The Irish Anti-War Movement, The People’s Movement and PANA commit themselves to campaign for the State to immediately formally withdraw from all military an financial commitments under PESCO.
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Irish Anti-War Movement Press Statement 16 November 2015 After Paris: Stop the Terror, Stop the Wars The Irish Anti-War Movement believes it is necessary to break out of the vicious cycle of war, terrorism and more war and more terrorism in which we have become locked. The appalling events in Paris come 14 years after 9/11, (itself a response to previous wars and occupations in the Middle East) and the launching of George Bush’s so-called ‘War on Terror’. These 14 years have seen wars on and in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Palestine and elsewhere and yet, predictably the terrorist attacks continue. And still there are those like Francois Hollande and David Cameron who want to respond with more war and more bombing. The day before the Paris atrocity David Cameron and US Secretary of State were celebrating the killing of so-called ‘Jihadi John’ by a drone strike. The day after the Paris slaughter Francois Hollande says he will respond with ‘merciless war’ and France launches massive air strikes on the IS held city of Raqqa. But no one should imagine that these drone strikes and bombing raids only kill targeted terrorists – on the contrary they kill hundreds and cumulatively thousands and thousands of ordinary people thus fuelling further bitterness. The anger and rage inevitably unleashed by the horrifying attacks in Paris are then replicated in Syria, Iraq, or wherever the war is unleashed. The bitter desire for revenge continues. The Irish Anti-War Movement says we must break out of this cycle by stopping making war in the Middle East or, where the Irish Government is concerned, assisting the making of war by allowing the US military use of Shannon.
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Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) Press Release, 10 November 2015
1. Veterans for Peace wreath laying at Garden of Remembrance, Dublin this morning at 10.00am
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IAWM Press Statement, 22 September 2015 Irish Anti-War Movement Public Rally PROTEST AT EU COMMISSION AND PARLIAMENT OFFICES, DAWSON STREET, DUBLIN, 5.30PM. THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2015. REFUGEES ARE VICTIMS OF WAR – LET THEM IN! NO TO FORTRESS EUROPE. END THE WESTERN-LED WARS AND PLUNDER THAT CAUSE THE REFUGEE CRISIS See link to poster on FB here - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153304735858347&set=gm.1146074342082252&type=1&theater As Irish politicans return to the Dáil this week the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) is holding a public rally this Thursday at 5.30pm at the EU Offices in Dawson Street Dublin to highlight the plight of refugees fleeing war, the complete innadequacy of the EU Governments’ response and the fact that many EU Governments are actively engaged in the wars that are causing the refugee crisis in the first place. 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.
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IAWM Press Statement, 18 September 2015 PROTEST AT EU COMMISSION AND PARLIAMENT OFFICES, DAWSON STREET, DUBLIN, 5.30PM. THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2015. REFUGEES ARE VICTIMS OF WAR - LET THEM IN! STOP THE WARS FUELING THE REFUGEE CRISIS The Irish Anti-War Movement announced today that it will hold a protest at the EU Offices next Thursday evening at 5.30pm in relation to the ongoing refugee crisis. The statement noted:
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IAWM Press Statement, 08 September 2015 IAWM SUPPORTS UNITED AGAINST RACISM PROTEST THIS SATURDAY Public Demo: Call on the Irish government to take in more refugees 12 September 2015 | 14:00 | Saturday | The Spire, Dublin | 14:00 Organised by United Against Racism REFUGEES ARE VICTIMS OF WAR – LET THEM IN! END THE WESTERN-LED WARS AND PLUNDER THAT CAUSE THE REFUGEE CRISIS The Irish Anti-War Movement is supporting the public rally in solidarity with refugees organised by United Against Racism this Saturday in Dublin. Memet Uludag of both United against Racism and the IAWM said: “For too long and too many times the European governments have been engaged in a number game and racing to the bottom - in competition with each other - in terms of who should take the least possible number of refugees. Since end - 2014, there have been many things presented to us as the cause of the refugees coming to Europe. It was the ‘summer season and the calm seas’, or ‘the smugglers’, or ‘the pull factor of rescue operation’ (as supposed to the push factors of war and death etc.) or the EU-neighbouring governments not stopping refugees from entering Europe. In fact none of these were the actual causes of the refugee crisis. Our immediate duty should be to demand that our government must do more, a lot more. The numbers game should stop and the European Union (in a united fashion) but also individual countries, should do the right thing before it’s really too late for thousands of innocent people. We are calling on the EU to open borders and welcome the refugees. No more refugee deaths, no more delays. No more Fortress Europe. No more racist refugee policies.
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IAWM Press Statement, 27 August 2015 PROTEST AT EU COMMISSION AND PARLIAMENT OFFICES, DAWSON STREET, DUBLIN, 5PM. TODAY THURSDAY 27 AUGUST 2015. REFUGEES ARE VICTIMS OF WAR – LET THEM IN! END THE WESTERN-LED WARS AND PLUNDER THAT CAUSE THE REFUGEE CRISIS Speakers include: “The huge investment in war and the arms industry by the US and EU should be diverted to assist a formal programme of organised assistance and settlement of refugees throughout Europe, an Irish Anti-War Statement noted today. The organisation is holding a protest at 5pm this Thursday evening, 27 August, at the EU Offices on Dawson Street in Dublin to highlight the plight of the war-weary refugees and the shameful response of the EU to the crisis. The IAWM statement claimed that the UN has noted that the overwhelming majority of people are refugees fleeing from wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and beyond. All of these countries have been devastated by wars in which western imperial powers have played a central role. The Irish Government has supported these wars by facilitating the US Military at Shannon Airport and through involvement in the NATO-led ISAF in Afghanistan, the statement noted. Memet Uludag, IAWM Steering Committee member, speaking from the Greek island of Kos said:
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