Almost 40 anti-torture activists arrested at White House
From Witness Against Torture MESSAGE TO OBAMA: NO GUANTANAMO, NO BAGRAM, NO NDAA!! Thirty-seven members of Witness Against Torture were arrested in front of the White House on Thursday, January 12 around 3 p.m. Dressed in the iconic Guantanamo orange jumpsuits and black hoods, and accompanied by a cage representing indefinite detention, the activists were […]
Fr. Bix Bichsel in the hole at SeaTac Federal Prison, fasting and praying
Fr. William “Bix” Bichsel, SJ began a 3 month prison sentence at the SeaTac Federal Prison on November 10. The sentence resulted from an action at the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee on July 5, 2010. On January 10, Bix left SeaTac, and headed to a federal transition house in Tacoma, Washington […]
Human rights activist sentenced to six months in federal prison for protest at SOA
from SOA Watch SOA Watch activist Theresa Cusimano was sentenced on January 13, 2012 to the maximum prison term of six month for a trespass charge, and immediately taken into custody. She had crossed onto the Fort Benning military base in Georgia in November 2011 to protest the continued operation of the notorious School of […]
Three Y-12 nuclear resisters released after 8 months behind bars!
From Ralph Hutchison, OREPA Thursday, January 6, 2012 marks the end of eight long months of imprisonment for Steve Baggarly, Mike Walli and Bonnie Urfer who are scheduled to be released today from prisons in Lisbon, Ohio; Morgantown, West Virginia; and Lexington, Kentucky. We celebrate their faithful witness against the destructive power of thermonuclear weapons, […]
Dhafir moved from CMU; resentencing postponed
Iraqi-American physician and humanitarian Dr. Rafil Dhafir, jailed nearly nine years on charges involving his charity to the people of his native country during the years of economic sanctions between the 1991 and 2003 U.S.-led attacks, has been moved from the notorious Communications Management Unit into general population at the U.S. prison at Terre Haute, […]
Bradley Manning in court
This post is updated with links to each day’s report of the Article 32 hearings, through Day 6, December 21 Day 1 – Getting into the Courtroom 7:35 AM Manning’s pretrial hearing (called the Article 32) began on December 16, 2011 at Fort Meade in Maryland. The weather was chilly and grey, but lightened as […]
Occupy Entergy! women arrested at nuclear power corporate office
Eleven women of the Shut It Down Affinity Group occupied the offices of Entergy Corporation on Old Ferry Road, Brattleboro, Vermont, on Monday morning, December 12, and attempted to make a citizens’ arrest of the board and officers of Entergy, operator of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. All the women were arrested […]
Remember a resister over the holidays
Holiday Greetings People of Peace, Oh what a year it’s been! For those of us in the Anti-Nuclear and Anti-War Resistance Movement it has been a year of continued struggle against an ever growing (and out-of-control) Military-Industrial Complex. From drones to nuclear weapons and more, dedicated peacemakers have steadfastly resisted the dominant culture of war. At places like Fort […]
British priest jailed for nonpayment of fine
Fr. Martin Newell of the London Catholic Worker community was sentenced to 24 days imprisonment on Friday 9 December 2011 at Highbury Magistrates Court. Martin was brought before the court for refusing to pay a fine arising from cutting into the Northwood Headquarters/ London in December 2008. The anti-war direct action was timed for the […]
~ From Morgantown FCI, by Steve Baggarly
The one thing which every jail and prison does more than anything else is counting people. We’re counted five times a day here. Three times we’re returned to our housing units to stand by our bunks and be counted, and they come through twice at night after lights out. We’re counted to the extent that […]