John McDonagh Speaks: Iraq & The Truth Of The US Military Experience

dublin | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Thursday November 11, 2004 14:57 by Fairview Against the War

Organised by Fairview Against the War

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Iraq : The Truth Of The US Military Experience
Teachers Club, 8pm, Monday November 15th

Speaker : John McDonagh Video : "The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium and the Dying Children" Chair : Mary Kelly

John McDonagh is a Vietnam veteran and anti-war activist. He works with US veterans of the Iraq war and will describe the real experience of the US military in Iraq. He will talk about the level of morale and the resistance to the war and occupation within the US military. John also runs a radio station based in New York which has consistently opposed the US military use of Shannon and supported the disarmament actions of Mary Kelly and the Pitstop Ploughshares.

Also, will be shown a video on the work of Prof Siegwart-Horst Gunter who exposed the destruction caused by depleted uranium from the two Iraq wars and the war on Yugoslavia : "The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium and the Dying Children". Prof Gunter was recently in Ireland to support Mary Kelly at her trial in Ennis.