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Craig Dolby from the English Football Club Tottenham Hotspur just had his pitstop. Superleague Formula at circuit Magny-Cours in France.
GARDAI RETURN HAMMERS TO ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST
A collection of hammers and other objects that were used to disable a US Navy plane in 2003 were turned over by Shannon gardai to one of the activists who carried out the action.
Veteran anti-war direct actionist Ciaron O'Reilly will hold a press conference outside Shannon Airport 12 noon Wednesday July 24th., following the return of hammers used to disable a U.S. Navy war plane at the airport in Feb 03. He will bring the hammers and other reurned property to the press conference.
O'Reilly was one of the Pitstop Ploughshares group, who along with Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon and Damien Moran were charged with $US 2.5 million criminal damage to a U.S. Navy war plane at Shannon in the build up to the invasion of Iraq. The group were intially imprisoned on remand in Limerick before being put on trial three times at Dublin's Four Courts. They were eventually acquitted unanimously by a jury at the Four Courts in August 2006. The groups action is the subject of Dublin journalist's Harry Browne's forthcoming book "Hammered by the Irish - How the Pitstop Plougshares Disarmed a U.S. War Plane with Ireland's Blessing!".
O'Reilly is a veteran of three such Ploughshares actions in as many countries. Ploughshares actions take their inspiration from the Old Testament prophecy of Isaiah "to beat swords into ploughshares" and are attempts to disable military equipment employing hammers in an acts of nonviolent direct action. The movement began in 1980 by the Berrigan brothers and other radical Catholic pacifists. Some ploughshares activists have received sentences ranging up to 18 years imprisonment for such actions, while others have been acquitted by juries. Although perceived as a small radical component of the broader peace movement, ploughshares communities have attracted such notable counsel as former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, present Solicitor General for England and Wales Vera Baird, celebrated human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce and in Ireland they were represented by Hugh Hartnet, Michael Higgins and Brendan Nix.
Two of the hammers returned by the Gardai had been used by O'Reilly and the ANZUS Ploughshares group on New Year's Day 1991 when they disabled a B-52 Bomber after breaking into an upstate New York U.S. Air Force Base on the eve of the first Gulf War. O'Reilly served 13 months in a variety of U.S. prisons for that action. One of the hammers being returned has been used on five occasions by various ploughshares groups in the United States, England and Ireland racking up $US 7 million in damage to military equipment destined to contribute to wars in Iraq, East Timor and nuclear weapon systems.
O'Reilly stated, "Since we acted five years ago at Shannon Airport over 1 million Iraqi's have been killed in the war we tried to stop. Also 4,000 young Americans soldiers, most who passed through this small departure lounge at Shannon Airport have also been killed and returned home in body bags. Another 20,000 U.S. soldiers, most who passed through Shannon, have returned home with amputations, loss of mind and other injuries from which they will never recover. In the past five years this small civilian airport on the west coast of Ireland has become the central U.S. military hub to refuel its troop movements to the war zone.
Pitstop 1 of 3 Fridaymorning, I just HAD to stop.....
This is Schuytgraaf, it costed me a pair of muddy shoes to shoot this one :)
Have a great weekend my friends!
Man, those dragonfly can move. This one stayed just long enough for me to get close and take a few shots before it moved away again. First time trying my luck with insects and taken in my new garden, which if proving to be a source of inspiration and photo opportunities, which is a good thing in light of our move.
Should really be viewed in the light box
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Nice little jernt in the heart of Dushanbe, except the wifi never seems to work. I wonder if Rieffer Madness and Lola ever hung out here?
A AscentBRAND criou todo o material de prospecção para a Rede PitStop: convites, folders e um material explicativo com histórico, funcionamento e objetivos da Rede.
A PitStop é uma Rede de Serviços Automotivos, estruturada no mercado brasileiro por iniciativa do Grupo Comolatti. A PitStop está em expansão para todo o Brasil e caminha para alcançar 150 estabelecimentos credenciados.
Quer saber mais sobre a rede PitStop? Acesse www.pitstop.com.br
Ficha Técnica
Agência: AscentBRAND
Cliente: Grupo Comolatti
Campanha: Material de adensamento
Direção de Criação: Valdirlei Soares - Val
Criação: Camila Ranelli
Fotografia: Tandi Verissimo e Banco de Imagens
Atendimento: Valdirlei Soares - Val
Produção Gráfica: Ricardo Klimavicius
Redação e Revisão: Fernando Taboada
Aprovação: Humberto Branco
Replete with train 92212 takes water in Ropley yard, not a sight you see every day!
Taken on a Mad Hants photo charter.
A stop in Starbucks for probably my one and only Pumpkin Spice Latte this year. Went into town with Eilidh in the sling so that we could partake on Markies Pizza and Prosecco deal. For £10 you get a bottle of prosecco and posh pizza. Would have bought 2 lots but as we were getting the bus and I had other items to buy, 1 set will have to do (unless I send the husband for more after he finishes work) though it is a good deal as the prosecco is £12 if bought by itself... so £2 back and free pizza, that's a winner in my eyes.
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Tristan Gommendy in the pitstop while Duncan Tappy drives by in the pitlane. Superleague Formula at circuit Zolder.
Seeing this BMW E30 next to a Citroen 2CV at the gas station made me feel like being back in the 80's. Then I noticed the price tags and the dream was over...