Ciaron O'Reilly: Radical Discipleship - Serving the Homeless, Resisting the War Machine
BristolStudent | 26.11.2010 16:28
Speaker: Ciaron O'Reilly
Venue: Mulitfaith Chaplaincy, Bristol University - 1 Woodland Rd, Bristol, Avon BS8 1AU
Date: Monday 29th November
Time: 8pm
Catholic Activist Ciaron O'Reilly will be speaking about his work resisting war, and practising radical christianity
Ciaron O'Reilly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaron_O%27Reilly has spent his adult life living in Catholic Worker communities with the homeless, mentally ill, released prisoners, illegal aliens.
Ciaron has spent two years in U.S., Australian and Irish prisons for his faith based acts of nonviolent resistance to war and the preparations for war. These actions have included the disarming of a B52 Bomber on the eve of the first Gulf War, disabling of uranium mining equipment and the disabling of a U.S. Army war plane at Shannon Airport on the eve of the U.S./U.K. invasion of Iraq.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s166615...0.htm
Ciaron presently lives with destitute refugees at Giuseppe Conlon House http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98254 in London and is involved in nonviolent resistance to the war on Afghanistan.
Venue: Mulitfaith Chaplaincy, Bristol University - 1 Woodland Rd, Bristol, Avon BS8 1AU
Date: Monday 29th November
Time: 8pm
Catholic Activist Ciaron O'Reilly will be speaking about his work resisting war, and practising radical christianity
Ciaron O'Reilly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaron_O%27Reilly has spent his adult life living in Catholic Worker communities with the homeless, mentally ill, released prisoners, illegal aliens.
Ciaron has spent two years in U.S., Australian and Irish prisons for his faith based acts of nonviolent resistance to war and the preparations for war. These actions have included the disarming of a B52 Bomber on the eve of the first Gulf War, disabling of uranium mining equipment and the disabling of a U.S. Army war plane at Shannon Airport on the eve of the U.S./U.K. invasion of Iraq.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s166615...0.htm
Ciaron presently lives with destitute refugees at Giuseppe Conlon House http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98254 in London and is involved in nonviolent resistance to the war on Afghanistan.
BristolStudent
Original article on IMC Bristol:
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/701737