[grc] [Amarcwinreps] Fwd: Release Margaretta D'Arcy!

Sat Oct 18 20:45:01 PDT 2014

Dear all, I am only now seeing the email requesting me to draft the
statement about releasing Margaretta D'Arcy.  My apologies, I was in a very
stressful personal situation at the time and I did not manage to see all my
emails.  WINGS did get a program about Margaretta's sentencing on the air,
at least.  Did any statement go out from AMARC WIN?  Has anyone heard if
Margaretta is still in jail?  If we have a statement, I could carry it with
me to the Beijing + 20 prepcom and try for further endorsements from media
women there.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Secretariat AMARC <secretariat at si.amarc.org
> wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
> It will be my pleasure to do the translation to both Spanish and French,
> and Maru would just need then to review my translation to Spanish.
>
> Thanks a lot everyone for your kind follow-up, and thanks Frieda to have
> forwarded this info to AMARC WIN reps.
>
> Warmest regards,
>
> Valérie
>
> Le 2014-01-28 16:21, Bianca a écrit :
>
> Dear Frieda
> Dear Maru
> I received the news yesterday about her brave action and the imprisonment
> that she is facing.
> I fully agree, that AMARC-WIN should do a statment.
> Frieda would you like to draft something? May by Maru and Valerie can help
> in translating into French and Spanish.
> That would be great.
>
> Warmest
> Bianca
>
>
> On 28.01.14 19:39, Maru Chávez wrote:
>
> Dear Frieda, thank you for sending this action.  I remenber Margareta very
> well at AMARC´s genenral asambly in Jordan and then as WIN representatives
> for Europe. I think that AMARC should do a statement.
>
> Regards,
> Maru
>
>
> El 21/01/2014 09:50 p.m., Frieda Werden escribió:
>
> Margaretta, producer of Radio Pirate Woman in Galway, Ireland, is a
> longtime member of AMARC and contributor to WINGS.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Global Women's Strike/Phila <philly at globalwomenstrike.net>
> Date: Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:08 PM
> Subject: Release Margaretta D'Arcy!
> To: wings at wings.org
>
>
>
> *URGENT ACTION ALERT…. FREE IRISH ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST…*
>
> 79 year old Margaretta D’Arcy has been jailed for protesting the use of
> the Shannon civilian airport in Ireland for US wars.  We in the US have a
> responsibility to protest at the jailing of those opposing war crimes made
> in the USA!
>
> *Please see below for what you can do to demand her release.*  Also:
>
> ** Kay & Sian, veterans of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp with Ms
> Darcy, invite support for her;
>
> **Statement from Global Women’s Strike including GWS Ireland demands her
> release;
>
> **Endorsements of this Statement are pouring in, including from Birgitta
> Jonsdottir, Member of Parliament, Iceland.
>
>    Dear friends,
>
> Please find below a statement from Global Women’s Strike demanding that
> our dear friend and colleague Margaretta D’Arcy, be released.  She has been
> jailed for three months in Ireland, for protesting the use of Shannon’s
> civilian airport for US wars.  She is only allowed one phone call a day and
> two half-hour visits a week of no more than three adults.
>
> Many people internationally are shocked and furious that Margaretta has
> been jailed and are demanding her immediate release!
>
> We first met Margaretta at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp outside the
> US Air Force nuclear weapons base in Berkshire UK, where we lived during
> 1983/84.  Margaretta stayed there in the ’80s and ’90s, living outside for
> weeks at a time, helping maintain the camp’s presence and anti-war
> activities at Yellow (Main) Gate. Yellow Gate women fought and eventually
> won the fantastic legal victory that the base was illegal and the Common
> was restored to the people.
>
> Invest in caring not killing!
>
> Kay and Sian
> (Orange Gate 1983-84)
>
>
> *Statement to the Press and the Public*
>
> We are outraged to learn that our dear sister and colleague Margaretta
> D’Arcy has been jailed – and for three months! – for protesting the use
> of the civilian airport at Shannon for US wars.  And we are deeply worried
> about her health and well-being as a cancer patient.  One of the many
> public services Ms D’Arcy has performed is to protest the Irish
> government’s many years of complicity in US war crimes and its destruction
> of Irish neutrality.  She has been dedicated to highlighting that the most
> devastating impact of war is on women and our children, both directly from
> the bombs that rain down on us, and by paying with our poverty for the
> horrendous weapons of massive destruction that surround us all.
>
> Ms D’Arcy is a veteran of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, which
> opposed the US military placing cruise missiles on common land in England,
> and won – the camp is no longer a military base.  To dissent from a
> perspective of permanent war and austerity, and demand the protection of
> life and the planet, is increasingly labeled subversive and even criminal
> behavior.  While war criminals are allowed to pass through Irish airports
> and financial criminals go unpunished, the Irish State in thrall to the US,
> UK, EU and IMF Masters of War has imprisoned a pensioner who has
> dedicated herself to highlighting and preventing war crimes.
>
> *An attack on courageous and principled Margaretta D’Arcy is an attack on
> us all.*
>
> *We demand the immediate release of Margaretta D’Arcy.*
>
> Selma James
> on behalf of Global Women’s Strike
>
> Maggie Ronayne
> on behalf of Global Women’s Strike, Ireland
>
> *Please join the demand for Margaretta’s release by any of the following:*
>
> ·         *Add your signature and/or organization, endorsing the GWS
> statement below.*   Please send back to gws at globalwomenstrike.net and we
> will add to the final list to be handed in to the Irish embassy in London
> at the demonstration in support of Margaretta on Wednesday.
> https://www.facebook.com/events/655038224534808/
>
> ·         *And/or write your own statement in support, sending us a copy*.
>
> ·         *Circulate the statement/s to your networks and put on your
> blogs, website, Facebooks, tweets, etc...*
>
> ·          *Write to Irish Minister for Defense Alan Shatter demanding
> the government release Margaretta - *alan.shatter at oir.ie
>
> ·         *Send support cards to Margaretta: c/o Limerick Jail, Limerick
> City, Ireland. *
>
> ·          *There will be a regular picket outside Limerick prison on
> Fridays at 5-6 pm.  See below for LINKS to coverage of protest in Ireland.*
>
> The Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian>, Monday 20 January
> 2014 21.00 GMT
>
> My mother, the anti-war activist and writer Margaretta D'Arcy, is serving
> a three-month sentence in Limerick prison for trying to stop the violation
> of Irish neutrality by US military planes, which stop over at Shannon
> airport on the way to and from the war in Afghanistan. She took peaceful
> direct action to stop crime being committed by lying down on the runway of
> the airport. Margaretta, the widow of playwright John Arden, is 79 and
> undergoing treatment for cancer. Imprisoning her for an act of conscience
> is inhumane. I call upon the Irish government to release her immediately
> and for the British government to use its influence to secure her release.
> To keep her spirits up while she remains in prison, I urge readers to send
> cards c/o Limerick Prison, Mulgrave Street, Limerick, Ireland.
> *Jake Arden*
>
>
> *London * * * * * **
>
> *I am based in Iceland, but I fully support you and show my solidarity
> with Margaretta D'Archy hereby.    *Birgitta Jonsdottir, Poetician,
> activist and a member of the Icelandic Parliament.
> * * * * * * *
>
>
>
> *FREE SHANNON AIRPORT FROM THE US MILITARY! NOT MARGARETTA D’ARCY!  Write
> to Government TDs and to Minister Shatter: *alan.shatter at oir.ie
>
>
> webcal://www.facebook.com/ical/u.php?uid=100000384772555&key=AQD3NAHxvJRL59no
> https://www.facebook.com/galway.antiwar
> https://www.facebook.com/FreeShannon?fref=ts http://www.shannonwatch.org
> http://www.irishantiwar.org
> online petition contact.ie/node/271 <http://www.contact.ie/node/271>
> youtube clips re protests last Fri
> http://youtu.be/Y8Gsw-uKw3I
> http://youtu.be/k0GDbIc3yTg
> http://youtu.be/916TFoITexY
>
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