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Irish Peace Activist Denied Entry into the United States

By Matthew Rothschild, April 12, 2008

Damien Moran got stuck at O’Hare.

On Sunday, April 6, Moran flew into Chicago.

He was coming to the United States to meet his brother in Virginia, to give at talk a couple days later at a public library in Colorado Springs, sponsored by Citizens for Peace in Space, and to speak at the 16th annual Space Organizing Conference in Omaha, sponsored by the Global Network Against Weapons in Space.

“He asked me had I ever been arrested and I said, ‘Yes, but I was acquitted 2 years ago.’
Moran had, in fact, participated in an action five years ago in Ireland where protesters had entered Shannon Airport in Ireland and damaged a U.S. Navy jet.
The Global Network Against Weapons in Space is outraged

“Why on earth wouldn’t this government of ours allow an Irish citizen to share the reality of what’s going on in Poland is just appalling. What are we afraid of?”