| Hammered by the Irish: How the Pitstop Ploughshares Disabled a U.S. War Plane-With Ireland's Blessing Contributor(s): Browne, Harry (Author), Berrigan, Daniel (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1904859909 ISBN-13: 9781904859901 Publisher: AK Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2008 Annotation: 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. Harry Browne is a journalism lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Ireland - Political Science | Peace - History | Military - Iraq War (2003-2011) |
| Dewey: 303.484 |
| LCCN: 2008929304 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 7.2" (0.45 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Ireland |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Harry Browne is a journalism lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology. |