ST PATRICK'S DAY PARADE: If you wish to volunteer for prop-making
workshops on Monday & Tuesday (15th and 16th), or to join the GAAW contingent on the parade, please e-mail johnliamsheain@eircom.net
Start Date: 2004-03-16 19:00:00-05
End Date: 2004-03-17 06:59:59-05
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Created By: Orla Ni Chomhrai
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The Snake Bush Pursued by St P through Galway Streets by Niall Farrell - Galway Alliance Against War In the St PatrickÂs Day Parade in Galway today, the Patron Saint banished the war criminal Bush from IrelandÂs shores. That was the theme of the Galway Alliance Against War float. A snake with George BushÂs head was pursued through the streets of Galway by a peace loving St Patrick. And the crowd applauded in support of St Paddy. Appropriately, in its statement for St PatrickÂs Day the Galway peace group called Âon St Patrick to return in June and banish from our shores the evil snake George W. Bush and all his deadly vipers that land daily in Shannon en route to kill in occupied Iraq. STATEMENT FROM THE GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR FOR THE SAINT PATRICKÂS DAY PARADE IN GALWAY  MARCH 17TH 2004 Last year at the St PatrickÂs Day Parade the Galway Alliance Against War predicted that thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians would be killed in the event of a needless US & British invasion of Iraq. We have unfortunately been proven right. Last year, we predicted that these people would be forgotten by the warmongers, written off as expendable  Âcollateral damageÂ. Again we have been proven right: There has been no day of mourning or even a minute silence for these poor victims of US and British state terrorism. Last year, we predicted that this US-led war would be about oil. Again we have been proven right: The natural oil wealth of Iraq has been greedily divided among the wealthy supporters of George Bush and Dick Cheney. This year, we call on St Patrick to return in June and banish from our shores the evil snake George W. Bush and all his deadly vipers that land daily in Shannon en route to kill in occupied Iraq. Like last St PatrickÂs Day the slogan of the Galway Alliance Against War remains both Irish and International: Give Peace A Chance  Tabhair Seans don tSÃocháin. add your comments COMMENTS show latest comments first  show comment titles only jump to comment 1 God Bless You Today by Susan McKeon Wednesday, Mar 17 2004, 6:02pm SMc1270236@msn.com As I sit here in New York feeling a bit sad watching our St. Patrick's Day Parade push militarism, and listening to WBAI's alternate programming of real Irish songs of struggle, I have come across this wonderful article. My husband of thirty years who died five years ago marched in front of the British Embassy in New York during the time of Thatcher and the hunger strikers, but he also fought for the grape workers under Cesar Chavez and civil rights movement with Martin Luther King. If he were alive now what would he think of the phony pumped up chauvinism that passes for Irish pride here in America. That is not to say that there are not many Irish Americans who are for peace and justice, but you never hear about them in the media. James Connolly would be proud of all of you because he knew that to be truly for Irish freedom is to be for the freedom for all. He fought WWI and the brutality against all soldiers in that Great War. You have warmed my 60 year old poet's heart. I hold you in my thoughts and as we struggle against the war here we know that you there and in Spain and everywhere are against this waste of precious human life.
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