NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE, MAIREAD MAGUIRE CALLS FOR PEACEFUL NONVIOLENT RESISTENCE TO UNITED KINGDOM AIR STRIKES AGAINST SYRIA.

Events, Press Releases, Syria
NO TO WAR On 2nd December, 2015 the United Kingdom Parliament voted to bomb Syria and the world watched as British planes, equipped with the latest bombs aptly named ‘Brimstone’ are dropped on Syrian targets and country. The excuse given for this madness of fear politics and war hysteria, is allegedly to stop Daesh (ISIL). Daesh is the name of Islamic fighters whose fundamentalist religious and political ideology allows for the killing and murder of opponents, and to date they have tragically murdered many people. These Islamic fundamentalist fighters do not represent true Islam or the Syrian people and its duly elected President Assad and Government,(7o% voted for their President ) currently trying to hold Syria together. These DAESH (ISIS) fighters are carrying out criminal acts and must of course…
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Candlelight Vigil FOR SYRIA – ‘DON’T BOMB SYRIA’

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Come Join Us Tonite For A CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL - 7 p.m CITY HALL, BELFAST - ‘DON’T BOMB SYRIA’ MAIREAD MAGUIRE AND ANN PATTERSON HAVE JUST RETURNED FROM A PEACE PEOPLE DELEGATION TO SYRIA AND LEBANON. EVERYWHERE THE MESSAGE WAS TO THE UK GOVERNMENT DON’T BOMB SYRIA DIALOGUE WORKS, PEACE IS POSSIBLE. IN RESPONSE TO THE APPEALS OF THE PEOPLE OF SYRIA FOR PEACE A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL WILL BE HELD AT CITY HALL TODAY TUESDAY lst DECEMBER at 7 p.m. Below is a message from the Children of Syria to the Children of the World sent on 27th November, 2015 ‘PLEASE DO NOT BOMB OUR COUNTRY SYRIA WE LOVE SYRIA’ WE INVITE THE CHILDREN OF NORTHERN IRELAND TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE CHILDREN OF SYRIA.
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INTERNATIONAL PEACE DELEGATION TO SYRIA – Who Is Going

Events, Syria
INTERNATIONAL PEACE DELEGATION TO SYRIA Led by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire SOLIDARITY WITH THE SYRIAN PEOPLE 24-30 November 2015 The Delegation Mairead Maguire; Ireland (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom) Mairead Maguire is cofounder of the Peace People Movement and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her extraordinary actions to end the political conflict in her native Northern Ireland. The Peace People is a movement committed to building a just and peaceful society through nonviolent social action. Since receiving the Nobel Prize, she has dedicated her life to promoting peace, both in Northern Ireland and around the world. Mairead is a member of the International Peace Council and the Nobel Women Initiative. Her global peace efforts have included regular visits to the Middle East region to work with…
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IRISH NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE MAIREAD MAGUIRE TO HEAD A 14 MEMBER INTERNATIONAL PEACE DELEGATION TO SYRIA – 24/30 November, 2015

Events, Syria
Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and 14 delegates from Australia, Belgium, Canada, India, Ireland, Poland, The Russian Federation, The United Kingdom and the United States, will begin a 6-day visit to Syria to promote peace and to express support for all Syrians who have been victims of war and terror since 20ll. This will be Mairead Maguire’s third visit to Syria as head of a peace delegation. Maguire said: ‘People across the world are rightly expressing solidarity with the people of France after the recent terror attack. However, while there is talk of a war on terror and the focus of that war will be Syria, there is little awareness of how a war will impact on the lives of millions of people in Syria”. In Syria, Christmas, Easter…
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15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Barcelona 13-15th November, 2015 Mairead Maguire Speech

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"ENDING THE ERA OF WARS" My dear Friends, I would like to thank the Major of Barcelona, Ada Colau I Ballano, the Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit, and all those who have worked so hard to make this great event possible. It is wonderful to see so many people here and in particular to see so many young people. I hope you will enjoy the next few days making new friends and leave feeling joyful and enthusiastic about the great tasks and challenges ahead of you. There are enormous challenges which will require all your energy, and enthusiasm, and above all your creativity and imagination to dream of, and to build a disarmed, peaceful world starting with ending militarism and wars… But in order to build a disarmed world,…
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