Holy Thursday arrests at General Dynamics/Electric Boat
On April 17, Holy Thursday, seven participants of a Holy Week peace pilgrimage in Connecticut were arrested while blocking the entrance leading to the engineering building of General Dynamics/Electric Boat. Before they were arrested, together with the other peace walkers, they performed a foot washing in the road and held long banners that read “Holy […]
3 peace walkers arrested at Creech AFB, 3 more at Nevada nuclear test site
During the Nevada Desert Experience’s annual Holy Week Sacred Peace Walk, protesters blocked the gate at Nevada’s Creech Air Force Base on April 16 at 7:15 a.m. About a dozen peace walkers stood in the road until the Las Vegas Metro Police declared it an illegal assembly and threatened to arrest them. Amaya Rodriguez, Catherine […]
Lenten resistance at the Ministry of Defence
from Catholic Peace Action Dear Friend, Here is what we have been up to this Lent! After moments of prayer and reflection, under the beautiful, sparkling blue spring sky, Ray, Dan and Carmel approached the front entrance of the Ministry of Defence in London on April 2. It was unguarded, with only a trickle of […]
Post-prison reflection from Brian Terrell
The Only Sane Solution… Resisting Nuclear Weapons in Europe “We still hold that nonviolent resistance is the only sane solution, and that we have to continue to make our voice heard until we are finally silenced–and even then, in jail or concentration camp, to express ourselves.” Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker, 1940 March […]
Post-prison reflection from Brian Terrell
The Only Sane Solution… Resisting Nuclear Weapons in Europe “We still hold that nonviolent resistance is the only sane solution, and that we have to continue to make our voice heard until we are finally silenced–and even then, in jail or concentration camp, to express ourselves.” Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker, 1940 March […]
Seventeen arrests in NYC during protest in support of nuclear ban treaty
On March 5, 17 people were arrested in New York City at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations during a protest in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Participants asked for a meeting with the interim U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and were refused. Others blocked First Avenue with a […]
Two nuclear resisters arrested during Ash Wednesday witness at Tucson’s Raytheon plant
Members of the Pacific Life Community from California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Nevada and Arizona met in St. David, Arizona from March 3–6 for their annual gathering and nuclear weapons protest. Two members of the faith-based network were arrested on Ash Wednesday, March 5 during a nonviolent resistance action at the Raytheon weapons factory in Tucson, […]
South Korean Catholic priest arrested for October protest of Jeju Naval Base
[Statement] Condemning the police who responded to peaceful actions of nonviolent civil disobedience with arrest! Jeju is not a U.S. colony! Close the Jeju Naval Base that is turning Jeju into an outpost of the U.S. against China! At 1:30 p.m. on February 26, police arrested Fr. Sung Hwan Kim, a peacekeeper in Gangjeong and […]
Leonard Peltier is out of prison!!
A beautiful and historic day – This morning, February 18, at 8:40 a.m. eastern time, Leonard Peltier walked out of FCI Coleman in Florida and is headed home to the Turtle Mountain reservation in North Dakota!! He still has restrictions of home confinement, but after almost 50 years, he is no longer in a […]
Brian Terrell to Enter a German Prison on February 26 for Anti-Nuclear Weapons Protest
by Brian Terrell February 11, 2025 While participating in an international peace camp on July 14, 2019 organized by Nukewatch and GAAA, Susan Crane of Redwood City, California and Susan van der Hijden of Amsterdam and I were apprehended by German Military police after cutting a hole in the security fence and entering the airfield […]