IAWM BULLETIN 20 September 2015

END THE WARS THAT CAUSE THE REFUGEE CRISIS

This week is a busy week for anti-war events but if you can only do one thing we urge you to come along to our IAWM protest this Thursday at 5.30pm, assembling at the EU Offices on the corner of Dawson St. and Molesworth St, Dublin 2.

See link to poster on FB here - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153304735858347&set=gm.1146074342082252&type=1&theater

While Governments prevaricate and now even those countries previously willing to accept refugees are sealing the borders, the desperate refugees fleeing wars in the middle east need our help more than ever. This is an era-defining moment and it needs clear, open, honest organisation to solve it.

Governments should stop sitting on the fences or playing to their xenophobic galleries and welcome the generous response by ordinary citizens throughout Europe, including here in Ireland. Those people and organisations must be allowed to be part of the organised solution.

IAWM BULLETIN 11 SEPTEMBER 2015

In this bulletin:

1. United Against Racism protest for refugees at the Spire, Dublin this Saturday, 2pm.
2. Anti-war meeting at 27th Desmond Greaves School, Dublin, 11-13 September
3. John Lannon’s (Shannon Watch) letter in Irish Examiner on Ireland and the refugee crisis
4. Donating to the IAWM

1. Protest for refugees at the Spire, Dublin this Saturday 12 September, 2pm.
Organised by United Against Racism
Call on the Irish government to take in more refugees

Link to facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/events/922920274441879/

All IAWM members are encouraged to attend this important demonstration supported by many diverse groups in soildarity with the refugees.

On the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack the world is anything but a safer place, especially for the people of the middle east where the legacy of post 9/11 US and EU policies are manifesting themselves in more terror, total destabilisation and the fleeing of traumatised men, women and children.

Irish people have shown through polls and pledges of accommodation that they are ahead of the Irish Government in seeking to assist these war-weary refugees. It is equally important that we force the US and EU Governments to stop fuelling and arming the wars that force these people to try desperate and dangerous means to leave their countries in the first place.

In 2008, Joseph Stiglitz estimated that the combined cost of the immoral and brutal Iraq and Afghanistan wars was $3,000,000,000,000. One Cruise Missile alone costs $1,500,000. How many of these rained down on Iraq and Afghanistan? How much needed health, education, housing, and environmental protection could have been provided by these funds wasted on destruction? And how many refugees would these huge expenditures now provide shelter for?

2. Anti-war meeting at 27th Desmond Greaves School, Dublin, 11-13 September.

IAWM BULLETIN 24 August 2015

END THE WESTERN-LED WARS AND PLUNDER THAT CAUSE THE REFUGEE CRISIS

Come along to our protest this Thursday at 5pm at the EU Offices on Dawson St., Dublin 2.

Speakers include:

Ruth Coppinger TD, Socialist Party
Cllr. Brid Smith, People before Profit
Cllr. Sarah Holland, Sinn Féin, Mayor of South Dublin County Council
Rev. Patrick Comerford, President Irish CND
Caoimhe Butterly, Anti Racist Network
Representative from Kinsale Road Accommodation Centre KRAC
Memet Uludag, IAWM (audio link from island of Kos, Greece)
A Syrian refugee in Ireland

2. IAWM STATEMENT ON THE REFUGEE CRISIS

IAWM BULLETIN 06 August 2015

In this bulletin:
1. Irish CND Hiroshima Commemoration today
2. IAWM PR on Callais refugees and Walli Ullah Safi
3. Donating to the IAWM

1. Irish CND Commemoration for Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
The annual commemoration for the victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb will take place on Thursday 6th August, 1.05 p.m. at the memorial cherry tree in Merrion Square park, Dublin 2.

The event is organised by the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. An estimated 80,000 people were directly killed by the bomb, with casualties reaching 140,000 within a year.

IAWM members are encouraged to attend.

IAWM BULLETIN 17 JULY 2015

1. Shannon Airport Protest, Saturday 18 July, 2-4pm

IAWM members are encouraged to attend this important protest to let the Irish Government know that we object to the use of Shannon Airport as a facility to the US Military machine in its perpetuation of continuous wars in the middle east and elsewhere.

Statement from Shannonwatch
As Shannon Airport prepares to stage an air show on July 18th to celebrate its achievements in the world of aviation, peace groups in Ireland issue a reminder that its recent history is not one to be proud of. Since 2001 the airport has been used by the US military as a gateway to wars in the Middle East. These wars have resulted in the death of innocent men, women and children, left millions of people homeless, and destroyed communities and entire countries.

“While it is fitting to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the first commercial transatlantic flight from Shannon Airport and to acknowledge its important role in aviation in Ireland, we cannot ignore the fact that in the last 15 years it has been used to illegally invade Iraq and Afghanistan and has been part of the CIA’s global campaign of kidnapping and torture” said John Lannon of Shannonwatch.

“Shannon became the original airport gateway between the US and Europe and was the birthplace of Duty Free. It is now a gateway to human suffering and war.” added Mr Lannon.

IAWM BULLETIN 19 JUNE 2015

1. Solidarity with refugees | World Refugee Day | Saturday 20 June, 5pm | Dublin
2. Donating to the IAWM

1. Solidarity with refugees | World Refugee Day | Saturday 20 June, 5pm | Dublin

At the Famine Memorial and The World Poverty Stone, Custom House Quay, Dublin.

The IAWM is supporting this event and we encourage members to attend.

See below and the FB link from Memet Uludag of United against Racism.

https://www.facebook.com/events/103696833304956/