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Knitting for Peace at Shannon
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Saturday January 10, 2009 13:19 by Margaretta D'Arcy - Women Knit for Peace margarettadarcy at gmail dot com
10 Hours in sub-zero weather Nollaig na nBan, 6th January: in sub-zero conditions women (and some men) kept alive the tradition of the Shannon Airport Women’s Peace Camp. The annual Women’s Peace Camp was started by Mary Kelly and myself in 2003 just before the invasion of Iraq. This year we did something different, spurred on a few weeks earlier by Fiona Wheeler as we were standing on the airport roundabout for our regular second-Sunday-of-the-month vigil. “Why don’t we,” she asked, “have a knitting circle?” Most of us hadn’t knitted for years. A son of one of the women sneered, “I didn’t think that women were to ‘get out of the house’ only to knit.” But the more one reflected, the more the symbolism took hold: to knit is to mend, to unite, to concentrate one’s thoughts. It was banned in parts of Denmark as being too subversive, “wool-gathering” men called it. It was also the grimly-significant activity of the women who sat under the guillotine knitting their enemies’ names into the fabric as the heads rolled into the basket... |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6& blessings on yr work for peace - keep reminding people; they might catch on!
I think this was a great idea. It should spread. I have knitted two political caps - one with the slogan 'Shell To Sea' and the other with the slogan 'VoteNo.ie'. I am working on a 'boycott Israeli goods' one now. It has proved easy to adapt a pattern to include words - I just pencilled them into a sums copy book.
It is also a great way to reject the mass-produced corporate logo knitted items - empowering in several ways.
Well done.
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By Caitrina Cody
Wednesday January 07 2009
A GROUP of anti-war activists kept away the winter chill with a small wood-burning stove yesterday as they held a Knit-For-Peace vigil at Shannon Airport in protest at the invasion of Gaza.
Armed with knitting needles and wool on Nollaig na mBan (Women's Christmas), the mood was upbeat despite the cold.
Organiser Margaretta D'Arcy was hopeful that the women's message of solidarity with the victims of war around the world would catch the attention of the Irish public -- and draw attention to Ireland's foreign policy responses.
"We hope that knitting, as a communal activity, will serve as a symbol to unite us in solidarity and mourning against the invasion of Gaza, and the complicity of the Irish Government in the Afghanistan war," she said.
The vigil, organised by the Galway Alliance Against War, took place outside the entrance to Shannon Airport from 11am until 9pm last night.
Our picture by Eamon Ward shows Roisin Ni Fhaolain from Galway, who was among among the women taking part.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/moral-fibre-wom....html