Contact: Danny Muller
773.784.8065
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Chicago, June 23, 2003…) At 10:30 a.m. this Tuesday, June 24th a group from Chicago’s Irish community who are becoming increasingly concerned with the fate of the five members of the Dublin based “Pit Stop Ploughshares” will attempt to meet with Katrina Doyle of the Irish Consulate located at 400 North Michigan Avenue. The group believes very
strongly that the five members of the Pit Stop Ploughshares should be celebrated, not imprisoned, for their efforts to stop flights carrying weapons of mass destruction that use Shannon Airport as a Pit Stop on their way to the Middle East.

In the early hours of Monday, February 3rd five members of the pacifist Catholic Worker Movement cut their way into Shannon Airport, Ireland. The peace activists poured human blood on the runway that has been
servicing U.S. military flights, troops and munitions deployments to U.S. military bases in Kuwait and Qatar. They constructed a shrine on the runway to Iraqi children killed and threatened by U.S./British bombardment and sanctions.

The “Pit Stop Ploughshares” � Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon, Damien Moran & Ciaron O’Reilly have been charged with a $2 million (U.S.) fine and possible terms of 10-years imprisonment for “criminal damage.”