Events
Caoimhe Butterly Eye Witness From Palestinian Refugee Camps In Lebanon
An eye witness account of life in Lebanon in the aftermath of Israel’s attack, and the current plight of Palestinian Refugees.
Caoimhe Butterly will be speaking around the country on the following dates:
Monday Dec 3rd: 8.00 pm Glasshouse Hotel, Hyde Bridge, Sligo (Connlly Forum and IPSC)
Tuesday Dec 4th - 7.30 Connolly Books in Dublin (AWI, IPSC and IAWM)
Wednesday Dec 5th - 13:00 - 14:00 UCC room G7 in the Kane building.
Evening : evening Clonakilty [venue tbc]
Thursday Dec 6th – Limerick UL
Friday Dec 7th – Galway TOWN HALL THEATRE STUDIO, GALWAY CITY 7.30pm Organised by GAAW
Saturday Dec 8th – Derry
Tuesday Dec 11th - Belfast Lecture Hall 1, St. Marys University College, Falls Road, Belfast. 7pm - 9pm meeting organised by IPSC and IAWM
Wednesday Dec 12th - Amnesty organise meting in their Dublin Fleet Str Cafe 7.30
Thursday Dec 13th - Cork 8pm, Victoria Hotel, Patrick Street
Caoimhe Butterly Eye Witness From Palestinian Refugee Camps In Lebanon
An eye witness account of life in Lebanon in the aftermath of Israel’s attack, and the current plight of Palestinian Refugees.
Caoimhe Butterly will be speaking around the country on the following dates:
Monday Dec 3rd: 8.00 pm Glasshouse Hotel, Hyde Bridge, Sligo (Connlly Forum and IPSC)
Tuesday Dec 4th - 7.30 Connolly Books in Dublin (AWI, IPSC and IAWM)
Wednesday Dec 5th - 13:00 - 14:00 UCC room G7 in the Kane building.
Evening : evening Clonakilty [venue tbc]
Thursday Dec 6th – Limerick UL
Friday Dec 7th – Galway TOWN HALL THEATRE STUDIO, GALWAY CITY 7.30pm Organised by GAAW
Saturday Dec 8th – Derry
Tuesday Dec 11th - Belfast Lecture Hall 1, St. Marys University College, Falls Road, Belfast. 7pm - 9pm meeting organised by IPSC and IAWM
Wednesday Dec 12th - Amnesty organise meting in their Dublin Fleet Str Cafe 7.30
Thursday Dec 13th - Cork 8pm, Victoria Hotel, Patrick Street
GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR is to make an official presentation to Galway City Council s Corporate Policy Group on the 10th December outlining why we are against the Salthill Air Show receiving Council funding as long as warplanes, helicopter gunships and active combatants are part of the event.
The Galway peace group s spokesperson Niall Farrell says GAAW is looking forward to the opportunity to speak face to face with the councillors: We want to have a genuine engagement with the city councillors and explain how the presence of warplanes and the fighter pilots who fly them sanitises and glorifies war. We know there are strong views on both sides, but the only way this issue can be resolved is by sitting down and calmly discussing it. It is clear that there is growing disenchantment from all walks of life in the city and county with the growing militaristic nature of the air show.
Combined with that there are the serious safety concerns, plus the negative environmental impact of the show with its huge carbon emissions and dreadful noise pollution. A solution needs to be found.
GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR is to make an official presentation to Galway City Council s Corporate Policy Group on the 10th December outlining why we are against the Salthill Air Show receiving Council funding as long as warplanes, helicopter gunships and active combatants are part of the event.
The Galway peace group s spokesperson Niall Farrell says GAAW is looking forward to the opportunity to speak face to face with the councillors: We want to have a genuine engagement with the city councillors and explain how the presence of warplanes and the fighter pilots who fly them sanitises and glorifies war. We know there are strong views on both sides, but the only way this issue can be resolved is by sitting down and calmly discussing it. It is clear that there is growing disenchantment from all walks of life in the city and county with the growing militaristic nature of the air show.
Combined with that there are the serious safety concerns, plus the negative environmental impact of the show with its huge carbon emissions and dreadful noise pollution. A solution needs to be found.
Caoimhe Butterly Eye Witness From Palestinian Refugee Camps In Lebanon
An eye witness account of life in Lebanon in the aftermath of Israel’s attack, and the current plight of Palestinian Refugees.
Caoimhe Butterly will be speaking around the country on the following dates:
Monday Dec 3rd: 8.00 pm Glasshouse Hotel, Hyde Bridge, Sligo (Connlly Forum and IPSC)
Tuesday Dec 4th - 7.30 Connolly Books in Dublin (AWI, IPSC and IAWM)
Wednesday Dec 5th - 13:00 - 14:00 UCC room G7 in the Kane building.
Evening : evening Clonakilty [venue tbc]
Thursday Dec 6th – Limerick UL
Friday Dec 7th – Galway TOWN HALL THEATRE STUDIO, GALWAY CITY 7.30pm Organised by GAAW
Saturday Dec 8th – Derry
Tuesday Dec 11th - Belfast Lecture Hall 1, St. Marys University College, Falls Road, Belfast. 7pm - 9pm meeting organised by IPSC and IAWM
Wednesday Dec 12th - Amnesty organise meting in their Dublin Fleet Str Cafe 7.30
Thursday Dec 13th - Cork 8pm, Victoria Hotel, Patrick Street
ISRAEL/OPT CAFE NIGHT - Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Join us for some food and drinks hosted by Amnesty's Israel/Occupied
Palestinian Territories Group.
The evening will include a discussion with Caoimhe Butterly. Caoimhe
is currently working with NGO's in Palestinian refugee camps in
Lebanon. In particular, Caoimhe will be discussing the humanitarian
situation in the Nahr al-Bared camp, after a conflict between
militants and the Lebanese army in the camp earlier this year.
End-of-year, end-the-war social
With music from Jim Walker & Robert Peoples, plus The Bluebelles
DJ’s Mary Healy and Danny McGeady
Plus food and DAWC Xmas raffle (first prize overnight stay for 2 in Dublin with spending money)
8pm Wednesday 13 December, upstairs @ Sandinos
Caoimhe Butterly Eye Witness From Palestinian Refugee Camps In Lebanon
An eye witness account of life in Lebanon in the aftermath of Israel’s attack, and the current plight of Palestinian Refugees.
Caoimhe Butterly will be speaking around the country on the following dates:
Monday Dec 3rd: 8.00 pm Glasshouse Hotel, Hyde Bridge, Sligo (Connlly Forum and IPSC)
Tuesday Dec 4th - 7.30 Connolly Books in Dublin (AWI, IPSC and IAWM)
Wednesday Dec 5th - 13:00 - 14:00 UCC room G7 in the Kane building.
Evening : evening Clonakilty [venue tbc]
Thursday Dec 6th – Limerick UL
Friday Dec 7th – Galway TOWN HALL THEATRE STUDIO, GALWAY CITY 7.30pm Organised by GAAW
Saturday Dec 8th – Derry
Tuesday Dec 11th - Belfast Lecture Hall 1, St. Marys University College, Falls Road, Belfast. 7pm - 9pm meeting organised by IPSC and IAWM
Wednesday Dec 12th - Amnesty organise meting in their Dublin Fleet Str Cafe 7.30
Thursday Dec 13th - Cork 8pm, Victoria Hotel, Patrick Street
Benefit night for Raytheon 9 Friday 14th December 8pm
Red Parrot, Dorset Street
Admission: 10 euro waged, contribution for unwaged
Music, fun and raffles
The Raytheon 9 - activists from Derry's Anti War Movement are facing trial for occupying the Raytheon Derry Plant office during Israel's assault on Lebanon last year. The group took the decision after confirming that parts of the missiles used in the killing of civilians in Lebanon were manufactured at the Derry plant. The trial is a chance to put those who profit from war in the dock. But the group need your money and support
Raytheon, are one of the world's major arms producers, producing high-tech weapons including missiles for the US and Israeli military.
The Raytheon plant in Derry is involved in producing components for many of the weapons used by the Israeli military in conflicts such as that in Lebanon.
A recent report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) accuses Israel of "war crimes" in the conduct of its military operations during the assault on Lebanon – an assault which led to the deaths of over one thousand Lebanese civilians. The report lays the blame for overwhelming majority of civilian deaths and injuries squarely at door of Israel and a military policy which it says was operating deliberately in violation of the laws of war and International human rights law.
See full report at http://hrw.org/reports/2007/lebanon0907
And also http://www.raytheon9.org
"Solitary Prisoner" action
The 11th of January 2008 is the 6th anniversary of the opening of
Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
As part of Amnesty's ongoing effort to CLOSE GUANTANAMO we are
calling on activists to take part in our "Solitary Prisoner" action.
The Actions will be conducted around the country beginning Saturday,
5 January running until Thursday, 10 January.
Teams of two people will be placed randomly around the country, one
dressed in an orange jumpsuit with white mask and the case of an
individual detainee in laminate form on their back.
The second person will be standing separate to the Solitary Prisoner
with the Framework for Ending Illegal Detentions petition for people
to sign.
All that is required for this action are 2 people and a couple of
hours and will take place in your own community.
If you are interested in carrying out this action please contact, as
soon as possible, the Amnesty Campaigns Team on
activismassistant@amnesty.ie Or ring the office on (01) 863.8300 and
ask for Kieran Clifford.
"Solitary Prisoner" action
The 11th of January 2008 is the 6th anniversary of the opening of
Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
As part of Amnesty's ongoing effort to CLOSE GUANTANAMO we are
calling on activists to take part in our "Solitary Prisoner" action.
The Actions will be conducted around the country beginning Saturday,
5 January running until Thursday, 10 January.
Teams of two people will be placed randomly around the country, one
dressed in an orange jumpsuit with white mask and the case of an
individual detainee in laminate form on their back.
The second person will be standing separate to the Solitary Prisoner
with the Framework for Ending Illegal Detentions petition for people
to sign.
All that is required for this action are 2 people and a couple of
hours and will take place in your own community.
If you are interested in carrying out this action please contact, as
soon as possible, the Amnesty Campaigns Team on
activismassistant@amnesty.ie Or ring the office on (01) 863.8300 and
ask for Kieran Clifford.
