Two reflections from May’s Midwest Catholic Worker resistance retreat & action at the Kansas City Plant
A PORTRAIT OF CREATIVITY AND NONVIOLENCE: RESISTANCE IN KANSAS CITY by Marcy Haugh I’ve always wanted to learn the Thriller dance. Coordinated dances with others always seem like such a fun concept! However, I never imagined in a million years that the first time I danced to this Michael Jackson song as part of a […]
~ From the Irwin County Detention Center, Georgia, by Bonnie Urfer
TOILET PAPER by Bonnie Urfer I really want to complain about every woman in this jail receiving one roll of toilet paper to last for the whole week but I can’t because the for profit jail almost killed my friend Jackie in it’s “medical” unit. I really want to complain about the lack of toilet […]
The Nuclear Resister needs funds – please help!
June 6, 2011 Dear friends, From our perspective editing and publishing the Nuclear Resister for more than 30 years now, we take heart in the fact that today there are more people in prison for anti-nuclear actions than there have been for more than a decade. Of course, we’d rather there be no reason to […]
Jackie Hudson goes from jail to hospital
A 76-year-old nun and peace activist was hospitalized after being denied medical care at a federally contracted private detention facility. Sister Jackie Hudson, OP, age 76, who has been in prison since her conviction on federal trespassing charges resulting from her peaceful protest at the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility last July, was hospitalized for serious […]
~ From the Blount County Correctional Facility, TN, by Carol Gilbert, O.P.
May 25, 2011 Dear Friends, Welcome to another of America’s gulags – this one in Eastern TN – the Blount County Correctional Facility in Maryville, TN! This is day number 15 and I want to begin the journey with a quote from Jarhead by Anthony Swofford and his experiences as a Marine in Operation Desert […]
Yang sprung from jail by growing pressure on South Korean government
by Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Professor Yang was released from jail today. He was sentenced to one and one-half years in jail with a suspended sentence but with two years probation. There can be no doubt that the international outcry on his behalf has helped spring him from the […]
Over two thousand six hundred activists arrested in U.S. protests
From Common Dreams by Bill Quigley Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand six hundred arrests of activists protesting in the U.S. Research shows over 670 people have been arrested in protests inside the U.S. already in 2011, over 1290 were arrested in 2010, and 665 arrested in 2009. These figures […]
U.S. base foes on hunger strike in Korean jail
On Jeju Island, South Korea, a jailed local opponent of a new U.S. navy base is in his 53rd day of a hunger strike. Korea’s most prominent film critic, University professor Yang Yoon-Mo, was arrested April 6 as he and other residents of Gangjeong village disrupted construction by locking themselves under the earth moving equipment. […]
Y12 nuclear resisters jail update and final trial report
June 3 update to this post: Bonnie Urfer, Sr. Jackie Hudson, Sr. Carol Gilbert, Sr. Ardeth Platte, Jean Gump and Steve Baggarly were moved on May 28 to the Irwin County (Georgia) Detention Center, a private prison under contract with the federal government. For all the prisoners’ current addresses, please see Inside & Out. […]
Seven nuclear resisters in federal custody after 12 are convicted of trespass at Y-12 nuclear weapons complex
May 11, 2011 by John LaForge, Nukewatch DISARMAMENT ACTIVISTS CONVICTED IN KNOXVILLE FEDERAL COURT KNOXVILLE, TN Twelve disarmament activists were convicted of federal trespass following a three-day jury trial in U.S. District court here during which the activists — under an order issued earlier by the court which effectively stripped the defendants of any substantive […]