Solidarity in London
Former U.S./Australian/Irish plowshares prisoner Ciaron O’Reilly gives it all he’s got (left) at the Australian High Commision on London’s Strand on the first day of Graeme Dunstan’s trial in Rockhampton, Australia on Monday.
One may have been the loneliest number until High Commission bureaucrat & security came to inspect a makeshift shrine to the Afghani dead thumbtacked to a nearby tree.
Ciaron went to introduce himself, but there was no need for such formalities – they knew who he was and failed to introduce themselves. They didn’t know Graeme Dunstan and enquired. They know who Graeme Dunstan is now. They answered in the affirmative that they had viewed the helicopter gunship ploughshares video from Talisman Sabre 2011.
They answered in the negative to the proposition “Pretty funny uh?”
Flyers were distributed to passersby, prayers said and gesticulatory insults exchanged with a passing busload of young Galatasaray SK fans Ciaron mistook as young Australians silently abusing him from behind the bus windows. As the Turkish football sign on the back of the bus betrayed their identity, Ciaron realised that they were indeed abusing the Australian High Commission building and were probably still pissed off over Gallipoli.
Solidarity from David Rovics with a new song
Solidarity around the world
After this solidarity video…
…photos from supporters around the world continue to arrive.
Arizona Jack Cohen Joppa, editor of The Nuclear Resister
Gil Landolt, Veterans for Peace, Des Moines
Frank Cordaro, long time Catholic Worker, plowshares activist, former & future anti-war prisoner
Tommy Schmidt, Des Moines Catholic Worker
Ben Griffin, Afghanistan/Iraq combat veteran, founder of Veterans for Peace in the U.K.
Michael Lyons, Navy medic, military resister who was jailed for refusing deployment to Afghanistan
John Shipton (Julian Assange’s father) and Father Dave
Rev. Simon Moyle, currently in Rockhampton supporting Graeme at the trial
Chris Cole and Virginia Moffat
Annie Morris, teacher
Evan Clarry and child
Danielle O’Brien, artist and Milo
Tom Francis, filmmaker
Brian O’Brien, nurse
Traditional Catholic devotion of Intercession to Mary as Our lady of perpetual help
Headlines you won’t see in mx
I can’t relax in Brisbane during the Graeme Dunstan trial