Title: Hammered by the Irish : how the Pitstop Ploughshares disabled a U.S. warplane with Ireland's blessing /
Authors: Browne, Harry, 1963-
Publisher: CounterPunch ; AK Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003-2011 Protest movements Ireland.; Government property Vandalism Ireland.; Peace movements Ireland History; Catholic Worker Movement History; Guerre d'Irak (2003-2011) Mouvements contestataires Irlande.; Mouvements pacifistes Irlande; Catholic Worker Movement; Government property Vandalism; International relations; Peace movements; Protest movements; United States Foreign relations Ireland.; Ireland Foreign relations United States.; Ireland; United States
Abstract: "On a damp night in February 2003, as the U.S. prepared to invade Iraq, five Catholic Worker activists scrambled across runways and broke into a hangar at Shannon Airport. Swinging hammers and a pickaxe, they did more than $2.5 million damage to a U.S. Navy transport plane." "The five were hit with the full weight of the law, and were quickly condemned by the media and much of the anti-war movement. But three-and-a-half years later a Dublin jury decided they were innocent of any crime." "This is the story of how a civilian airport in the west of Ireland became a "Pitstop of Death," and how an act of conscience touched the hearts and minds of twelve jurors, making political and legal history, in an epic of popular resistance."--Jacket.