Friday 3rd & Saturday 4th September 2010

The Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, Ireland

Admission €10 for conference or €5 per session.

To register send a mail to: conference@irishantiwar.org

Session 1:- Friday 3rd September 7.30pm

Registration: 7.00 - 7.30pm
Opening Address: Jimmy Kelly, Irish Regional Secretary, Unite the Union
IRELAND AND THE UNITED NATIONS
Speakers:

Tuesday March 2nd 2010 8.00pm Forster Court Hotel, Forster St. Galway.

The fight by Irish anti-war activists against the arms trade and Ireland's involvement in the war machine.

"Not in Our Name"

Documentary Screening address by Goretti Horgan of Women Against Raytheon.

In 2006 Derry anti-war activists occupied the Raytheon Arms Manufacturing company in Derry city as a protest against its supplying parts to the Israeli Defence Forces. At the time the Israelis were involved in a full-scale bombing of Lebanon which flattened the country and killed over one and half thousand people.

The protestors, known as the "Raytheon 9", were brought to trial by the company.

Against all the odds, the court actually admitted that the Raytheon company was aiding and abetting war crimes. The protesters were acquitted and in January this year the company decided to pull out of Derry, showing just how effective targeted protests can be.

Speaker: Liam Cummins

Venue: Ashling Hotel, Dublin (beside Heuston Station)

Date: 14:30 22nd November 2009

{Note from the author: My original heading to this article was apparently deemed to be sexist and was replaced by the above, which is not my creation.}

"Ireland will become the new U.S. border when Universal Aviation opens its unique pre-clearance facility for U.S. immigration, customs and agriculture at Shannon Airport. The Shannon site will be the only one in Europe with full U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) approval and it will be available for private flyers in September." - So crows the popular publication, Aviation Week. One reads it in the context of our neutrality, and one weeps, remembering how this operation is in bed with the now-permanent US military presence at Shannon.

Britian's most senior policeman John Stevens has reported (after 15 years and three attempts) into collusion between the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. The report concludes that that British army intelligence and police officers in Northern Ireland actively and deliberately colluded with loyalist paramilitaries to murder Catholics in the late 1980s. The report also says its inquiries were obstructed by police and army officers, and vital evidence was concealed and destroyed.

This report, severe as it is, is widely seen as a coverup in Northern Ireland and victims' families have demanded a full judical inquiry into the affair.

To paraphrase this in today's terms the British Government used terrorist murder gangs to murder opponents of the regime. Does this not make Britian a terrorist rogue state?

Commentary on The Draft Assurances re Lisbon Concerning Security and Defence