Hundreds more arrested in Tamil-Nadu nuclear power protest
Protest leader Dr. S.P. Udayakumar, threatened with sedition charges, sends letter from besieged activists behind police lines. Action alert from Michael Mariotte, Nuclear Information and Resource Service. March 23, 2012 Dear Friends, Dr. S.P. Udayakumar (Kumar to his friends, and I consider myself one of them) is a longtime leader in the peaceful resistance to […]
No prison time for David Corcoran
On March 21, the last of a group of 13 nuclear disarmament activists arrested at a July 5, 2010 action at the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee went to court. David Corcoran was sentenced to 150 hours of community service, a $1000 fine and 2 years of probation. Three dozen supporters in […]
Bradley Manning prosecution incurably infected by government misconduct
Attorney argues that prosecution’s misconduct leaves dismissal as the only option By Kevin Zeese. March 20, 2012 – Bradley Manning Support Network Courtroom sketch, Bradley Manning’s pretrial hearing Last week I spent two days in court for a pretrial motions hearing in the court martial of Bradley Manning, the private accused of leaking documents to […]
Seven women arrested after closing Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on originally scheduled date
from the Shut it Down affinity group Seven women of the Shut It Down Affinity Group chained the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant gate shut at about 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 21, 2012, the power plant’s fortieth birthday and the date it was originally scheduled to close. The plant’s operating license expired on Wednesday. […]
Two hundred anti-nuclear protesters arrested in India
(Photo: TEHELKA) Published on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 by Common Dreams THOUSANDS OF ANTI-NUCLEAR PROTESTERS FACE POLICE IN INDIA, 200 ARRESTED Green signal for nuclear power ‘is a red signal for our lives’ After thousands gathered in Idinthikarai, Tamil Nadu, India on Monday, March 19 to protest the vastly contested Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant there, police […]
Three month prison sentence for anti-nuclear court graffiti protest
from Trident Ploughshares Two peace activists were sentenced today in Dumbarton (Scotland) Sheriff Court for painting “political graffiti” on the walls of the court following a 2010 trial in which they maintained that the court did not uphold international law with respect to the illegality of the Trident nuclear weapon system. Barbara Dowling, a retired […]
Pacific Life Community’s “Occupy Vandenberg” ends with 13 arrests
(From VandenbergWitness.org) Thirteen people from the Pacific Life Community were arrested on Monday, March 12, as they blocked the roadway to the main gate at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast.
Livermore, thirty years on
From Waging Nonviolence by Ken Butigan | March 1, 2012 Direct Action, by Luke Hauser Thirty years ago today a handful of us nonviolently blocked the South Gate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a top-secret nuclear weapons lab in Northern California. Most of us were sentenced to a week in the local county jail. […]
Women paint for peace at Glasgow recruiting office
Three women painted the windows of the Army recruiting office in Glasgow, Scotland on March 1 in protest at the dishonest propaganda used to persuade young people to join up. At 8 a.m., Barbara Dowling and Leonna O’Neill painted in large colourful letters “DON’T JOIN UP. DON’T BELIEVE THE LYING ADVERTS”, “GUNS, BOMBS, TANKS? NO […]
~ Prison reflection from William “Bix” Bichsel, SJ
A Lenten Call: Give Up Our Violence! Note from Leonard Eiger, Disarm Now Plowshares: This is a reflection written over the course of two days by William “Bix” Bichsel, SJ during his 30-day stay in solitary confinement at the SeaTac Federal Detention Center. Bix began this reflection on Friday, February 3, 2012, the third day of his second (four day) […]