Italian plowshares activist Turi Vaccaro released from Sicilian prison
After 21 months behind bars, Turi Vaccaro walked out of Sicily’s Pagliarelli prison on April 15. The 67-year-old pacifist was a fugitive from court for previous acts of nonviolent resistance to the Pentagon’s MUOS satellite relay station when police caught up with him at the annual NO MUOS peace camp in August, 2018. He was […]
Sentencing dates set for Kings Bay Plowshares 7
from the Kings Bay Plowshares media team, April 10, 2020 After a six month wait, U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood has set two May dates for sentencing the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 defendants, who were found guilty on October 24, 2019 for their nonviolent symbolic disarmament action at Kings Bay Naval Base in April […]
“He’s Got Eight Numbers, Just Like Everybody Else” by Kathy Kelly
Trident nuclear disarmament activist Steve Kelly, a Jesuit priest, begins his third year imprisoned in a county jail as he and his companions await sentencing. by Kathy Kelly April 3, 2020 On April 4, 2020, my friend Steve Kelly will begin a third year of imprisonment in Georgia’s Glynn County jail. He turned 70 while […]
Activists charged, detained after praying for peace inside naval base on Jeju Island, South Korea
On March 7, peace activists on Jeju Island cut the fence to enter the naval base that has been opposed by residents of neighboring Gangjeong Village since it was first proposed in 1993, and became the focus of daily protests since 2007, before construction began. Once inside, Dr. Song Kang-ho and Ryu Bok-hee walked to the area of the […]
Immediate support action needed for Dr. Rafil Dhafir, Humanitarian Political Prisoner
Dr. Rafil Dhafir has been in prison for more than 17 years, is 71 years old and has multiple serious health problems. Please ask the warden at Federal Correctional Institution Allenwood Low in Pennsylvania to FREE HIM NOW! Dr. Rafil Dhafir is an Iraqi emigre and oncologist. As a respected physician and Islamic community leader in upstate […]
The COVID-19 crisis underscores the need to release Leonard Peltier
https://medium.com/…/the-covid-19-crisis-underscores-the-ne… March 26, 2020 by Zeke Johnson, Senior Director of Programs, Amnesty International USA Amnesty International, an independent human rights organization, has long called for clemency and release for Native American activist Leonard Peltier, due to fair trial concerns, the exhaustion of his appeals and his having served more than 40 years in prison, some […]
Judge Orders Chelsea Manning’s Release From Jail for Not Cooperating With WikiLeaks Grand Jury, Supporters Raise $256,000 Fines
By Andy Worthington (reprinted by permission of the author) March 15, 2020 Good news from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, where, on Thursday (March 12), District Judge Anthony J. Trenga ordered the immediate release from jail of whistleblower Chelsea Manning (formerly Pfc. Bradley Manning), who has been imprisoned since […]
Thirteen disarmament activists arrested in nonviolent blockade of Trident nuclear submarine base
by Felice & Jack Cohen-Joppa, the Nuclear ResisterThirteen nuclear abolitionists blocked traffic leading into Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Washington on March 2, as part of a public protest of the United States’ Trident nuclear-missile launching submarines based there.The direct action came at the conclusion of the annual gathering of the Pacific Life Community, a network of spiritually motivated activists from the Pacific Coast […]
Kings Bay Plowshares 7 still await sentencing
from the Kings Bay Plowshares support group, February 6, 2020 Dear Friends, We continue to wait for a sentencing date to be announced. There have been delays in getting all the necessary pre-sentencing reports done by the probation officers. The defendants were originally told that sentencing would be 60-90 days from the conviction date on […]
Conference & demo in May: Stop the New Nuclear Arms Race
From OREPA, Nukewatch and the Nuclear Resister, COVID 19 update, April 6, 2020: Maryville College’s campus is closed through the end of May, and Tennessee has instituted travel and gathering restrictions, so we have taken the disappointing but necessary decision to cancel STOP THE NEW NUCLEAR ARMS RACE. If you are registered for the conference, […]