More arrests resist the destruction that is paving the way for a naval base on Jeju Island; Catholic priest injured during Stations of the Cross at site
from Sung-Hee Choi On the morning of April 12, three women activists were arrested in front of the construction gate at the site of the planned naval base on Jeju Island. Different from the days before the election when the police usually fixated people from gathering, they arrested those when they blocked the gate. The […]
~ from FCI Dublin, by Susan Crane
Easter Greetings from Susan Crane from the Disarm Now Plowshares blog Dear Friends, Thanks for your prayers, letters, books and encouragement. Your support means so much to me. And thanks for your work that brings us all closer to the Beloved Community. I was walking back to the housing unit from dinner the other day, […]
Good Friday arrests at 6 U.S. nuclear weapons related sites
LIVERMORE LAB, CALIFORNIA By Denis Cuff Contra Costa Times Thirty four demonstrators were arrested peacefully Friday morning during an annual nuclear weapons protest at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Keeping with a Good Friday protest tradition, some 100 to 150 protesters prayed and sang at the intersection of Vasco and Patterson Pass roads. Then they marched […]
Father Kim and Reverend Lee released
from Sung-Hee Choi Rev. Lee Jeong Hoon got released with 1 year suspended sentence , 2 years probation and 100,000 won fine. He was arrested with Fr. Kim Jeong-Wook on March 9 when they broke the fence. Thanks to them, many people could enter the Gureombi Rock at the time. (April 4 photo by Baek […]
Hundreds arrested as Europeans act against NATO
Press release from NATO Game Over campaign at Peace Action in Belgium http://www.vredesactie.be/item.php?id=313 Around 2:00 a.m. April 1, 800 peace activists from more than ten European countries gathered near NATO headquarters in Evere, Brussels. 500 people tried nonviolently to enter the NATO compound. About 20 activists succeeded to enter the military site, 483 people were […]
Another activist resisting Jeju naval base to be sent to prison, and more Jeju resistance updates
from Sung-Hee Choi [March 31] One more activist is to be imprisoned: Mr. Lim Ho-Young, village media team leader Mr. Lim Ho Young, village media team leader who has done important media work with the nickname ‘thinkunit’ and has initiated a small peace park in the Samgeori (three way intersection) was arrested on March 29. […]
Koodankulam fasters relent; government lifts siege of villagers
Copyright © 2012 The Telegraph, Calcutta, India Chennai, March 27: The hunger strike by the protesters against the Kudankulam nuclear power station was withdrawn this evening. Members of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, led by convener S.P. Udayakumar, had been on hunger strike at Indinthakarai village, 3km from the plant, for the last 10 […]
Persistent resistance continues on Jeju Island
from Sung-Hee Choi [March 24] 17th day of people’s war against blast/ 13 times of blast-the 2nd biggest after March 21 Only a day after March 23 when the Prime Minister Office and Jeju Island government made an agreement to go through layout verification process on the docking capacity of 150,000 ton cruise ships […]
Largest number of arrests at a U.S. anti-nuclear power demonstration in more than 20 years
ACTIVISTS IN 3 STATES DEMAND: SHUT DOWN VERMONT YANKEE On March 22, the day after the original operating license for the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant expired, nearly 150 people in three states were arrested at protests demanding that the reactor be shut down now. Civil resistance actions organized by the Safe and Green Energy […]
Resistance continues as blasting for naval base accelerates on Jeju Island
by Jack and Felice Cohen-Joppa, the Nuclear Resister Despite growing condemnation at home and abroad, Korean navy contractors backed by hundreds of special police brought in from the mainland to repress local protest have for the last two weeks been dynamiting the unique volcanic coastline on Jeju Island to prepare the site for construction of […]