D15 Pit Stop Ploughshares Back in Four Courts

dublin | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Saturday December 13, 2003 01:20 by Pit Stop Ploughshares 087 918 4552

Solidarity with Anti-War Activists on Trial

Join the five on a journey of nonviolent disarmament and resistance to the ongoing war on Iraq.

DUBLIN, IRELAND - PIT STOP PLOUGHSHARES BACK IN COURT MONDAY DEC 15TH.

*The Pit Stop Ploughshares charged with $U.S. 2.5 million "criminal damage" to a U.S. Navy War Plane & 200 euro "criminal "damage to a hangar window are due to appear before Judge Mathews at the Four Courts, Dublin on Monday Dec 1th.

The charges carry a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment and arise out of their nonviolent disarmament of a U.S. navy war plane at Shannon Airport on February 4th.

Over 115,000 U.S. troops have passed through Shannon this year on their way to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Ireland has become the U.S. door mat to Iraq. Shannon has become the European gateway to Iraq for U.S. forces.

Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon, Damine Moran and Ciaron O'Reilly will be represented by legal counsel on Monday in pre-trial argument. A trial date has yet to be set.

*Monday 9 am Sharp

Supporters are asked to accompany the Pit Stop Ploughsares to court. Please wear black in memory of the war dead, please gather at the Christmas Tree and nativity scene in O'Connel St. Dublin (near The Spire, GPO), please bring cardboard cartons in Christmas wrapping bearing "the gifts Shannon and the U.S. military have delivered to the children of Iraq"..."depleted uranium radiation", "cluster bombs", "cruise missile", "civilian dead", "bombed hospitals", "cholera", "typhoid" etc. These will be left at the tree!

*Monday 10 am Vigil outside the Four Courts, Dublin.

International support are asked to vigil at Irish embassies and consuls against the use of Shannon by the U.S. military or phone consulates and embassies with messages of protests

In peace and solidarity



Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon, Damien Moran, Ciaron O'Reilly

www.ploughsharesireland.org

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The prophets tell us who we could be,
So we hide the poor,
And kill the prophets" - Phil Berrigan