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Robbie Sinnott
mp3 30 min vocal soundscape, 128kbps
On March 19th 2005, hundreds of people took to the streets of Dublin to protest against Ireland's complicity in the illegal war on Iraq.
Removed from sloganeering leaders of Parties, were the Hammer Bloc, a selection of Irish anarchists who specifically wanted to show solidarity with the PitStop Ploughshares who, thi Tuesday (Nov 2, 2005) begin the second week of their second trial for damaging a US navy plane at Shannon airport in February 3rd, 2003.
The diverse and inclusive group sported green white and orange inflatable hammers (the colours of the Irish flag), such as one an inflatable hammer used by one of the PitStop 5.
Shannon Airport is the main transit stop-off point for US military coming to and from Iraq, and is also used in 'extraordinary renditions' - the kidnapping of people for the purposes of torture.
Good craic was had, as is always the case with anything to do with the Dublin Catholic Worker.
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