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Anti War Banshees Arrested at Shannon Airport

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category national | anti-war / imperialism | feature author Sunday October 31, 2004 13:35author by Dublin Catholic Workerauthor phone 087 9184552 Report this post to the editors

Spent Up To Four Hours Undetected Beside Runway Reciting Names of US and Iraqi Dead

From The Newswire: In the early hours of Halloween, October 31st, two peace activists dressed as banshees were arrested in the confines of Shannon Airport. Zelda Jeffers and Elaine O’Sullivan, of the pacifist Catholic Worker Movement, were discovered by airport security after constructing a shrine to the war dead near the runway. The two women, wearing Iraqi mourning dress, were discovered reading out the names of U.S. military and Iraqi dead.

Elaine O’Sullivan stated: “Many of the over one thousand U.S. military dead personnel killed in Iraq would have passed through Shannon Airport on the way to their deaths. We remember them and the Iraqi people they have killed. We name Shannon Airport as a place of death – a cog in the U.S. war machine carrying out an illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. We have come to Shannon on Halloween, the eve of ‘All Souls Day’ and the U.S. elections, to remember the dead and non-violently defend the living”.


UPDATE: VoiceMail & PhotoPhone Reports from a Runway Shrine for the Dead




Elaine & Zelda set up a Halloween shrine near the Shannon runway in a sometimes tearful reading of the names US/Coalition and Iraqi war dead....
Reading the Names of the Dead {MP3: 14mins/13megs}

Elaine & Zelda stumbling around in the dark bogs of Shannon Airport looking for 'Airport Security' desperately seeking arrest....
Trying to get arrested {MP3: 13mins/12megs}
- (photos and audio by Elaine and Zelda)

MP3: Full Audio Report {MP3: 28mins/26megs}

Also: Dublin's NewsTalk 106 Interviews Elaine {MP3: 8mins/7.5megs}

More comments and info....


Twenty-three march silently to Shannon Airport, October 31st, while listening to American Catholic Worker activist Carmen Trotta read names of US/Coalition and Iraqi dead...

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Anti War Banshees Arrested at Shannon Airport

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Press Release
October 31st, 2004
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Anti War Banshees Arrested at Shannon Airport


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