More Famine Walk Pics...

by Ciaron Mon Jun 02, 2003 02:00

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.

http://www.activelink.ie/ce/active.php?id=768

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.

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by Worried! Mon Jun 02, 2003 10:47

Dear Seanin,
The element of negativity in your posts suggest this is a difficult time for you with all these 'foreigners' from outside Mayo invading your county. By the way are you writing from an institution?

by Justin Morahan - Peace People Mon Jun 02, 2003 11:13 justinmorahan at eircom dot net

Mayo is my native county too. I am absolutely disgusted and I take grave offence at the remarks of the anonymous "Seainin".
If you hate these people so much why are you afraid to put your name to these filthy messages of yours.
Come out of the shadows Seainin and be brave for once. Put your name where your mouth is.
The Catholic Workers who posted the emails about the Famine Walk are people of excellence. They are courageous, humane, loving people who have put their freedom on the line for a great cause.
No-one who is human is "scum" but even if there were such a phenomenon, these wonderful and courageous people would be at the opposite end of the spectrum.
Ciaron, Nuin, Damien, Deirdre and Karen, I know you are big enough to overcome these disgraceful insults to your persons.
You also know as I do also that the people of Iraq paid for a shipload of food to be sent to Ireland during the famine. You gave up a lot of your freedom for the sake of the children of Iraq.
You may still have to give up more. Who is more entitled than you to walk the Famine Walk from Doolough to Louisburgh, (my native town).
I hope the lovely peole of Louisburgh and surrounding areas gave you all a great welcome.
It will have made up for the insults of the pseudo Mayo person (man or woman) who has offended you - and in doing so has offended me and thousands of other Mayo people.
I am sorry I could not have been with you on the day.
Once again, well done, Louisburgh. The people who are before the courts, Deirdre Clancy, Karen Fallon, Damien Moran, Nuin Dunlop and Ciaron O'Reilly all from the Catholic Worker movement and also Mary Kelly who did her own lonely disarming of a US warplane all need your continued support all the way to court on June 24.
Thank you Afri over and over for having organised this event the way you did. If you are the intended target of the insults in the previous email, I know that you too are big enough to overcome them.

by Seanin Fri Jun 06, 2003 13:00

Get out and don't come back. We don't need you patronising Dublin 4 scum. Get out.