US ambassador at NUI Galway: Call to Protest

galway | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 08:03 by Global Women's Strike Ireland 087 7838688

Students and staff call others to join them to protest the visit of the US ambassador to NUI Galway

The Global Women's Strike has been asked by students to forward this call:

Students and staff at the National University of Ireland, Galway are calling on others to join them on Wednesday 14th November to protest the visit of the US ambassador, Thomas C. Foley, to the campus.

Ambassador Foley raised funds for Bush-Cheney in 2000 and from 2003-2004 was Director of Private Sector Development for the Coalition Privisional Authority in Iraq, appointed by Bush to privatise the Iraqi people's resources. He has been invited to NUI Galway by the student Law Society and will speak on US foreign policy.

Event is in the Cairnes Lecture Theatre, Arts/Science Building (the one with two big brown towers near the library) at 8pm. Please meet outside this theatre at 7.15pm.