Chelsea Manning Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison
by Jack Cohen-Joppa More than three years after the arrest and torturous imprisonment of PFC Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning for revealing thousands of classified State Department cables and war incident reports from Iraq and Afghanistan via WikiLeaks, the 25-year-old army enlistee was convicted of 20 separate offenses at court martial this summer. On August 21, […]
One NATO 5 defendant deported to Poland; second placed in solitary confinement
from the NATO 5 support blog Sebastian “Sabi” Senakiewicz of the NATO 5 has been deported to his native Poland after spending several weeks in immigration detention. Last November, Sabi took a non-cooperating plea deal to charges of falsely making a terrorist threat after being targeted by two undercover Chicago cops who had infiltrated activist […]
~ from the Irwin County Detention Center, by Michael Walli
ELEVATING THE HOST Four times our corners of ninety The circle of charity embracing all Is unbroken with 360 In leap year take a mind leap Make your election sure To the House of Bread Christmas comes full circle When our foursquare New Jerusalem comes down from Heaven Santa Maria sank at Christmas In the […]
German bomber base shut down by ambitious “rhythm beats bombs” blockaders
by John LaForge, Nukewatch BÜCHEL AIR FORCE BASE, Germany — Over 750 people converged here at the country’s largest air base – although U.S. bases at Spangdahlem and Ramstein are far bigger — to condemn the retention of 20 U.S. nuclear weapons, in open violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and in a show of […]
Arrests at Hiroshima & Nagasaki Day actions across the U.S.
LOCKHEED MARTIN, PENNSYLVANIA Peace and anti-nuclear activists demonstrated at Lockheed Martin in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania on August 6, the date in 1945 that the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. After a commemoration which included music, litany, bell-tolling and a ceremony of memory and hope with incense, water and ashes, six […]
Bradley Manning acquitted of aiding the enemy; sentencing phase begins for other convictions
by the Bradley Manning Support Network. July 30, 2013 “We won the battle, now we need to go win the war,” shared defense attorney David Coombs following today’s verdict. “Today is a good day, but Bradley is by no means out of the fire,” he said to dozens of emotional supporters outside of the Fort Meade, Maryland military courtroom. Coombs […]
Six month prison sentence for line crossing at Offutt Air Force Base
On July 25, Jerry Ebner was sentenced to 6 months in prison. Ebner crossed the line at Offutt Air Force Base, home of STRATCOM, on December 28, 2012 during the 34th annual Feast of the Holy Innocents witness. He will be allowed to self surrender at a federal prison to be assigned to him in […]
Four Talisman Saber protesters arrested after barracks blockade
from The Morning Bulletin Four peace activists were arrested on July 19 blockading the Caroona Street gate of Western Street Barracks, Rockhampton (Queensland, Australia). Their intention was to disrupt the Talisman Saber war rehearsals by putting their bodies on the road in front of military supply vehicles, activist Graeme Dunstan said. He said those arrested are […]
Women bring their message to Vermont Yankee workers, 8 arrested
from Shut It Down affinity group VERNON, Vermont—Timing their presence to coincide with the end of the day shift at Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on Monday, July 15, eight women of the Shut It Down Affinity Group displayed signs from a legally-designated spot across Route 142 from the power plant driveway as workers […]
24 arrested for civil resistance at Kansas City nuclear weapons part plant
Protesters at new Kansas City facility seek to open a door to a nuclear-weapons-free world from Jane Stoever On July 13, about 80 people sang and prayed at the entry road to a new facility in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. By 10:15 a.m., two dozen protesters had crossed the property line and were soon […]