OZ Anti-War Activist Retrieves $7 Million Disarmament Hammer from Shannon Gardai! (Ireland)
A collection of hammers and other objects that were used to disable a US Navy plane in 2003 were turned over by Shannon gardai to one of the activists who carried out the action.
Veteran anti-war resister Ciaron O'Reilly held a press conference outside Shannon Airport Wednesday July 24th., following the return of hammers used to disable a U.S. Navy war plane at the airport in Feb 03. He brought the hammers and other returned property to the press conference.
O'Reilly was one of the Pitstop Ploughshares group, who along with Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon and Damien Moran were charged with $US 2.5 million criminal damage to a U.S. Navy war plane at Shannon in the build up to the invasion of Iraq. The group were intially imprisoned on remand in Limerick before being put on trial three times at Dublin's Four Courts. They were eventually acquitted unanimously by a jury at the Four Courts in August 2006. The groups action is the subject of Dublin journalist's Harry Browne's forthcoming book "Hammered by the Irish - How the Pitstop Plougshares Disarmed a U.S. War Plane with Ireland's Blessing!".
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Re: Disarmament Hammer from Shannon Gardai! (Ireland)
if i had a hammer i would hammer in the mornin...if i had a hammer ..
all over this world.
but the masses need the hammer of organistation and in order to defeat war and win national independance and peace it may be necessary to take up the hammer of peoples war.
VID (5.50) -"Iraq Veterans Against the War" Open Coffee House ne
VID (5.50) -"Iraq Veterans Against the War" Open Coffee House near Ft. Lewis
A group of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) are planning to start
up a GI coffeehouse near the entrance of the Fort Lewis military base
in Washington State. Though the project is still in its planning
stages, the idea is that it will be a center for supporting GI rights
and war resistance in the region, as well as a place for GIs to get
coffee right off the base.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iOSDz6_iww
Length - 5.50)
On a street littered with barber shops and abandoned dry cleaning
businesses in Tillicum, WA, the veterans have found several possible
locations for this project. Seth Manzel served in Iraq with a Stryker
Combat Team before joining his local chapter of IVAW, and is shown in
the video talking about these locations. Most of the places he and the
other vets have been checking out are abandoned dry cleaners, oddly
enough, because with fewer Army requirements for cleaning their attire
these places have virtually disappeared from the communities around
military bases.
A coffeehouse like this would be the first of its kind in the nation
since the 1970s. During the Vietnam-era dozens of coffeehouses popped
around the nation. In Texas one was called the Oleo Strut, which was
named after a part that made sure helicopters landed smoothly. In
October of 1968 coffeehouse known as the Shelter Half was established
Tacoma not far from Fort Lewis. It took its name from a makeshift
military tent structure. Aside from continual harassment from the
police force, however, the Shelter Half's shortfall was that its
location was still a twenty minute drive from the base. Still, it was
in its later years deemed "off-limits" by the U.S. Army. Jane Fonda,
the popular anti-war actress, was also banned from Fort Lewis around
this time. IVAW believes that one of the closer, newer locations will
be more effective.
When the Shelter Half opened its doors, the same month saw the first
issue of Counterpoint, a GI Resistance publication, followed by the
Lewis-McChord Free Press, B Troop News, and Fed Up! which were all
published off-base near Fort Lewis. This all happened within a short
period of time. The Seattle Chapter of IVAW last year started
publishing the GI Voice, a publication that makes its way onto Fort
Lewis, and has also begun a GI Radio project, available on
http://www.giradio.org/
info@giradio.org
Though GIRadio currently broadcasts from Seth's garage, playing re-runs
of Winter Soldier—IVAW's testimonies of about Iraq and war crimes
recorded in Washington D.C.—the vets plan to move the show to the
coffeehouse once its setup.
A number of individuals and groups have already started donating
equipment to the coffeehouse, such as a cash register. IVAW says the
next step in organizing is to raise enough money to pay for the lease
they need to start operating and selling coffee. They are several
thousand dollars short at this point.
As far as a name goes for the coffeehouse, the vets are tossing around
"Ogive Plunger" which is the name for a part on a Mk19, a gun that can
be mounted to a Stryker vehicle. Seth told me he thinks that's a silly
name though. IVAW and volunteers will vote on a name as the project
unfolds.
MORE
http://ivaw.org/chapter/seattle
Pepperspray Productions
PO Box 20626
Seattle, WA 98102
Vid Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iOSDz6_iww
Re:must be free coffeee to get military bums on seats
Now thats hitting the imperialists where it hurts.
But the coffee has to be free now,
Starbucks shows that the labour aristocracy ,in the growing economic crisis including those in the military, can no longer afford good coffee perks.
This may develope into a revolutionary situation .
it is well known that resistance to napolean in germany consolidated itself over the middle class in the face of the English blockade, not being able to import good affordable coffee.
they were tired of drinking the fake coffee invented and imposed on them by the french.
Solidairty with Robin Long Iraq War Resister - In Jail
Solidairty with Robin Long Iraq War Resister - In Jail facing Court Martial - Write him a Letter!
http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/content/view/609/1/
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