Hammered by the Irish: How the Pitstop Ploughshares Disabled a U.S. War Plane-With Ireland's Blessing BISAC-MED073000 John's High School

John's High School

Author: Tamsen Fadal

Schatz employs his own comfortable grasp of modern science to do justice to our common ancestors

Author: Jacob Riis

Published: 08/01/2004

Hammered by the Irish: How the Pitstop Ploughshares Disabled a U.S. War Plane-With Ireland's Blessing BISAC-MED073000 John's High SchoolOn 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