Hundreds demonstrate and blockade German nuclear power plant
from the Nuclear Heritage Network: Several hundreds of people protested today, Sunday October 2, 2011 in Grohnde (Lower Saxony). After a demonstration the access roads to the NPP are blockaded by climbing activists who abseiled from a highway bridge. They are supported by some 50 activists blockading the road and an operating track with a […]
More Jeju naval base resisters jailed
According to the latest update at savejejuisland.org, “Eleven South Korean college students have been beaten and arrested by naval soldiers and police while trying to visit Gureombi Rock”, the landmark site of the strategically provocative Navy base under construction at Gaengjong village on Jeju, South Korea’s Peace Island. “Fifteen people are now in custody. Secret […]
Boertje-Obed and Garbison refuse fines & community service; jailed one week for Kansas City nuclear weapons factory protest
Art Laffin (Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Community, Washington, DC) writes from Kansas City: Dear Friends, It was a long fruitful day of truth-telling in Kansas City Municipal Court for 27 peacemakers, mostly Catholic Workers, arrested last May 2nd at the site of the new Kansas City nuclear weapons plant. Those arrested were part of a […]
Dennis DuVall gets one month in jail for Y-12 trespass
Y12 Resisters’ Sentencing • Day 7, Dennis DuVall Report by Ralph Hutchison, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance Upon first meeting Dennis DuVall, with his Arizona tan, square jaw, bright eyes, and tall white cowboy hat, you can’t help but think “Marlboro Man.” Then you talk with Dennis and listen to the depth of his commitment, […]
Y-12 resister Beth Rosdatter sentenced to one month; taken into custody
Y12 Resisters’ Sentencing • Day Six, Part 2: Beth Rosdatter Report from Ralph Hutchison, OREPA To fully appreciate Beth Rosdatter’s sentencing hearing, one would have to have been present during the trial in May. Before the trial, Judge Bruce Guyton ruled a few things out of bounds—any discussion of nuclear policy, nuclear weapons, faith, motivation, […]
Sr. Mary Dennis Lentsch sentenced to time served for Y-12 action
Y12 RESISTERS SENTENCING REPORT • Day 6, Part 1, Mary Dennis Lentsch From Ralph Hutchison, OREPA Mary Dennis Lentsch appeared this morning before judge Bruce Guyton in federal court in Knoxville, Tennessee to be sentenced for her nonviolent civil resistance at the Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in July of 2010. The […]
Brad Lyttle sentenced to 1 month house arrest & 1 year probation for Y-12 disarmament action
Report from Ralph Hutchison with the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance If Brad and the judge were going to have a difference of opinion, it wasn’t going to be over Brad’s lack of courtesy. “Mr. Lyttle, can you hear me?” Judge Bruce Guyton asked, as he does of every defendant at the beginning of proceedings. […]
Another activist, Steve Baggarly, receives 8 month prison sentence for Y-12 disarmament action
Y-12 Resisters’ Sentencing Report (from Ralph Hutchison, OREPA) DAY FIVE, PART I • 19 September 2011, Steve Baggarly The purpose of the hearing was to sentence Steve Baggarly for his July 2010 trespass at the Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex, but when the Judge turned to ask Steve if he had anything to say, Steve delivered […]
Michael Walli receives 8 month sentence for nonviolent action at Y-12
Y12 Resisters’ Sentencing Report [From Ralph Hutchison, OREPA] DAY FOUR • September 19, Mike Walli Mike Walli at Y-12 – July 2010 Mike Walli appeared in federal court in Knoxville on Monday, September 19, 2011 to face sentencing for his May 2011 conviction on charges of trespass at the Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, TN […]
Two Dominican sisters receive time served for Y-12 protest
DAY THREE • 16 September 2011 • Part I, Carol Gilbert Carol Gilbert, arrested at the Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in OakRidge, Tennessee in July 2010 and convicted in May 2011 on a misdemeanor trespass charge, appeared before Judge Bruce Guyton for sentencing on Friday, September 16, 2011. Carol’s pre-sentencing investigation determined her sentencing range—points […]