and for Ireland's neutrality

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Length: 0:28:57
Uploaded: 4 Apr, 2022

Recording Date: 3 Apr, 2022
Recording Location: Galway, Ireland; Denman Island BC
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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Program Title: WINGS #51-21 Irish Grannies Rage for Peace
Description: Documentary by Margaretta D'Arcy includes songs and lyrics by Galway's Raging Grannies and other granny groups, and an overview of Ireland's neutrality, its erosion - especially in allowing US military use of Shannon airport - and some Irish public opinion.

Host(s): Margaretta D'Arcy
Featured Speakers/Guests: Margaretta D'Arcy, known to longtime WINGS listeners as Radio Pirate Woman, is a nearly-88-year-old Irish actress, playwright, feminist, and peace activist, who has been repeatedly arrested and served time in prison for her activism at Shannon airport. Other voices are unnamed demonstrators.

Credits: Produced by Margaretta D'Arcy and Finn Arden; WINGS series producer, Frieda Werden

Comments: Around 5:26, you are NOT hearing the F-word; the phrase, spoken twice, is "blood-sucking vulture capitalists"
WINGS has fact-checked the numbers of US military suicides and deaths in war. This source from Brown University has figures slightly higher than D'Arcy's: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/06/24/suicide-combat-veterans

We endeavoured to fact-check the number 5 million deaths in wars led by the US and NATO. No reliable death counts exist for most of these wars, as enemy death numbers were usually not reported - much less the collateral damage from hunger, disease and displacement. However, 5 million may be on the conservative side. A figure of 3 million for the Korean War alone - the first US-NATO joint military venture - is widely cited. This site puts the combined death toll of US wars since WW2 at 12 million: http://www.worldfuturefund.org/Reports/Imperialism/usmurder.html