Pitstop Ploughshares to speak in Galway

galway | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Tuesday October 18, 2005 17:34 by EcoSoc

The Ecology Society of NUI, Galway will host a public meeting with members of the Pit Stop Ploughshares this Thursday, 20 October at 7.30 in the Fotteral Theatre. The Pitstop loughshares begin trial next Monday for two counts of criminal damage arising from their disarmament of a US warplane at Shannon airport in the early hours of 3 February 2003. If convicted they face up to ten years imprisonment.

Speaking on Thursday night will be Ciaran O’Reilly and Nuin Dunlop of the Pit Stop Ploughshares; Tim Hourigan, the Shannon
plane-spotter who uncovered the use of the airport by CIA torture jets; and Farrah, an activist with Voices in the Wilderness who
spent time in Iraq.

Ciaran O’Reilly and Nuin Dunlop, along with Karen Fallon, Deirdre Clancy and Damien Moran form the Pit Stop Ploughshares, part of the Catholic Worker movement, founded in New York in 1933 with the pledge to ‘comfort the afflicted and afflict the comforted’. On the
night a collection will be made for their legal defence. Please support.