One peace activist gets a $5,000 fine, another gets five years probation for entering Ft. Benning during protest to close the SOA
from the Ledger-Enquirer by Ben Wright One School of Americas Watch protester was sentenced to five years probation and another was slapped with a maximum $5,000 fine Thursday for trespassing onto Fort Benning during the annual protest in November. U.S. Magistrate Stephen Hyles sentenced Robert Norman Chantal, 62, of Americus to five years probation after […]
28-Year Crime Sprees of a Peacenik and a Colonel
from counter punch by John LaForge A former Army Brigadier General was busted two ranks and fined $20,000 this year after being charged with sexual assault of an Army Captain — a subordinate he reportedly threatened to kill if she revealed their affair. Jeffrey A. Sinclair’s multiple convictions should have gotten him thrown out of […]
Appeal hearing scheduled on sabotage charge for three imprisoned nuclear disarmament activists
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has assigned the oral argument on the sabotage charge in the case of the Transform Now Plowshares – Greg Boertje-Obed, Michael Walli and Sr. Megan Rice – for March 12 at 9 a.m. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Each side will be given 15 minutes to argue. The decision will probably […]
A Future in Prison
by Kathy Kelly January 22, 2015 The Bureau of Prisons contacted me today, assigning me a prison number and a new address: for the next 90 days, beginning tomorrow, I’ll live at FMC Lexington, in the satellite prison camp for women, adjacent to Lexington’s federal medical center for men. Very early tomorrow morning, Buddy Bell, […]
Kathy Kelly begins 3 month sentence on January 23 at FMC Lexington for drone resistance
by Jane Stoever Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence (based in Chicago), was sentenced on December 10 to three months in federal prison for crossing a line on the entry road to Whiteman Air Force Base near Knob Noster, Missouri on June 1. Kelly was opposing all drone warfare, including drones guided by […]
Activists hold mock funeral for the Earth at Washington State nuclear submarine base; 10 arrested for blocking traffic
from Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action Activists from a local peace group blocked the main gate and staged a mock funeral at the Navy’s West Coast Trident nuclear submarine base in an act of civil resistance to nuclear weapons. Over sixty people participated in Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action’s annual celebration of Martin […]
Five activists arrested blocking entrance of world’s #1 war profiteer, honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
from the Brandywine Peace Community On Saturday, January 17, people stood in front of the Lockheed Martin complex in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania as the voice of Dr. King echoed over the area behind the King of Prussia Mall with the sound of excepts of his sermons and speeches. There was also bell-tolling, peace songs […]
Hancock drone resister convicted on unexpected new charge
Drone protester Bonny Mahoney of Syracuse, New York was convicted by Judge David S. Gideon in DeWitt Town Court on January 16 on a single count of trespass stemming from her arrest during a nonviolent protest at Hancock Air National Guard Base on April 28, 2013. When Mahoney arrived in court on January 15 for […]
Vigiler handcuffed at Livermore Lab protest
On January 6, the monthly Catholic Worker vigil at the Livermore nuclear weapons lab in California was joined by members of Tri-Valley CAREs, the local nuclear abolitionist group that keeps a critical eye on activity at Livermore. The particular focus of the January vigil was to oppose the planned use of plutonium in the National […]
Nuclear weapons protester Henry Stoever found “not guilty” of trespass at new Kansas City plant
by Jane Stoever After a 90 minute trial on January 16, 2015, at the Kansas City, Missouri Municipal Court, Judge Elena Franco found that the City had failed to prove that Henry Stoever had the “mens rea” (guilty intent, criminal mind) for conviction of trespass. Judge Franco also found that the City witness had failed […]