VIDEO SHANNON BLOCKADE GRASSROOTS TOURS

international | anti-war / imperialism | news report Monday December 08, 2003 23:00 by IMC VID CREW - IMC IRELAND

VIDEO SHANNON ANTI WAR PROTEST

VIDEO SHANNON BLOCKADE 3min long

http://www.indymedia.org/video/metagen.php?url=rtsp://r1.loudeye.com/imc/mayday/shannon6thdec03.rm

http://www.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/shannon6thdec03.wmv

http://www.indymedia.org/video/metagen.php?url=rtsp://r1.loudeye.com/imc/mayday/shannon6thdec03.rm

http://www.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/shannon6thdec03.wmvShannon WARport Blockade VIDEO & PICTURES
6th DEC 2003 (felt like 1984)
STOP U.S. WAR Planes landing in shannon
Anti-War Activists blockade shannon airport - over 100,000 troops have passed through shannon so far this year, thousands of planes carrying weapons of war, with this Irish government cashing in to the tune of £14 Million in US revenues. GARDA Overtime bill for shannon same period £1 Million.
All Busses and Cars were searched - The Irony of searching Peace protesters for weapons, while protecting American millitary hardware on its way to an unjust War.
Irelands Nutrality lies in tatters and the mutual defence clause in the EU Constitution may well put the final nail in the coffin of Irish Nutrality.
A Symbolic attempt was made to enter the airport but was repelled with massive and overwhelming force. A Few scuffles occoured when a police van tried to drive through the blockade. The final act of provication came when at the end of the march when the protest was herded through a funnel of RIOT COPs in what can only be described as a blatent act of provication (miles from the airport, at the end of the demo, only 200 meters from the carpark) the bloc held there form - and the christmas fairys decorated there riot sheilds with shiny tat.