Shannon Solidarity.
A total of 18 people are currently facing prosecution out of the October
and March mass direct actions at Shannon airport, a civilian airport in
the west of Ireland which is being used to ferry American troops and
supplies to the Middle East.
In addition 5 people are in the courts out of the Catholic
Worker/Ploughshares autonomous action, and 4 of them are in Limerick
prison. Also Mary Kelly is facing charges for taking a hammer to a U.S.
military transport plane.
Write to the prisoners:
Deirdre Clancy
Karen Fallon
Damien Moran
Nuin Dunlop
c/o 210 Le Fanu Road, Ballyfermot, Dublin 10, Ireland
(write to each prisoner individually)
Donate to the Ploughshares Defense Fund by making cheques payable to
"Peace and Reconciliation" c/o Ploughshares, 134 Phibsborough
Rd., Dublin 7, Ireland.
Donate to the 18 mass direct action defendants:
Cheques can be made out to Shannon Solidarity, and sent to Shannon
Solidarity, c/o Ecology Society, Students Centre, NUIG, Newcastle,
Galway, Ireland.
Or money can be sent to the Bank of Ireland in NUIG, Newcastle, Galway,
Account Number 89174196, Sort Code 904018, Account Name Shannon
Solidarity.
Send a message of support to Mary Kelly c/o Shannon Peace House, 19 Inis
Ealga, Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland
Further Information:
http://www.indymedia.ie
One of the defendants, Galway based Scottish writer, Rab Fulton, comments:
“Our arrests bring up to 50 the amount of people arrested whilst using civil disobedience to try and highlight and stop Irish involvement in Anglo/American war crimes.
The difficulty for us all is that the government has put out a revisionist view of civil disobedience: it is something apparently that is only carried out by extremists and people desiring violence. There is of course no proof to back up such ridiculous claims. But the government assertion has been widely accepted by large sections of the media and political classes.
It is disquieting to hear such distortions being so readily accepted. We who are involved in civil disobedience talk of the African Americans in Montgomery Alabama, the children strikers of Soweto, Gandhi, green ham common, the smashing of the Berlin wall, the actions of Greenpeace. Violence has never been a part of our discourse. Yet the government is getting away with this frightening re-interpretation of what civil disobedience is. It means that the number of arrests, the seriousness of the charges brought, and levels of punishments handed out are increasing without any public debate on the matter. Meanwhile of course, the planned execution of tens of thousands of Iraqis, goes completely unpunished.”
