Good Friday and Easter arrests at the Nevada Test Site, Livermore Labs, Pentagon and 10 Downing Street, London
NEVADA TEST SITE Easter Sunday Service Ends in 16 Arrests at Nuclear Test Site At 12 noon on April 24, 2011, 38 people gathered near the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). The group held interfaith prayers and then eight women and eight men were arrested for alleged trespassing onto the NNSS. The prayer-action included local […]
Persistent anti-nuclear activists in India jailed, shot by police; Tabrez Sohekar is killed
Opposition to the proposed six-reactor Jaitapur nuclear power complex at Maharashtra on India’s west coast reached new heights April 18 when police opened fire on more than 100 protesters, killing one – Tabrez Sohekar – and wounding eight others. The protesters, including many members of Shiv Sena, the opposition political party in Maharashtra state, tried […]
~ A letter from Bix (written several days before beginning “diesel therapy” to Tennessee)
After spending the first 2 1/2 weeks of his prison sentence for the Disarm Now Plowshares action at the SeaTac Federal Correction Facility, Jesuit priest Bill “Bix” Bichsel was taken out of his cell on April 18. He is being transported several thousand miles across the U.S. to Tennessee, where he is scheduled […]
From civil disobedience to civil defiance
by Ed Kinane “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are […]
British activists blockade Queen’s backyard to brand energy giant’s nuclear power bid a “right royal rip-off”; two arrested
Campaigners brought rush hour traffic to a standstill on the morning of April 11 to protest against EDF Energy’s plans to build a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK. All four lanes of the A302 outside EDF Energy’s headquarters in Grosvenor Place – which runs alongside the gardens of Buckingham Palace – […]
27 Human Rights Activists Arrested at the White House Calling for the Closure of the School of the Americas and an End to U.S. Militarization
“Tight Budget?! Close the SOA!” Hundreds March to the White House On Sunday, April 10, 27 human rights activists were arrested in front of the White House when they staged a die-in on the White House sidewalk to call attention to thousands of Latin Americans who were murdered by graduates of the U.S. Army School […]
‘Disarmageddon’ peace activists rousted out of the Pentagon
PENTAGON POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST PEACEFUL PROTESTERS CALLING FOR END TO WAR AND HALT TO DESTRUCTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT by Joy First On April 8, 2011 at approximately noon, 25 civilian activists organized by the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance arrived at the Pentagon to deliver a letter asking for a meeting with Secretary of War […]
Two grandmothers, two priests and a nun go to prison for nuclear weapons protest
By Bill Quigley Two grandmothers, two priests and a nun were sentenced in federal court in Tacoma, WA Monday March 28, 2011, for confronting hundreds of US nuclear weapons stockpiled for use by the deadly Trident submarines. Sentenced were: Sr. Anne Montgomery, 83, a Sacred Heart sister from New York, who was ordered to serve […]
Make a Joyful Noise
by Chrissy Nesbitt It was a joyful group that gathered today at Ground Zero and processed over to the main gate of Bangor Naval Base. We numbered about fifty, all decked out in rain gear and boots and umbrellas, though by the end of the vigil we had the sun come out to join us. […]
Invasion anniversary actions, Manning solidarity action lead to arrests
Following are reports from Art Laffin of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker community in Washington, D.C., about the veteran-led protest and arrests there on March 19, the eighth anniversary of the U.S. occupation of Iraq; from Military Families Speak Out about anti-war arrests in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood that same day; and […]