by Rose Rushe
SHANNONWATCH has issued notice of its latest vigil for peace, to take place at the Shannon Airport roundabout next Sunday 8 from 2pm to 3pm.
A statement from the pro-peace activists states: “As the US and NATO use the situation in Ukraine as an opportunity to raise their defence budgets, and Obama seeks to ramp up military capacity along Russia’s border, the warplanes continue to come through Shannon Airport”.
Shannonwatch criticises the Fine Gael / Labour government for “remaining silent about the role Shannon is expected to play in US / NATO plans – just as they and the previous government remained silent about its role in Iraq and Afghanistan”.
The group went on to cite a case last week in Ennis District Court that it claims showed how Gardai are targeting peace activists at Shannon, instead of investigating violations of national and international law by CIA and US military personnel passing through the airport.
“This highlights a grotesque imbalance in how the law is being used to facilitate global injustices”.
There is a public invitation to join on Sunday 8 next and each month, the “demands for an end to the State’s complicity in war and human rights abuse and the harassment of people who are highlighting it”.
