Pit Stop Ploughshares Update

dublin | anti-war / imperialism | news report Monday June 07, 2004 02:05 by Pit Stop Ploughshares - Awaiting Trial in Dublin pitstoploughshares at hotmail dot com 83 Corrib Rd. Kimmage D6W (intersects with Lwr. Kimmage Rd.) 087 918 4552 or 01- 492 6100

Awaiting Trial for Disarmament of U.S. Navy War Plane at Shannon Airport 3/2/03

CONTENTS

1.Benefit Gig for Pit Stop Ploughshares June 8th. 8.30 pm Mother Redcaps, Dublin

2. Donations to Ploughshares Defence Fund

3. Mary Kelly's Disarmament Trial begins in County Clare, June 15th.

4. Anti-War Vigils at U.S. Embassy! Mondays 5pm-7pm

5 Sunday Open House at Dublin Catholic Worker

6. Caimohe Butterly Staging 14 Day Fast Outside CRH HQ- Against Concrete Proviers for Apartheid Wall in Palestine! Begins June 9th

7. Farewell to Treena Lenthall (DCW & Jabiluka Ploughshares)

1. MUSIC & RESISTANCE-Celebrate Disarmament with Kila's Ronan & Rossa O Snodaigh & Others

Benefit Gig for Pit Stop Ploughshares awaiting Trial in Dublin!

Mother Redcaps
June 8th. 8.30pm - late
UnWaged - 5 euro
Waged - 10 euro
Other Performers include - Paul O'Toole
- Afro-Celt Music
On 3rd February 2003, as part of ongoing nonviolent resistance at Shannon Airport, the
Pitstop Ploughshares disarmed a US nAVY warplane. Within the month, three of
the four companies contracted to ferry US troops and weapons had left
Ireland.

The Pitstop Ploughshares are currently out on bail. Their trial has been
moved to Dublin and will proabaly take place in October 2004

There will be a benefit gig for the Pit Stop Ploughshares Defence Fund at
Mother Redcaps (nr. Christchurch) on Tuesday June 8th. (8.30 pm - late)

Performing- Ronan & Rossa O'Snodaigh and other friends from Kila , Paul
O'Toole and Afro-Celtic music.
UnWaged- 5 euro Waged - 10 euro

More info. 087 918 4552



2. DONATIONS TO "PLOUGHSHARES DEFENCE FUND"

Donations can be lodged at any Bank
of Ireland branch: Ploughshares Defence Fund Account Number-18972983 Sort
Code-900551

For more information on the Pitstop Ploughshares disarmament action of a US
Navy Warplane in Feb., 2003,
www.ploughsharesireland.org

3 MARY KELLY'S DISARMAMENT TRIAL BEGINS IN COUNTY CLARE, JUNE 15TH

Five days before our ploughshares action, Mary Kelly had disabled the same
plane.
Mary faces a retrial in Ennis, Co. Clare from June 15th, 2004.
She received a hung jury in her initial trial at Kilrush Circuit court last
Summer.

Please visit her webpage and offer any solidarity you can to a courageous
woman who faces serious jail time if convicted of 'criminal damage'.

Advocates of Mary's action and who testifed in court last summer included
Dennis Halliday (former UN Humanitarian Aid Co-ordinator), Scott Ritter
(former UN weapons inspector in Iraq), Ramsey Clarke (former US Attorney
general under Kennedy/Johnson), and Michael Bermingham (Irish peace activist
who has lived in Iraq over the last 18 months)

www.freewebs.com/mary_kelly/

4 VIGIL AT U.S EMBASSY EVERY MONDAY 5 PM - 7PM (UNTIL BUSH ARRIVES ON JUNE 25TH.)

*Vigil & reading out the names of Iraq & U.S. war dead outside the U.S. Embassy (Corner of Elgin & Pembroke Rds. Ballsbridge, Dublin)

More info 087 9184552

Background on Vigils www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=65375

5. SUNDAY OPEN HOUSE AT THE DUBLIN CATHOLIC WORKER

*No open house at Dubln Catholic Worker Sunday 13th. as we are heading to the Mark Thomas gig (comedy mix of Michael Moore & Bill Hicks) at the Olympia on Sunday evening. Tickets 25 euro. Check his website

Website www.fnord.demon.co.uk/mt/markt.html

6. CAOIMHE BUTTERLY STAGING A 14 DAY FAST OUTSIDE CRH HEADQUARTERS, FITZWILLIAMS SQUARE, DUBLIN. *BEGINS JUNE 9TH.

Caoimhe Butterly has spent time as a peace & solidarity activist in Palestine and was shot in the leg for her troubles. Caoimhe is staging a fast outside the headquarters of CRH, an Irish company providing concrete for the Apartheid Wall in Palestine. Consider spending time with Caoimhe on the vigil. More info. 087 213 4160

7. FAREWELL TO TREENA LENTHALL

Treen Lenthall of the Dublin Catholic Worker & Jabiluka Ploughshares (www.plowsharesactions.org/webpages/JABILUKPLOWSHARES.htm)

After three years in Ireland, Treena returns to Australia at the end of June.

*Farewell Party at Dublin Catholic Worker

3 pm Liturgy

4 pm Reflections on the Ploughshares Movement from participants in Jubilee Ploughshares, Jabiluka Ploughshares, ANZUS Ploughshares, Pit Stop Ploughsares & Discussion

5 pm Party Bring some food to share and BYO alcohol

*RSVP Text/Phone 087 918 4552/ Phone 492 6100 or email [email protected]