Lessons for Shannon from the Successful Campaign to Close Jabiluka Uranium Mine

dublin | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Thursday June 03, 2004 15:05 by Ciaron - Dublin Catholic Worker 83 Corrib Rd. Kimmage D6W (intersects with Lwr. Kimmage Rd.) 087 918 4552

Video Screening (45 mins) & Short Reflection by Blockader

VIDEO SCREENING AND REFLECTIONS ON THE NONVIOLENT CAMPAIGN TO CLOSE THE JABILUK URANIUM MINE (NT Australia)
LESSONS TO BE LEARNT FOR THE SHANNON CAMPAIGN!

ON SUNDAY EVENING (june 6th.) 7.30 PM there will be a screening of "Minds and Energy" a video dealing with the successful nonviolent direct action campaign that closed the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Ciaron O'Reilly of the Jabiluka Ploughshares will also share reflections on the campaign that closed the mine in the traditional homeland of the Mirrar people & beautiful wetlands of the Kakudu National Park.

The 1998 blockade deals with the creative nonviolent direct action, the action camp and tensions between activists, movement bureaucrats, symapthetic clebs and the most authoritarian/racist police force in Australia.

Most activists travelled 4,000 (Brisbane) 5,000 (Sydney) & 6,000 (Melbourne) miles roundtrtip to camp in an unfamiliar environment - one tap for 500 blockaders at one point.

ERA announced this year that they are filling in the mine shaft. Lessons can be drawn for the nonviolent direct action to demilitarise Shannon Airport in Ireland.

VENUE - 83 Corrib Rd. Kimmage, 19A to Lower Kimmage which intersects with Corrib
More Info 087 918 4552

(Take 19A to Lower Kimmage Rd. Get off at bus stop after 2 petrol stations, turn left into Corrib, house is to the right of the roundabout park in Corrib)

**These evening are part of the Dublin Catholic Worker open house evenings. They are preceeded by
7 pm - Soup
6 pm - Catholic Worker liturgy
*Feel free to come to what ever part of the evening you feel comfortable with!
RSVP for soup quantity would be helpful but not essential text 087 918 4552, email dublincatholicworker@yahoo.co.uk