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	Lie-Down Protest

papananook

5-23-2008 8:28 AM

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5-23-2008 1:09 PM

kkcapricorn

I am proud to have Irish blood in my veins.

5-24-2008 6:36 AM

papananook

Aye, and Begorrah!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/666ce7ec-7cce-4929-a51d-739436ea9e7e/0483406F-7033-45FC-9CBC-2FC388AD3CA8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/22/9119/" href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/22/9119/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.commondreams.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/22/9119/"><P>More than 100 campaigners against cluster bombs staged a lie-down protest in the middle of O’Connell Street in Dublin this morning.<A title="0522 01 1" href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/wp-content/photos/0522_01_1.jpg"><IMG hspace="10" height="251" border="0" align="right" width="311" vspace="10" alt="0522 01 1" src="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/wp-content/photos/0522_01_1.jpg" /></A>According to gardaí, the protest started at 7am and lasted about an hour. Campaigners, including survivors injured by cluster bombs, laid down in the median of O’Connell Street close to the Spire.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/22/9119/"><P>The protest was as part of the campaign to secure an international agreement banning cluster bombs. An international conference taking place this week in Croke Park aims to ban the manufacture and use of cluster munitions.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/22/9119/"><P>Representatives of more than 100 states are attending the conference, although the United States, Russia and Britain - some of the most prolific users of the small munitions - are not attending.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/22/9119/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.commondreams.org/img/7DF2CCF5-F572-4AE6-B9A3-E4457EE30202" alt="0522 01 1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/22/9119/"><P>Cluster bombs open in mid-air and scatter as many as several hundred “bomblets” over wide areas. They often fail to explode, creating minefields that can kill or injure anyone who comes across them.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0483406F-7033-45FC-9CBC-2FC388AD3CA8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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