Hammered by the Irish
Subtitle: how the Pitstop Ploughshares disabled a U.S. warplane with Ireland's blessing
By: Harry Browne.
Publisher: CounterPunch; AK Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Petrolia, Calif; Oakland, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781904859901
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003- -- Protest movements -- Ireland; Government property -- Vandalism -- Ireland; Peace movements -- Ireland -- History -- 21st century; Catholic Worker Movement -- History -- 21st century; United States -- Foreign relations -- Ireland; Ireland -- Foreign relations -- United States
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes index.