Three activists arrested at Creech drone base on International Day of Peace
from Nevada Desert Experience Three prayerful activists were arrested at Creech Air Force Base at 7:05 a.m. on September 21 while trying to enforce the International Day of Peace. One was charged with the alleged crime of “trespassing on government land” and two were charged with the alleged crime of “pedestrian in roadway”. All were […]
Hancock drone base gates closed on International World Day of Peace, five arrested
On the morning of Monday, September 21, members of the grassroots human rights coalition, Upstate Drone Action to Ground the Drones and End the Wars, were arrested for closing the main gate of Hancock Airfield to call a halt to the U.S. weaponized drone program operated out of Hancock by the 174th Attack Wing of […]
Transform Now Plowshares trio receive “unsupervised” supervised probation at resentencing; $52,000 restitution upheld by judge
from the Transform Now Plowshares After hearing arguments from both sides during a teleconference sentencing hearing on the morning of September 15, Judge Amul Thapar split the different between the defense’s request for no supervised probation and the government’s request for supervised probation for Sr. Megan Rice, Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli.
Shin Bet orders Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu arrested again
Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was arrested on September 10 because Israeli police, at the direction of the Shin Bet, claim his recent Channel 2 interview violates the terms of his release from prison (he was released in 2004 with strict conditions after serving his entire 18 year sentence). But government censors had approved the […]
Swords Into Plowshares: Fr. Daniel Berrigan’s reflections on the Plowshares 8 nuclear disarmament action
On September 9, 1980, six men and two women walked into a G.E. factory in Pennsylvania and smashed re-entry cones for nuclear missile warheads with hammers and poured blood on blueprints. Thank you, Dean Hammer, Fr. Carl Kabat, Fr. Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, Elmer Maas, Sr. Anne Montgomery, Molly Rush and John Schuchardt – the […]
Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu gives 1st interview to Hebrew-language Israeli press
from the Jerusalem Post Vanunu tells Channel 2: Israel’s nuclear program a danger to the world Mordechai Vanunu, the former technician at the Dimona nuclear plant who was imprisoned for 18 years for divulging secrets related to Israel’s purported nuclear weapons program, gave his first interview to the Hebrew-language Israeli press on Friday. Vanunu told […]
I’m out of prison but I’m still not free: the continuing struggles of the Y-12 Three
From opendemocracy.net – Transformation: Where love meets social justice by Michael Edwards Three peace activists followed by openDemocracy have been released from jail, but their work against nuclear weapons goes on. “Sabotage of the national defense.” That was Judge Amal Thapar’s ruling when three peace protestors entered the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility in Oak Ridge, […]
History of Nonviolent Resistance to Trident in the Pacific Northwest
Thanks to Leonard Eiger for sending these articles. The following articles articulate the rich history of nonviolent resistance that took root in the Pacific Northwest beginning in the 1970s. The first two articles are by Matt Dundas, and were originally published in the Antiwar and Radical History Project-Pacific Northwest, based at the University of Washington, […]
Five supporters of the nuclear deal with Iran arrested at Albany federal building
This is what Democracy looks like: Albany rally and sit-in at the Federal Building to support the Nuclear Deal with Iran from Waging Peace/Women Against War by Mickie Lynn On Wednesday, August 26, 2015, about 70 people gathered outside the Leo O’Brien Federal Building in Albany, New York as part of a nationwide series of […]
From the Bottom Up: A five-decade perspective on the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)
The following text is excerpted and expanded from a workshop led by Frank Cordaro for 30 U.S. federal judges as part of the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference in Omaha, Nebraska in August of 2014. I’d like to start of with two words that connect you with me: Scribes and Pharisees. I was a Catholic priest […]