciaron: (087) 918 4552
Jennifer Hannon (087) 2619938
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