Solidarity Vigils During Bush Visit at Irish Embassies & Consuls Growing!

by Mike Schorsch - ex-Dublin Catholic Worker Sat Jun 26, 2004 17:15 schorscm at carleton dot edu

For those who may be reading in Chicago--

The vigil was moved at the last second to noon TODAY, Saturday (that's in two hours Chicago time). Same bat location, same bat channel.

Sorry for the late, late notice on this site. I didn't think to post here until just now.

Peace,

Mike

by Jill Fri Jun 25, 2004 13:33 Cardiff, Wales

Welsh vigil in solidarity with irish resistance to the the Bush visit & for the Demilitarisation of Shannon Airport is being held at the Irish


Consulate,Bush House, Fitzalan Road, Cardiff tomorrow (saturday) at 2.15pm.
A letter is being handed in to the Consulate at the same time.
More details about the event/copies of the letter: Ray Davies +44(0)2920 889
514 or jill stallard +44(0)1550 750 260
[email protected]

love to you all

jill

by Charles Boylan Fri Jun 25, 2004 02:46 Vancouver, Canada

PRESS RELEASE JUNE 24, 2004

Vancouver South Candidates Call Vigil Against George Bush At Irish Consulate


TIME: 12 NOON FRIDAY JUNE 25TH

PLACE: IRISH CONSULATE, 1385 WEST 8TH AVENUE, VANCOUVER

PARTICIPANTS: Vancouver South Candidates Charles Boylan (ML), Joe Six Pack Horrocks (CAP), Doug Perry (GP) and Stephen Von Sychowski (CP), other candidates, and peace activists. All media and public invited to attend.



REASON: TO CONDEMN GEORGE BUSH’S OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AND CANADA’S PARTICIPATION IN THE MISSILE DEFENCE TREATY! On Friday, June 25th, George Bush lands at Shannon Airport, Ireland for talks with NATO and the EU. Vigils have been called around the world at Irish Consulates and Embassies. The international vigils will be demanding the Irish Government withdraw Shannon Airport's provision of facilities to the U.S. military. The Irish government has transformed the civilian airport into the major pit stop for the U.S. war machine's invasion, occupation and plunder of Iraq. According to official figures, 125,855 U.S. troops have travelled via Shannn to the Middle East last year. For the last 18 months, an average of 10,000 U.S. troops have used Shannon as a transit centre to the Middle East. WHY JUNE 25TH. On the evening of June 25th. George W Bush will be landing at Shannon Airport, County Clare. He is in Ireland for the latest EU (European Union) - U.S. summit to be held at Dromoland Castle on June 26th. Also present at Dromoland Castle will be the representatives of EU states involved in the war - Italy, the UK and Poland. On June 26th. Bush will leave through Shannon to fly to Turkey for a NATO summit. NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE TO IRELAND'S ROLE IN THE WAR ON IRAQ Also at Shannon on June 25th. & at the Dromoland Castle on the 26th. will be the activist Irish peace movement (www.antiwarireland.org www.ambush2004.org). In a recent public opinion poll, 67% of Irish people oppose Bush's visit to Ireland. Shannon Airport has been the site of effective nonviolent resistance to the U.S./U.K war on Iraq. CANADIAN PEACE ACTIVISTS UNITED WITH IRISH PEACE ACTIVISTS

George Bush represents a dangerous policy of unilateral illegal invasions of sovereign states. Canadians must NOT sign the "Missile Defence Treaty", in reality a green light for US militarizing space.

END OCCUPATION OF IRAQ, HAITI AND AFGHANISTAN!

NO TO THE MISSILE DEFENSE TREATY!

Further Information: Charles Boylan, 778-772-8550; Joe Horrocks, 604-767-7178; Doug Perry 604-733-8699; Stephen Von Sychowski 604-254-9836

by Helen - Menwith Hill Women's Peace Campaign Wed Jun 23, 2004 16:02 Yorkshire, England

ANTI-WAR/RESIST BUSH
PEACE & SOLIDARITY VIGIL
Demilitarise Shannon Airport
Friday June 25th.
U.S. Spy Base
Menwith Hill
Yorkshire
England



Contact Helen [email protected]

by Carmen & NYCW Crew - New York Catholic Worker Tue Jun 22, 2004 16:55 NYC, USA 212 254 1640

ANTI-WAR/RESIST BUSH
PEACE & SOLIDARITY VIGIL
Demilitarise Shannon Airport
Friday June 25th. 12 noon - 2pm
Irish Consul
Ireland House
345 Park Ave
New York City

More info Ph. Carmen
at New York Catholic Worker Soup Kitchen Ph. 212 254 1640

*Just spoke to Carmen he reports that
Fr. Dan Berrigan SJ (of the 1968 Catonsville Draft Board raids & the initial Plowshares 8 action at GE) was rushed to hospital very ill.

Dan is 83. He and brother Phil spent many years in jail for nonviolently resisting the U.S. war machine. Booby Sands requested they visit as he was dying. They came but the military would not let them in.

Over 1000 people turned up to hear Dan speak in Dublin in July 2002, where he called for the demilitarisation of the Shannon airport.

Dan was at last year's vigil and when the consul staff realised who they had shut out on the street, they invited him up. He gave them a Jesuitical berating about the obligations of being Irish and human when the demons of war have been let loose.

If you would like to send a card to Dan
Dan Berrigan
220 W. 98th. St.
#11L
New York City
NY 10025
USA

Photos of Dan, Carmen & Crew outside Irish Consul last year on the link below.

by Ciaron - Dublin Catholic Worker & Pitstop Ploughshares Tue Jun 22, 2004 13:17 83 Corrib Rd. Dublin 6W IRELAND 087 918 4552 or 01- 492 6100

LIST OF IRISH EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES
http://foreignaffairs.gov.ie/embassies/display.asp


PHOTOS & REPORTS OF SOLIDARITY VIGILS FROM LAST JUNE
http://www.geocities.com/pwdyson/july24/index.html

by Ken Tue Jun 22, 2004 13:12 Houston, Texas

ANTI-WAR/RESIST BUSH
PEACE & SOLIDARITY VIGIL
in W's Home State!
Irish Consulate
2711 Weslayan
Houston
Texas
Friday June 25th.

More info. Ken
[email protected]

*Ken met Ciaron in the visiting room of Pecos County Jail, Texas following the first Gulf War.

Ken (60) recently completed a 6 month sentence for a trespass action at School of the Americas (www.soaw.org) Ft. Benning, Georgia. Ft. Benning is where many of the troops transiting though Shannon have their final combat training before departing the U.S.

Training at Ft. Benning includes prisoner treatment and interrogation techniques. The sniper who killed Bishop Romero of El salvador and the soldiers who killed the 6 Jesuits and 2 Salvadoran women 16/11/89 were trained at Ft. Benning.

Lt. Calley who was court martialled (serving 6 months in the brig) for putting 500 Vietnames in a ditch at My Lai and machine guning them has a jewellry store in the nearby town of Columbus. GA.

from ken...

ciaron,

thanks for the goose...i'll be at the at the office of the honorary consul (john b. kane) on friday, june 25...hope to have others and will try to present a demand letter to consul. i have posters...no need to send any.

by Br. Bill Tynan (taught Ciaron at high school!) - Bill lives & works in East Timor.Bill joined the sit-in at Irish Aviation Building Dublin, 4/11/03 Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:55 Dili. Timor Leste (East) (see photo onour webste 4/11/03..big bloke with beard & cap)

ANTI-WAR/RESIST BUSH VIGIL
Peace & Solidarity
Demiliatarise Shannon
Friday June 25th. 5 pm
Representative Office of Irish Govt.
12 Rua Durate ar biro
Farol
Dili

More info.
Br. Bill Tynan
[email protected]

by Mike Schorsch - (ex- Dublin Catholic Worker) Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:19 schorscm at carleton dot edu Chicago, USA 773 784 8065 (danny at voice in the wilderness office)

ANTI-WAR/RESIST BUSH VIGIL
Peace & Solidarity
Demiliatarise Shannon
Friday June 25th. 5 pm
Irish Consulate
400 N.Michigan Ave.
Chicago

More info Mike [email protected]
Danny (Voices in the Wilderness office 773 784 8065)

I just got in tonight and will try getting ahold of
Danny. One of my brothers may be up for it if no one else can make it.

I say 5 pm for the time. The Irish consulate is located at 400 N Michigan Ave.

If I don't get your poster in time, any suggestions for what you'd like my sign
to say?
Peace,
Mike

by Charles Boylan - Radio Journo with "Wake Up with Co-op Radio" Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:50 Vancouver, Canada

ANTI-WAR SOLIDARITY
VIGIL 12 NOON FRI J25
Demilitarise Ireland's Shannon Airport
Irish Consulate 1385 W.8th. Ave
More info Charles [email protected]

Anti war & SolidarityShannon was/is a big US air leap off point to Iraq just as Gander Airport in Newfoundland a fact not well known in the Canadian Peace Movement.
I have told Ciaron as part of the Irish Diaspora I would be there at the Irish Consulate on Friday June 25th at 12 noon at 1385 West 8th Avenue (if they've moved I'll find out and let you know asap).
This is a good opportunity for Canadian peace activists, anti-imperialists etc. to show concrete support for our brothers and sisters in Ireland who have undertaken an audacious, courageous and powerfully symbolic action to arouse the conscience of the Irish and world's peoples about the unacceptability of US imperialists using one's country as a staging base to launch brutal wars of aggression.
Please join me in a Vigil to Support the Irish Ploughshares activists as they battle in the Irish Courts to defend their right to sabotage US warplanes violating the Irish Constitution, world peace, Iraqi sovereignty and Irish dignity!

When: Friday, June 25, 2004 12:00 noon
Where: Irish Consulate, 1385 W. 8th Avenue

Bring your own hand made signs! Let me know by return e-mail if you think you can join with me!
Best wishes,
Charles Boylan

p.s. if organizations like Stopwar.ca, MAWO, Filipino Youth, any activist organization wants to join in or endorse the more the better!!
I'm specifically asking the Stopwar.ca steering committee to assist in this by endorsing a picket at the Consulate as Ciaron has requested, and forwarding the appeal to its membership list.

pps. For those in Ottawa and Toronto and Montreal who receive this notice perhaps something can be organized or is being organized at the Irish Embassy or Consulates in your area.

by London Catholic Worker & Joe Womble - ("We are the World!") Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:56 Irish Embassy 17 Grosvenor Place London 7HR 0795 119 3752 (London mobile)

hey ciaron, yeh we're going to the irish embassy at 11.30 am and then to the Ireland House where Irish buisness is done

Demilitarise Shannon/ Resist Bush
Anti-War & Solidarity Vigil
Friday June 25 th11.30am
Irish Embassy
17 Grosvenor Place
London 7HR
More info Ph./text Chris in London
0795 119 3752

by peace Mon Jun 21, 2004 17:35

and plowsharers