Nine activists arrested on Good Friday at NY drone base
Nine peace activists were arrested on April 14 during a Good Friday witness against drone warfare at Hancock Air Base in New York. While blocking the entrance into the base, some of them stood with arms outstretched against replicas of cross-shaped drones, while others held cut-outs of drones topped with signs, some of which read […]
Nine activists arrested during a snow storm after blocking gate to “christening” of warship
from the Aegis 9 Nine activists were arrested during a snow storm on Saturday morning, April 1 at Bath Iron Works (BIW) in Maine during a “christening” of a destroyer outfitted with so-called “missile defense” systems. The group blocked the ceremony entry gate and were charged with trespass on BIW property – which ironically is […]
Awareness and Action: Nuclear Resistance as a Millennial
from Truthout March 28, 2017 by Allison McGillivray It was March 7, and I wasn’t expecting the snow. I tucked my fingers into my sleeves, wishing I hadn’t left my gloves in California. I had traveled to the Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor to demonstrate at the site of the largest stockpile of deployed nuclear weapons in […]
Thirteen nuclear resisters arrested at Bangor Trident base
The Pacific Life Community returned to Washington state for their annual gathering, concluding with a blockade of the main gate into the Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor. The base is the Pacific homeport of the Trident nuclear ballistic missile submarine fleet. A two-day program at a nearby retreat center built on the legacy of now-retired Raymond Hunthausen. […]
Australian activists remove metal sword from large crucifix at war memorial in historic cemetery on Ash Wednesday
Brisbane-area Catholic Workers and friends visited the Australian city’s historic Toowong Cemetery on Ash Wednesday afternoon, March 1. At the gate stands a large stone crucifix, adorned by a metal sword that marks it as a war memorial. “From the moment I saw that sword on the cross… I knew I could not not remove […]
Drone resisters acquitted by New York jury!
from Upstate Drone Action Four drone resisters who had been arrested in 2015 at Hancock drone base – James Ricks, Daniel Burns, Brian Hynes and Ed Kinane – were found innocent of all charges at 11 p.m. at the Dewitt Town Court in New York. After deliberating for only about a half hour, the jury […]
Six anti-drone activists arrested during two actions at California’s Beale Air Force Base
from Occupy Beale Air Force Base Anti-drone activists blocked traffic at the Main Gate into Beale Air Force Base for over 30 minutes on February 28 during early morning commute hour. Flora Rogers, Mike Rufo, Pamela Osgood and Toby Blomé were later arrested for trespassing as they entered the base. One was trying to deliver […]
Two peace activists arrested after entering BAE site in England, intending to disarm warplanes bound for Saudi Arabia
from Campaign Against Arms Trade, caat.org.uk Early on the morning of January 29, Reverend Dan Woodhouse, a Methodist minister in Leeds, and Quaker activist Sam Walton entered BAE Systems’ Warton site in order to disarm warplanes bound for Saudi Arabia. Both have been arrested and are being held “on suspicion of criminal damage” in Blackpool. […]
Obama administration denies clemency for Leonard Peltier
from the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee January 18, 2017, in a letter addressed to Leonard Peltier’s lawyer, the Obama administration formally denied the request to grant clemency to Peltier. Leonard Peltier, a Native rights activist and member of the American Indian Movement, has been incarcerated since 1976 convicted of a crime he did not […]
Chelsea Manning to be released early as Obama commutes sentence
From the New York Times by Charlie Savage January 17, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday commuted all but four months of the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the Army intelligence analyst convicted of a 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted Mr. Obama’s administration and brought […]