Peace Camp at Shannon Airport Starting at 6:00am on Saturday 12th July
We're delighted to support the activists who are holding a 36 hour peace camp and vigil at Shannon Airport Roundabout from 6:00 a.m. on Saturday 12th July until 6:00 p.m. on Sunday 13th July.
Their statement about the camp is as follows:
For the past year, every Sunday, from 9am until 12 noon, this group of peace activists have stood on the Shannon Airport Peace Roundabout to call on the Irish government to respect Irish neutrality and to stop allowing the U.S. military use our civilian Shannon Airport as a transit hub for U.S. military personnel and weapons transfer. Shannon Airport has, in the past, supported the US war on Iraq; a war based on the false claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. Ireland has supported the U.S. military use of ‘extraordinary rendition’ (state-sponsored abduction, or, kidnapping) via Shannon Airport.