Talk Nation Radio: Barry Sweeney on Global Anti-War Conference Planned in Ireland
Channel: David Swanson
Date: 2019-08-26

Barry Sweeney is a member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. Barry is based in Ireland, but is often in Vietnam and Italy. His background is in education and environmentalism. He taught as a primary school teacher in Ireland for a number of years, before moving to Italy in 2009 to teach English. His love for environmental understanding led him to many progressive projects in Ireland, Italy, and Sweden. He became more and more involved in environmentalism in Ireland, and has now been teaching on a Permaculture Design Certificate course for 5 years. More recent work has seen him teaching on World BEYOND War’s War Abolition course for the last two years. Also, in 2017 and 2018 he organized peace symposia in Ireland, bringing together many of the peace/anti-war groups in Ireland. Barry is helping to plan NoWar2019:
https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2019
He discussed this petition to the Irish and U.S. governments:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/the-world-must-support-ireland-against-us-wars