Saturday, September 09, 2006
Pitstop Ploughshares to speak in Belfast and Derry
Derry: Monday, 11th September, 8pm
Context Gallery, The Playhouse, Artillery St., Derry
Speakers
Two speakers from the Raytheon 9 Awaiting Trial
Deirdre Clancy (Pitstop Ploughshares and Anti-War Ireland)
Ciaron O'Reilly (Pitstop Ploughshares)
The Derry Anti-War Coalition held a non-violent occupation of the Raytheon facility in Springtown on 9 August, in protest at the war crimes committed in the Middle East using weapons supplied by Raytheon. There is some evidence, for example, that it was a Raytheon Guided Bomb Unit which was used by the Israeli military in the atrocity in Qana in Lebanon and that many of the cluster bombs dropped on Southern Lebanon are connected to Raytheon. Nine of the protestors now face serious charges, with jail terms if they are convicted. This meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss their campaign, and to hear the recently acquitted Pitstop Plougshares activists discuss the campaign to demilitarise Shannon Airport.
Belfast
Tuesday, 12th September 8pmJury's Inn, Great Victoria Street, Belfast.On 25th July, a 12-person jury in Dublin's Four Courts unanimously acquitted five anti-war activists - the Pitstop Ploughshares - for their decommissioning of a US warplane at Shannon airport in February 2003. The jury heard, listened and understood when presented with a defence that the five acted to protect life in Iraq and Ireland. Despite a sustained effort by the state to criminalise these anti-war activists, 12 randomly selected Dublin jurors damned Irish complicity with the US war machine by finding them not guilty of any offence. Two members of the former Pitstop Ploughshares - Deirdre Clancy and Ciaron O'Reilly - will speak at the meeting. Also speaking will be Colm Breathnach of Anti-War Ireland.
Context Gallery, The Playhouse, Artillery St., Derry
Speakers
Two speakers from the Raytheon 9 Awaiting Trial
Deirdre Clancy (Pitstop Ploughshares and Anti-War Ireland)
Ciaron O'Reilly (Pitstop Ploughshares)
The Derry Anti-War Coalition held a non-violent occupation of the Raytheon facility in Springtown on 9 August, in protest at the war crimes committed in the Middle East using weapons supplied by Raytheon. There is some evidence, for example, that it was a Raytheon Guided Bomb Unit which was used by the Israeli military in the atrocity in Qana in Lebanon and that many of the cluster bombs dropped on Southern Lebanon are connected to Raytheon. Nine of the protestors now face serious charges, with jail terms if they are convicted. This meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss their campaign, and to hear the recently acquitted Pitstop Plougshares activists discuss the campaign to demilitarise Shannon Airport.
Belfast
Tuesday, 12th September 8pmJury's Inn, Great Victoria Street, Belfast.On 25th July, a 12-person jury in Dublin's Four Courts unanimously acquitted five anti-war activists - the Pitstop Ploughshares - for their decommissioning of a US warplane at Shannon airport in February 2003. The jury heard, listened and understood when presented with a defence that the five acted to protect life in Iraq and Ireland. Despite a sustained effort by the state to criminalise these anti-war activists, 12 randomly selected Dublin jurors damned Irish complicity with the US war machine by finding them not guilty of any offence. Two members of the former Pitstop Ploughshares - Deirdre Clancy and Ciaron O'Reilly - will speak at the meeting. Also speaking will be Colm Breathnach of Anti-War Ireland.