Update: American Catholic Worker 24 hour Vigil/Fast, US Embassy, Dublin

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday March 27, 2003 14:02 by Damien Moran - Dublin Catholic Worker 'Pit-Stop Ploughshares' dbamoran at hotmail dot com 087 9638398

Update on American Catholic Worker Vigil/Fast, US Embassy, Dublin

Nuin arrived at the Embassy this morning just before 8am. She has been joined in her fast and vigil by two other benign ladies.
A shrine for the victims of U.S. colonialism was erected, with a special place for the beautiful people of Iraq currently being slaughtered by the Bush Admin.

People are invited to sign a petition calling for the U.S. to disarm their Weapons of Mass Destruction and end their illegal/immoral belligerence in Iraq, etc.

She has been receiving some harrassment from the authorities to leave, but her willpower is beyond petty tactics which attempt to curtail freedom of expression.

Caoimhe Butterly and other activists from Limerick are expected to join Nuin during the day and continue the vigil through until Friday morning @ 8am.

Please show your solidarity by giving Nuin a ring(0879638398) or join in/call over to the fast/vigil at the U.S. Embassy, Ballsbridge, Dublin.

When asked about the reasons for initiating the vigil/fast, Nuin replied:

'We are gathering in front of the US Embassy in a vigil of solidarity with Iraqi people injured and killed by American Weapons of Mass Destruction. We also express solidarity with three Dominican Sisters - Carol Gilbert, Ardeth Platte, and Jackie Hudson who are facing 30 years imprisonment for disarming a Colarado Nuclear facility. The three sisters saw through the hypocrisy of a nation intent on disarming Iraq while ignoring its' own Weapons of Mass Destruction.'

'We have come to:

* express grief and repentance for U.S. colonial wars (past and present), including the current attack on Iraq and its resulting US Military presence in Ireland.

* Ask the U.S. to disarm it's Weapons of Mass Destruction while listening to the millions of people saying 'NO' to war.

*Celebrate Resistance to the U.S. colonial war machine.'

Nuin Dunlop (31) is an American of Irish-Scots-East Band Cherokee-Dutch descent. She has been working for several years in community service; in the Catholic Worker (www.catholicworker.org), hospital chaplaincy, and with the marginalised. She is a Catholic anarchist.

Her activism stems from the belief that the Creator breaths life through everyone: War is the most serious violation of life. Born in the nation with more weapons of mass destruction than any other, she is moved to respond to the current US-led assaults on life.

Nuin is a member of the Dublin Catholic Worker 'Pit-Stop Ploughshares 5' (www.geocities.com/pwdyson/pitstop.html) that disarmed a US Navy plane at 'Shannon Warport' on February 3rd, 2003. She consented to bail at Limerick prison on Friday, March 21st after a 46 day prison witness against the war.

Karen Fallon from Scotland continues to resist the war from Limerick Prison with consent to bail.
Please write to her, c/o Limerick Prison, Mulgrave St., Limerick City.