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

by Harry Browne

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904859909
• ISBN13: 9781904859901
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: AK Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.2"