Hiroshima/Nagasaki Resistance Roundup
Among the hundreds of meetings, church services, vigils, teach-ins and demonstrations across the world marking the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, people engaged in acts of nuclear resistance were arrested at at least half a dozen places, including the world’s largest nuclear weapons profiteer, a nuclear weapons lab, nuclear […]
Jackie Hudson, Presente
TRIBUTE TO JACKIE HUDSON, OP from her sisters in prison Sister Jackie Hudson, OP – Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan, missioned to Ground Zero near Bangor Trident Naval Base, faith-filled and faithful peacemaker and organizer, strong preacher of truth, gentle and nonviolent woman, teacher, musician, plowshare activist and resister, was called before her unconditionally […]
Update on Disarm Now Plowshares, and more
Greetings People of Peace, The world keeps turning and so does the machinery of madness (more on that further down the page); fortunately so do the wheels of sanity, nonviolence, justice, mercy and peacemaking. With less than a week before we commemorate the horrific atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki I thought it a good […]
A prison limerick
From the Summer 2011 issue of The Sower, newsletter of the Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm, Maloy, Iowa by Mark Kenney, #14018-047 A young man went into the Navy, He saw things that made him quite crazy The great weapons of war, He just could not ignore His witness to Christ had been lazy.
Two activists arrested in attempt to stop missile launch at Vandenberg AFB
The July 27th test missile launch by USA in violation of Non Proliferation Treaty failed! by MacGregor Eddy Fr. Louie Vitale and MacGregor Eddy (myself) were arrested at 1:20 a.m. July 27, protesting the launch of a nuclear weapon delivery system from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The missile was destroyed by Vandenberg Air […]
170 international peace activists enter secret Swedish military test site
Luleå, 26th July – One hundred and seventy international peace activists from 17 countries today entered the North European Aerospace Test range in a massive act of nonviolent civil disobedience in the north of Sweden. Some 28 activists have been confirmed as arrested or detained, among them activists from Venezuela, Spain, Germany, Germany, UK and […]
One thousand two hundred police descend upon Gangjeong village
July 24, 2011 Dear friend, As we write this, 1,200 police in riot gear are descending upon Gangjeong village, the site of resistance to the US/ROK naval base; 500 are from the mainland peninsula and 700 from Jeju. Last week, undercover police arrested three leaders. The village Chief Kang Dong Kyun was released, but Brother […]
~ From the Irwin County Detention Center, by Sr. Mary Dennis Lentsch
July 8, 2011 Dear Peacemaking Friends, With all the prayers and positive energy coming to me from so many directions, I feel I’m doing very well here at the Ocilla jail. This letter is being written to LaQuita with what the commissary calls a “ballpoint pen”. It is the skinny little filler for a pen so […]
Franz Jagerstatter Plowshares – Australia direct disarmament action
BRYAN LAW DISARMS MILITARY HELICOPTER For over two months Bryan Law has been telling the authorities and everyone else he was going to disarm a military helicopter during the Talisman/Sabre U.S./Australian military exercises, as an act of nonviolent resistance to the Afghan war. Friends and foes alike barely believed it possible. But in broad daylight […]
Anti-nuclear protesters fill a Kansas City courtroom
Judge Franco reveals her liberal heart – No jail time for Kansas City Plant protesters By Frank Cordaro , Des Moines Catholic Worker frank.cordaro@gmail.com Something happened in the Kansas City Municipal Court that doesn’t happen very often. A judge revealed her true self to the court, and Judge Franco is a liberal. This came as […]