Margaretta’s principled and determined opposition
is drawing public attention around the world to the Irish government’s
collaboration with the US war machine. Her
imprisonment continues to be very high profile in the
media in Ireland with feature articles in newspapers - see Irish Times - and many
people expressing shock and outrage about it. The Ministry of Justice maintains
that there are no plans to release her early on compassionate grounds or change
the bond she was asked to sign.
Please join the demand for Margaretta’s release by any of the following:
· Add your signature and/or
organisation, endorsing the GWS statement below. Please send back to this
email address and we will add to the list to be handed in to the Irish embassy
in London at the demonstration in support of Margaretta on Thursday.
· And/or write your own
statement in support, sending us a copy.
· Circulate the statement/s
to your networks and put on your blogs, website, Facebooks, tweets, etc...
· Write to Irish Minister
for Defence Alan Shatter demanding the government release Margaretta - alan.shatter@oir.ie
· Send support cards to
Margaretta: c/o Limerick Jail, Limerick City,
Ireland.
· There will be a regular
picket outside Limerick prison on Fridays at 5-6 pm. See below for LINKS to
coverage of protest in Ireland.
Invest in caring not
killing!
Kay and Sian
(Orange Gate
1983-84)
Statement to the Press and the
PublicWe are
outraged to learn that our dear sister and colleague Margaretta D’Arcy has been jailed – and for three months! –
for protesting the use of the civilian airport at
Shannon for US wars. And we are deeply worried about her health and well-being
as a cancer patient. One of the many public services Ms D’Arcy has performed is
to protest the Irish government’s many years of complicity in US war crimes and
its destruction of Irish neutrality. She has been dedicated to highlighting
that the most devastating impact of war is on women and our children, both
directly from the bombs that rain down on us, and by paying with our poverty for
the horrendous weapons of massive destruction that surround us all.
Ms D’Arcy is a veteran of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, which opposed the US
military placing cruise missiles on common land in England, and won – the camp
is no longer a military base. To dissent from a perspective of permanent war
and austerity, and demand the protection of life and the planet, is increasingly
labelled subversive and even criminal behaviour. While war criminals are
allowed to pass through Irish airports and financial criminals go unpunished,
the Irish State in thrall to the US, UK, EU and IMF Masters of War has imprisoned a pensioner who has dedicated herself to
highlighting and preventing war crimes.
An attack on courageous and
principled Margaretta D’Arcy is an attack on us
all.
We demand the immediate release of
Margaretta D’Arcy.
Invest in caring not
killing
Selma James
on behalf of Global Women’s Strike
Maggie Ronayne
on behalf of Global
Women’s Strike, Ireland
FREE SHANNON AIRPORT
FROM THE US MILITARY!
NOT MARGARETTA D’ARCY!
Write to Government TDs and
to Minister Shatter: alan.shatter@oir.ie
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