From The Newswire: All Systems go for Protest as POTUS Touches Down in Shannon?

The demonstration will assemble at 7pm in Shannon Town Centre. Protestors will then march to the terminal building at Shannon Airport. On the possibility of the protestors being prevented from entering Shannon, Anti-War Ireland says: “For the guards to prevent a peaceful protest from going ahead would amount to a serious breach of our civil liberties, and would be unacceptable. It would also be ironic, given that Bush expects to be applauded by our government for supposedly restoring democracy and civil liberties to the people of Iraq at the very moment ours are being threatened. At this point in time, we have no reason to believe that the protest will be banned. Anti-War Ireland has written to An Garda Síochana to give notice of a peaceful demonstration, and to indicate the march route. The gardaí have not been in touch with us, so we can only assume that it’s all systems go.” Invitational video: AVI WMV

THURSDAY 24TH JUNE
Shannon Peace Camp Opens / Update / Directions

FRIDAY 25TH JUNE
IAWM STOP BUSH Demonstration: Dublin: 7pm: Regional Demonstrations in Galway, Waterford, Tralee and Sligo: Also start at 7pm
Reclaim the Skies with Light and Noise: Anti War Ireland Protest: Shannon: 7pm: Guidelines
BushWalk for Fun and Peace Begins: Lahinch to Dromoland
UPDATES:
About 10,000 at Dublin, 1000 at Shannon. / Photos: 1 2 / c.2000 Galway
Aquatic protestors arrested
Police raid Peace Camp. Find balloons.

SATURDAY 26TH JUNE
Bush Off and Don't Come Back: Ambush/AWI March on Shannon Warport: Assemble at Bunratty Castle: 12 noon
IAWM Demonstration & March: Assemble Dromoland Castle: March to Shannon: 9-10am
Visual impact protest with a "black blanket die-in"
MacBeth/MacBush Sat 9am at Dromoland Castle.

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From the Newswire: Twenty-five year-old Caoimhe Butterly is used to attracting media attention. On November 27th 2002 the Guardian newspaper ran an in-depth interview with the human rights activist who had just suffered a gun shot wound from the hands of Israeli soldiers while out protesting in the streets of Jenin. That year also saw her profiled in TIME Europe magazine as a true 21st century hero. Butterly however finds the coverage embarrassing, and can’t help recoiling when reminded. “It was such a badly written article,” she cringed when questioned about The Guardian piece.

Butterly nevertheless welcomes the media interest, not for her personally, but for the causes she supports so wholeheartedly. As Indymedia first reported last Thursday, she has been camped outside the offices of Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH), undergoing a 14-day hunger strike. The hunger strike has been initiated in an attempt to focus attention on direct Irish complicity in the construction of the Apartheid Wall, which violates International Law and contributes to grave human rights violations of the Palestinian people. C.R.H. own a 25% stake in the Mashav Group, an Israeli holding company for Nesher Cement, which is the sole provider of cement in Israel.

Ammnesty International recently stated that “C.R.H., through it’s subsidiaries Mashav and Nesher is likely to be providing the raw material of the fence/wall..if so, it would contravene the U.N. norms on the responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises with regard to Human Rights(2003).”

As ordinary people have been busying their minds with the elections/referendum, Butterly has helped place the ongoing suffering in Palestine back to the forefront of people’s consciences.

Original Report (with pictures) of the start of her fast
Latest Update (from redjade)
After 14 days Caoimhe ends fast

Other Links:

• Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
• Amnesty Urges CRH to Explain Its Role on Israeli Wall 19^th Feb 2004
• IPSC Demands CRH Answer Questions on Apartheid Wall - May 23^rd, 2004
• Vincent Browne's piece in the Business Post on CRH's interesting dealings