War is Terror is War: Ten mile walk from Doolough to Louisburgh, Co

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday May 26, 2003 19:05 by 10 miles

War is Terror is War A ten mile walk from Doolough to Louisburgh, Co Mayo will take place on Saturday 31 May 2003 at 2pm.

War is Terror is War
A ten mile walk from Doolough to Louisburgh, Co Mayo will take place on Saturday 31 May 2003 at 2pm.

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This being organised by Afri in association with Louisburgh Community Project.

Walk leaders include:
Brendan Forde, a Franciscan priest who has spent the last thirty years working in solidarity with poor communities in Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala and Columbia. He was expelled from Chile following hte US-backed coup that overthrew the democratically elected President Allende in 1973. The coup took place on September 11 1973 and resulted in the 'disappearance' of three thousand people - not to mention the thousands that were tortured and killed in the years after the coup. Brendan is a keen walker and has taken part in the Afri walk on a number of previous occasions.

Kathy Kelly, a foundre member of Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the US/UN sanctions on Iraq. Since the foundation of the organisation in 1996, she has committed virtually all her time and resources to this case. During the first Gulf War she stayed in IRaq until she was evacuated and then remained on in Jordan co-ordinating medical relief and food convoys. During the second and continuing war on Iraq she stayed in Baghdad right up until the Coalition forces invaded the city. In 1998 she was sentenced to one year prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites.

Nuria Mustafa, born and lived in Iraq until she was forces into exile in 1979. She is an anit-war activist and has taken her message to schools and communities, especially in the Galway are where she lives. She was an insightful and compassionate analyst during the war on Iraq, critical of both the Saddam regime and the 'Coalition war', and appeared on the Late Late Show and many other current affairs and discussion programmes. She plans to bring a medical aid convoy to Iraq within the next couple of months.

Fr Pat O' Brien, a Mayo born priest, poet and broadcaster who has been involved in anti-war activities since the late 60's. He is currently working as student Chaplain with the Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT).

An exhibition of photographs commemorating the Famine, by members of the Louisburgh Photographic Club will be officially opened by renowned photographer Derek Speirs. This will take place on Friday 30 May at 8pm in the Granuaile Centre, Lousiburgh.

A Céilí will take place on Saturday night in the Derrylahan, Louisburgh from 9pm - 11.30. Fáilte roimh gach duine.

For further details contact:

Afri 134 Phibsborough Rd, Phibsboro, Dublin 7
Tel: 01 8827581. Email: [email protected]

Louisurgh Community Project, Louisbrugh.
Tel:098 66218. Email: [email protected]