Two peace activists arrested on Armed Forces Day at drone command center in Iowa
Veterans for Peace and Des Moines Catholic Worker 2nd Annual Armed Forces Day “Stop the Killing” Rally and Direct Action at Iowa Air National Guard Drone Command Center On May 19, Armed Forces Day, members of Veterans for Peace, Des Moines Catholic Worker and Iowa’s religious community held a rally and direct action at the […]
Kings Bay Plowshares in court for arraignment, bond hearing
by Patrick O’Neill, Kings Bay Plowshares At a May 17 bond hearing in United States District Court in Brunswick, Georgia, U.S. Attorney Karl Knoche told U.S. Magistrate Stan Baker that the government recommended that the seven Kings Bay Plowshares activists be held without bond pending their federal trial for conspiracy, destruction of property on a Naval […]
Ten arrested blockading entrance to Bangor Trident nuclear sub base
from Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action Ten cited in peaceful demonstration at Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor, WA Silverdale, WA, May 12, 2018: Forty-two activists were present at the Bangor Trident submarine base to celebrate the true meaning of Mothers Day for Peace and to protest nuclear weapons. Ten activists symbolically closed […]
Police arrest and detain Indian experts opposing uranium mines
Farmers near the uranium mine and mill at Tummalapalle, in India’s Andrha Pradesh state have been protesting contamination of soil and groundwater and the depletion of their irrigation wells by the operations of the nuclear industrial site. Some have had to abandon their homes to the invisible blight and have suffered health problems they blame […]
How do you tell the kids that Grandma is in jail for resisting nuclear weapons?
From Waging Nonviolence by Frida Berrigan “Our grandma is in jail,” Madeline tells a woman wrestling a shopping cart at Target. “She went over a war fence and tried to make peace,” Seamus adds helpfully. “They arrested her, and she is in jail now.” “Where?” the woman asks, looking from them to me in disbelief […]
Bond denied for Kings Bay Plowshares activists
Seven Catholic plowshares activists were arrested early Thursday morning, April 5 at the Kings Bay Naval Base in St. Mary’s, Georgia. They entered the base late in the evening of April 4, 2018 in an attempt to nonviolently transform weapons of mass destruction and inspire Americans to reject racism, militarism and economic injustice. They are […]
Seven Kings Bay Plowshares activists arrested inside Trident nuclear submarine base
(Updates at the Kings Bay Plowshares Facebook page here, and website here) Seven Catholic plowshares activists were detained early Thursday morning, April 5 at the Kings Bay Naval Base in St. Mary’s, Georgia. They entered on Wednesday night, April 4. Calling themselves Kings Bay Plowshares, they went to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command: “beat […]
Four women arrested at Creech protesting drone warfare
Four women – Toby Blome, Eleanor Levine, Susan Witka and Maggie Huntingon – were arrested on April 3 while blocking the entrance to Creech drone base in Nevada. The funeral procession and action, protesting drone warfare, was part of the Codepink Drone Resistance Week at Creech.
U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal Agree: Facts about Nuclear Weapons Can be Kept from Juries in Protest Cases
U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal Agree: Facts about Nuclear Weapons Can be Kept from Juries in Protest Cases Judicial Protection Racket Keeps the Bomb Behind a Wall of Silence by John LaForge, Nukewatch (Originally published in the Nuclear Resister #187, March 14, 2018. This version has been corrected by the author.) If you were thinking that […]
Two arrests at Creech drone base during Sacred Peace Walk
The 24th annual Sacred Peace Walk, organized by the Nevada Desert Experience, took place from March 24-30. The group of peace walkers began in Las Vegas and concluded a week and 60 miles later at the Nevada National Security Site (formerly known as the Nevada Test Site). From the Nevada Desert Experience website: “We walk […]