Book: Hammered By The Irish: How The Pitstop Ploughshares Disabled A U.s. War-plane -with Ireland's Blessing On a damp night in February 2003, as the United States 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 US 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 antiwar 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.
Details of Book: Hammered By The Irish: How The Pitstop Ploughshares Disabled A U.s. War-plane -with Ireland's Blessing Book: Hammered By The Irish: How The Pitstop Ploughshares Disabled A U.s. War-plane -with Ireland's Blessing
Author: Harry Browne, Daniel Berrigan
ISBN: 1904859909
ISBN-13: 9781904859901
, 978-1904859901
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2008/12/15
Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Number of Pages: 180
Language: English