Decommissioners' dinner at Kebele

bristol | peace | event notice Friday March 13, 2009 20:57 by nickleberry jandamarra at riseup dot net

Kebele's usual vegan evening loveliness will include a talk and film in solidarity with the EDO decommissioners. Dinner is served at 6:30pm as usual; the talk and film get going at 7:30pm.

Users of this site will be familiar with the inspiring resistance of the EDO decommissioners. Kebele is hosting an awareness-raising evening in solidarity with the decommissioners. This solidarity is particularly important given that one of the decommissioners remains in jail in Bristol:
http://decommisioners.wordpress.com/

In support of the decommissioners, Ciaron O'Reilly will relate his experiences resisting war and violence around the world. Ciaron is a long-time war-resister and anarchist. During the 1991 Gulf War, O'Reilly was a member of the 'ANZUS Ploughshares' group which attacked a B-52 Bomber which was on 20-minute scramble alert, at Griffiss AFB near Utica, New York. Their actions put the aircraft out of action for the next two months at the height of the US bombing campaign in Iraq. Together with the other members of the group, he was arrested and sentenced to 13 months in the US penal system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaron_O%27Reilly

On July 5, 2006 O'Reilly went to trial at Ireland's Four Courts for disarming a US navy warplane at the civilian Shannon Airport, in the early hours of February 3 2003. This group action became known as the Pitstop Ploughshares. O'Reilly and four others, Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon and Damien Moran were acquitted by an Irish jury on on 25 July 2006.

The film Route Irish tells the story of the resistance to Irish involvement in the Iraq War. The film will show from 8pm.
http://www.indymedia.ie/route_irish_documentary