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IAWM meeting - Making Shannon Warport an election issue
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Wednesday May 16, 2007 06:09 by Seán Ryan
The meeting went ahead on Monday 14th May with about 30 in attendance. Only one politician showed up - Patricia McKenna of the Green Party. I was at the meeting organised by the IAWM on Monday evening. |
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1PEACE DEMONSTRATION AT SHANNON SAT 19 May 2pm.
Peace activists will gather at Shannon airport this Saturday 19th May to highlight the continuing abuse of Shannon airport by US military and CIA.
“All political parties should be condemned for failing to make Ireland’s complicity in the Iraq War, and the loss of Irish neutrality an election issue” says
Roger Cole of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance.
“The world grieved for the 3000 killed in the US in September 2001, and now for a missing British child in Portugal, yet few in the West protest or grieve at the deaths of 262,000 Iraqi children as a result of Iraq war” according to peace activist Edward Horgan.
Conor Cregan, local peace activist from Shannon Town states that: “Peace activists are still liable to arrest at Shannon for exposing the truth, but the CIA are free to use the airport for torture rendition flights, and US military war-criminals have passed through without hindrance among the one million heavily armed US troops that have abused Irish neutrality with impunity”
58% of the Irish people are opposed to US military and CIA use of Shannon - democracy overruled.
We ask the people of Ireland to continue to hold this Government, and the next, to account over torture rendition, and complicity in the Iraq and Afghan Wars. We appeal to the Irish media to break the conspiracy of silence on Shannon, and to report the truth in the interests of humanity.
Contacts:
Edward Horgan, 085-1026631, edward.horgan@ul.ie,
Roger Cole, 087-2611597, pana@eircom.net,
Conor Cregan, 087-6981831, conor_cregan@hotmail.com,
"Paul O'Toole meets and is lied to by Fine Gael's Ivor Callely: Campaigning on the (pre-agreed) 'issues' - "
Did he lie about which party hes in? Ivor Callely is in Fianna Fail not Fine Gael.
Cieran Perry was unable to attend the meeting due to a prior engagement, he was meeting with a residents group. He sent a statement to the meeting which I distributed.
So, this is what the IAWM's lobbying of the political elite has come to. They've been ignored. I'd never have guessed. What it worth all that running around? Seems that the IAWM/SWP were simply sowing illusions.
Yet another reason why lobbying politicians is a complete waste of activists time. And, btw, the Greens will go into government regardless.