Greenpeace activists arrested at French nuclear power plant action
Greenpeace activists enter French nuclear plant and set off fireworks near spent-fuel pool to show vulnerabilities October 13, 2017 from The Japan Times MOSELLE, FRANCE – Greenpeace activists set off fireworks inside a nuclear plant in eastern France early Thursday after breaking into the facility to underline its vulnerability to attack. The anti-nuclear […]
Wrongful Rhetoric and Trump’s Strategy on Iran
by Kathy Kelly October 14, 2017 Mordechai Vanunu was imprisoned in Israel for eighteen years because he blew the whistle on Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program. He felt he had “an obligation to tell the people of Israel what was going on behind their backs” at a supposed nuclear research facility which was actually producing plutonium for nuclear […]
Seven arrested at Hancock drone base
from Upstate Drone Action Hancock Reaper Drone Base Entrance Blocked by Huge Dollar Signs Dripping with Blood 7 Arrested Delivering War Crimes Indictment to Hancock Reaper Drone Base At 9 a.m. on Monday, September 25, seven members of the grassroots group Upstate Drone Action once again were arrested as they delivered a citizen’s war crime […]
French police raided House of Resistance in Bure, arrested two
Early on the morning of September 20, at least 150 French police were involved in raids on the House of Resistance in the small village of Bure and other activists’ residences. Dozens of police broke through the door at the house of Resistance to enter, and also forced their way into camp trailers and vehicles […]
Week of resistance, more than 100 arrests, disrupts London arms fair
by the Nuclear Resister Over one hundred people were arrested during a week of nonviolent direct actions challenging the world’s largest arms trade fair, the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition held every two years in London. Leading up to the arms bazaar opening on September 12, thousands of people joined in strategically coordinated actions that successfully disrupted the shipment of massive hardware and glitzy displays into the […]
Clowns draw attention to French boycott of nuclear ban treaty
On August 8, about fifteen “clowns-in-reverse” demonstrated in front of the headquarters of La République En Marche, the new political party of French President Macron. “We came to thank him, because the war is a lot better than the Treaty!” said the Chief of Staff of the Clown Armies. Under a super-sized inflated bomb, the clowns […]
Natick Peace Chain action opposes nuclear war with North Korea
On Sunday, August 27, more than two dozen people formed a Peace Chain in Natick, Massachusetts. Carrying a length of heavy steel links, they walked from Natick Common to the entrance of the U.S. Army Natick Soldier System Center to call upon the military to refuse any order to launch a nuclear attack on North […]
Bill Doub, Presente!
William Coligny Doub II San Francisco, Spring 2017. Several years into worsening dementia, Bill listened to a recording of Pete Seeger singing Little Boxes. The lyrics include: And the people in the houses all go to the university And they all get put in boxes, little boxes all the same And there’s doctors and there’s […]
Four nuclear disarmament activists arrested at Lockheed Martin in Pennsylvania
Stand & Demand: Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Resist Lockheed Martin from Brandywine Peace Community On Saturday, August 5, in anticipation of the anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6-9, 1945), people were back in front of Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest war profiteer and the U.S. chief nuclear weapons contractor. Members of the […]
Activists blockade west coast nuclear base in plea to de-escalate nuclear crisis with North Korea
from Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action Activists blockaded the West Coast nuclear submarine base that would likely carry out a nuclear strike against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) should President Donald Trump give the order. Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, just 20 miles from Seattle, is home to the largest concentration of deployed […]