The Global Women’s Strike in Ireland sends love and support to everyone gathering at Shannon on 7^th January, for Women’s Christmas vigil and camp.  Your presence speaks for all of us who refuse to accept as normal, moral or legal the stopovers at the airport of CIA flights taking kidnapped people to torture and the US military flying troops to rape, torture and kill or be killed themselves. 

With very few exceptions, the media try to tell us that the anti-war movement has gone away, mistaking the movement for the day when everyone marches, reducing and hiding the extent of its power.  The anti-war movement is women whose survival work caring for families and whole communities is a fundamental and never-ending action against war and occupation; it’s the refusenik soldier who won’t get back on the plane and testifies to expose torture and rape by the US and Iraqi ‘government’ collaborators; it’s the men and women who live near an airport and fight to publicise illegal landings by CIA planes transporting people to torture; it’s the families and communities who demand money for better health care for loved ones, demanding caring not killing priorities; it’s the communities who struggle to stop multi-nationals like Shell in their pursuit of oil and gas profit at the cost of human life.

We are all still here.  In fact our global movement is growing.  Will the media tell the truth about what we are doing, even if they don’t join in, or will they stay embedded with the government, any government, but always ultimately Bush’s government? Will they report that we intend to win this fight to end the US-led terrorist war on all of us and its use of Shannon, and that our survival is at stake?