The Root Of War Is Fear !

by Elaine Tue Sep 06, 2005 03:52

... Merton had this to say...
"Such camps can be set up tomorrow anywhere and made to work with the greatest efficiency, because there is no dearth of people who would be glad to do the job, provided it is sanctioned by authority. They will be glad because they will instinctively welcome and submit to an ideology which enables them to be violent and destructive without guilt. They are happy with a belief which turns them loose against their fellow man to destroy him cruelly and without compunction, as long as he belongs to a different race, or believes in a different set of semi-meaningless political slogans."
- Thomas Merton (First published in the Catholic Worker, November 1967)

Laurence Has A Flyer

Laurence And Mick Advertising Their Upcoming Peace Vigil At The GPO On Sunday Evening

by DM Tue Sep 06, 2005 05:00

Rose Gentle, the mother of a British soldier killed in Iraq, will speak in Dublin on Thursday night. Rose's son, Gordon Gentle, was killed on June 28th 2004 by a roadside bomb in Basra, Iraq.

Mrs. Gentle has been invited to address a public meeting entitled 'The War Comes Home', organised by the Dublin Catholic Worker Movement, on September 8th at 7.30pm in Wynn's Hotel on Dublin's Abbey street.
Five activists aligned to the Catholic Workers are facing trial in Dublin's Four Courts on October 24th 2005 for disarming a US Navy plane at Shannon Airport before the outbreak of the Iraq war (www.peaceontrial.com).

Mrs. Gentle, 40, from Pollok in Glasgow, stood against Britain's Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram in the British General election last May. She campaigned to bring British troops home from Iraq and won 1,513 votes. She recently helped launch a legal bid to secure an independent inquiry in Britain into the legality of the conflict.

Other speakers on the night will include Catholic Worker anti-war defendant Ciaron O'Reilly. O'Reilly will speak about his upcoming trial for disarming a US plane at Shannon and the airport's role in the ongoing occupation of Iraq.
Finally, Brazilian activist Gustavo Barbosa will address the murder of Jean Charles De Menezes and the British government's
shoot-to-kill policy.

For more information contact Damien at 087 9638398

by Crikey Tue Sep 06, 2005 23:33 Brisban, Queensland, Australia

LINK below for photo & report on police bashing of Catholic Worker Jim Dowling at a public meeting discussing the erosion of civil liberties in the war on terror.......
http://www.crikey.com.au/articles/2005/09/06-1241-7743.html

by Duine Wed Sep 07, 2005 16:30

Go n-éirí leis na Caitlicigh !

Ach fréamh cogaidh an eagla?
Cad faoi an fhearg, an craos, an t-éad,7rl?

Agus an bhfuil slí eile le dul i ngleic le maistír tíre?

by TheTroll Thu Sep 08, 2005 00:00

And the fertilizer, as always, is DUNG!

Free Palestine!