Title: Hammered by the Irish
Subtitle: how the Pitstop Ploughshares disabled a U.S. warplane with Ireland's blessing
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.
Subjects: Foreign relations, History, Protest movements, Peace movements, Catholic Worker Movement, Government property, Vandalism, Iraq War, 2003-, Iraq war, 2003-2011, Public opinion, ireland, Guerre d'Irak (2003-....), Mouvements contestataires, Mouvements pacifistes, International relations, Iraq War (2003-2011) fast, Guerre d'Irak (2003-2011), Iraq War (2003-2011) fast (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01802311
Places: Ireland, United States
Time periods: 21st century