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21-Feb-2005

PitStoppers call for international solidarity vigils

by: Pit Stop Ploughshares

Photo of PitStop Ploughshares with Martin Sheen

PitStop Ploughshares with Martin Sheen.
PHOTO: PitStop Ploughshares ,

Ireland: On Monday 7 March the "Pit Stop Ploughshares" - Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon, Damien Moran & Ciaron O'Reilly - go to trial at Dublin's Four Courts. The criminal damage charges of $US2.5 million and arise from their nonviolent disarmament of a US Navy war plane at Shannon Airport on 3 Feb 2003. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment if convicted.

(For more background, check out the group's new website at http://www.WarOnTrial.Com.)

CALL FOR SOLIDARITY VIGILS ON 7 MARCH AT IRISH EMBASSIES, CONSULS & SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE

Over the past two years, solidarity vigils with the Pit Stop Ploughshares have been held at Irish Embassies & Consuls in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, Brussels, London, Gottenburg, Houston, Chicago, New York City, Dili/East Timor and also at sites of significance - US Base at Christchurch Airport, Bishop Romero's tomb, the Berlin gate, military recruitment centres in England & Australia.

The solidarity vigils will demand Ireland withdraw it's complicity in the ongoing US invasion, occupation and plunder of Iraq.

If you can do a solidarity vigil on 7 March, send your contact details to ploughsharesireland@yahoo.ie

Confirmed Vigils
Brisbane - Treena Lenthall treenarose@yahoo.com.au
Melbourne - Paul Dyson pwdyson@yahoo.com
London - London Catholic Worker
mariascott2000@yahoo.co.uk

Source: PitStop Ploughshares