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 Monday May 31, 2004 22:54 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group - Indymedia Ireland
 'When Shall We Three Meet Again' sez wag 'Dublin or Shannon? Thunder? Lightning? Rain?' Plans are breaking out like a sudden summer heat rash for protests to mark the visit to Ireland in late June of possibly the most unpopular individual on the Globe - GW Bush.
Nationwide protests calling for 'troops out of Iraq' planned for the 26th and 27th June will also greet him as he arrives back in the USA from his short visit to the West of Ireland. These protests will take place in a country in which public dissent is under a sustained and unprecedented attack from the Republican Administration. Ireland is in a unique position in all of this. It is traditionally friendly territory for US presidents. A large majority of the population do not want Bush here at all. He happens to be arriving in Shannon Airport - a place that symbolises Irish Government complicity in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq - where the rubber literally hits the road. All the ingredients are in place for a massive series of protests in the Global spotlight. The whole World WILL be watching. What's more there is no sign so far of any Mayday-style orchestrated state/media moral panic campaign to put a dampener on protests. A once in a lifetime opportunity is there for the taking. So what is planned? This is where the problems seem to arise. So many things are planned that it is all a little confusing at first glance for the uninitiated. So in the interests of clarity here is a full breakdown of events which have been planned so far that we at IMC IRL are aware of. Please add details of events not covered in the comments below this feature and we will add them in.
SATURDAY 19TH JUNE
THURSDAY 24TH JUNE
FRIDAY 25TH JUNE
SATURDAY 26TH JUNE
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He is expected in Ireland on the 25th/26th June for an EU/US Summit which will take place in County Clare. By then he will have visited 
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4can you also include
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=65270
Visual impact protest - @ george bush
in above section
The assembly of Plataforma Aturem la Guerra (Barcelona) - Stop the War Platform, on Thursday 3rd June, adopted the initiative to promote a pan-European noise protest in support of the Irish anti-Bush campaigns and in response to the European nature of the whole event.
THIS COULD BE REALLY SOMETHING.
The idea is that groups all over Europe, in every city, town, village, ..... start clattering their pots and pans, drums, ... whatever, at 21.00 Irish and UK (and Portuguese time)
22.00 central European time
23.00 East euroepan time
The call to action was sent out this morning. A press conference will be mounted in Bcn soon.
Let's make this BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG.
Saludos
The date (!!!!) for the noise protest, for the purpose of clarity, is Friday 25 June.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We'll be posting the poster tomorrow and sneding the draft manifesto really soon.
In the meantime, don't reply to the previous e-mail address, euroambush@terra.es as, mysteriously, it has been suspended by my server "temporarily, to conduct improvements" Strange, as I have several other personal e-mails with the same server not affected.
So, new address (until further notice)
25j2004@terra.es
All the best
euroambush