Plowshares activist Mark Colville to return to Brunswick, Georgia jail
From Catholic Worker and Kings Bay Plowshares activist Mark Colville, sharing his statement before he self-surrenders to jail in Brunswick, Georgia on December 11, 2018 Greetings in the peace that the world cannot give… Please pardon my spottiness in terms of keeping in touch with all of you since getting out of jail in early […]
NCR’s Fox crosses the line, goes to trial to protest nuclear weapons
From the National Catholic Reporter by Thomas Fox December 3, 2018 I go to trial Dec. 7. With four other nuclear weapons protesters, I will appear in Kansas City, Missouri, Municipal Court, charged with trespassing at a sprawling 122-acre nuclear weapons manufacturing complex 12 miles south of the city. It’s officially called the Kansas City […]
Religious Freedom Restoration Act motions hearings for Kings Bay Plowshares
from the Kings Bay Plowshares Support Group The Kings Bay Plowshares, seven Catholic anti-nuclear weapons activists, with their lawyers and over 30 supporters, spent nearly 9 1/2 hours in federal court on November 7 in Brunswick, Georgia. This was the first day of a motions hearing to argue that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) […]
Come to Nevada – Walk for peace, resist nuclear weapons, stand for indigenous people’s rights and fill the jails!
An Invitation from the Nevada Desert Experience, April 13-19, 2019 by Brian Terrell On Indigenous People’s Day, formerly known as Columbus Day, October 8, 2018, Nye County, Nevada, prosecutors and Sheriff’s deputies ended a three decades old policy concerning arrests of protesters at the Nevada National Security Site, NNSS, formerly known as the Nevada Test […]
Four arrests during road blockade into Beale drone base
4 Arrested on October 30 While Blocking Military Drone Base; Traffic Blocked at Beale Air Force Base Entrance for Nearly an HourBEALE AIR FORCE BASE, near Wheatland, California – Four demonstrators were arrested early in the morning of Tuesday, October 30 during a protest in opposition of the ongoing 17-year U.S. bombing campaign in Afghanistan and U.S. […]
After three decades, trespass prosecutions resume at Nevada nuclear test site
by Jack Cohen-Joppa, the Nuclear Resister With the United States ready to burst from the starting gate in a new nuclear arms race, a recent change in policy aims to rein in any renewed protest at the U.S. nuclear weapons test site in Nevada. On October 8, Marc Page-Collogne was arrested with two others when […]
Seven peace activists arrested at Creech drone base on October 4
Report Back: 4th Annual SHUT DOWN CREECH: “STOP the Murder, STOP the War Crimes” September 30 – October 6, 2018 by Toby Blomé Seven protesters arrested while blockading Creech Assassin Drone Base…Just a week later over 75 Somali militants were killed in a single U.S. drone attack! On Thursday, October 4, as part of this fall’s […]
Burghfield bomb factory blockaded by anti-Trident protesters
From Trident Ploughshares Early on the morning of October 24, a group of Trident Ploughshares activists from across the U.K. converged on Burghfield Atomic Weapons Establishment near Burghfield. They blocked approach roads, preventing workers from entering. Hidden in the leafy lanes of Berkshire, Burghfield A.W.E. and its partner facility Aldermaston are where the U.K.’s nuclear […]
Nuclear dump opponent jailed in France
In rural northeast France, the 20-year resistance to a planned underground nuclear waste dump still flourishes, despite ongoing police and judicial intimidation. Government largess and a cultivated aura of technical and scientific respectability have coopted local governments, but the opposition has long tilled deep grassroots support. Authorities have lately sought with no success to divide […]
Fukushima evacuees’ friend arrested, jailed at Hiroshima memorial
UPDATE: August 17 – the jailed activist was released from custody today. Among the many commemorative events all around the Peace Park in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6 was an evening memorial service for victims of both the Bomb and nuclear power by Go West, Come West. It is a civic association of evacuees from […]