Shannon
13/06/2010 - 14:00 13/06/2010 - 15:00 Regular second-Sunday-of-the-month vigil. Takes place at small roundabout just before entrance to airport, from 2 - 3pm on Sunday 13th June. Are arms being transported through Ireland to Israel for the types of massacre committed on the peaceful aid ship last week? Shannonwatch and the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign have called on the Minister for Transport to ensure that no arms are being supplied through Shannon or Irish airspace to Israel. They have also called on workers at the airport to support the Palestinian call for boycott, divertment and sanctions against Israel by refusing to service Israeli planes if they are permitted to land at the airport. Come along to Sunday's vigil to support these calls and to demand an end to the militarisation of Shannon airport. The vigil will also be a vigil of rememberance for the aid activists murdered by Israeli commandos. |
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In light of the recent deadly attack on a humanitarian aid convoy by Israeli commandos and the use of forged Irish passports by Israeli assassins to facilitate the murder a Palestinian man in Dubai, Shannonwatch calls on the airport authorities at Shannon to refuse landing permission to all Israeli flights as a matter of policy. It also calls on workers at the airport to head the call of the Irish Congress of Trade Union to support the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel by refusing to service any of these planes if they are permitted to land at the airport.
"We have logged a number of Israeli-registered airplanes at the airport over the last few years" said a Shannonwatch spokesperson. "These include aircraft operated by companies such as Noy Aviation and Arkia Israeli Airlines. Last November the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to the United States on an Arkia airplane which was refueled at Shannon. On that occasion a number of requests were made to Shannon Garda Station to have the plane searched and measures taken to determine if there were possible war criminals on board."
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27/05/2010 - 19:30 27/05/2010 - 22:00
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WYNNS Hotel - Lower Abbey Str. Dublin 27 May - 19:30
Shannonwatch Press Statement 14 May 2010 Following on from a decision by the U.S. military and their main troop carrier to re-route their traffic through different military bases and airports, it has been reported that Shannon Airport-based companies are temporarily laying-off staff. The Clare Champion reports today that a catering company, EFG Inflight, is making the temporary lay-offs because the troop carrier, Omni Air International, has diverted its business away from Shannon for the moment due to the volcanic ash cloud. “This clearly shows the unsustainability of the war industry as a business model for Shannon Airport.” said John Lannon of Shannonwatch. “We sympathise with anyone who has lost their income but this shouldn't become an argument between local workers and businesses on one side, and people who have been campaigning for an end to the U.S. military use of Shannon on the other. Everyone needs to work for sustainable and morally based business for Shannon Airport.” |
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11/04/2010 - 14:00 12/04/2010 - 00:57 Shannon Watch VigilOpposing war and human rights abuse at Shannon Airport Regular monthly vigil from 2 - 3pm, Sunday April 11th. Gather as usual just before the airport entrance (at the small roundabout). On St Patrick's Day, President Barrack Obama thanked the Irish Government for allowing US troops to stop off at Shannon Airport on their way to and from Iraq and Afghanistan. But the extent of the US military use of Shannon has gone largely unnoticed by the Irish people. Unless a family member happens to be travelling through in the early morning - and this is becoming a rare occurrance, given the downturn in normal business at the airport - most people would not know about the hundreds of US troops that pass through every day. A recent United Nations report said that Afghanistan’s weak central government is characterized by patronage, corruption and impunity that has hindered economic development and contributed to increased poverty. This, added to the daily suffering and death of innocent men, women and children, is what President Obama thanked us for supporting. |
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14/03/2010 - 14:00 14/03/2010 - 15:00 Shannon Watch Vigil: Remembering the start of the U.S. led invasion of Iraq on 20th March 2003.Assemble at roundabout before airport entrance
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06/03/2010 - 14:00 07/03/2010 - 14:00 There will be a Gathering of Women At Shannon Airport For the sixth year of the Women’s peace camp. This year the camp will be part of the international women's day celebrations and will be held from 2 pm on SAturday MARCH 6th, ending with an action-rally at 2pm Sunday March 7th. (Children & Men are Welcome. Sorry, No Dogs.) The camp will be set up adjacent to the small roundabout just before the airport entrance (gantry).
End Ireland’s complicity in the oppression of Afghan Women. |
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“Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” is a new documentary film, directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington, telling the story of Guantánamo (and including sections on extraordinary rendition and secret prisons) with a particular focus on how the Bush administration turned its back on domestic and international laws, how prisoners were rounded up in Afghanistan and Pakistan without adequate screening (and often for bounty payments), and why some of these men may have been in Afghanistan or Pakistan for reasons unconnected with militancy or terrorism (as missionaries or humanitarian aid workers, for example). The film is based around interviews with former prisoners (Moazzam Begg and, in his first major interview, Omar Deghayes, who was released in December 2007), lawyers for the prisoners (Clive Stafford Smith in the UK and Tom Wilner in the US), and journalist and author Andy Worthington, and also includes appearances from Guantánamo’s former Muslim chaplain James Yee, Shakeel Begg, a London-based Imam, and the British human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce. |
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