SOAW arrestees arraigned; six months in jail for two
28 Arrested During Annual Protest Weekend Four protesters arrested and charged with federal trespass at Ft. Benning, Georgia on November 20 and 21 were in court on Tuesday, November 23. Arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Hyles, Nancy Smith and Christopher Spicer pled not guilty. Their trial is set for January 5. Fr. Louis Vitale, […]
Mass nonviolent resistance to German N-waste shipment
The periodic shipment of nuclear waste from a reprocessing facility in France to the burial dump at Gorleben, Germany, has long inspired mass nonviolent direct actions, and the scale and intensity of this year’s resistance eclipsed any previous mobilization. German anti-nuclear sentiment has been stoked by the government’s recent decision to extend the lifetime of […]
Hundreds Arrested Opposing New Nuclear Power in India
Hundreds of people were arrested October 29, protesting the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) on India’s west coast. The project is the crown jewel of the U.S./India nuclear partnership, and, if realized, it would be the world’s largest nuclear energy park. Six huge French-designed reactors producing 10,000 MW of electricity for Mumbai and Goa would […]
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Vandenberg vigilers arrested again; Two on trial November 18
Military police have again arrested nuclear abolitionists vigiling along a public highway outside the main gate of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where missiles to launch nuclear war are tested. California Highway 1 passes through the base, with the main gate actually in the interior of the sprawling installation along the coast north of […]
Where will we find our strength to go on?
REFLECTION FROM THE ATLANTIC LIFE COMMUNITY RETREAT by Martha Hennessy Earlier this fall the Atlantic Life Community held a Labor Day weekend retreat at the Romero Center of St. Joseph’s Parish in Camden, New Jersey. Camden, scorned among many other great, fallen American cities, struggles to regain it’s dignity and right means of livelihood after […]
Trial for Hiroshima Day arrests at Pentagon
Art Laffin, Bill Frankel-Streit, Chrissy Nesbitt and Nancy Gowan went to court on October 22 for their August 6 arrest at the Pentagon. The following report is from Art Laffin. Dear Friends, Thank you so much for your prayers as we once again went before the court to proclaim the Gospel of Nonviolence. Bill and I were […]
Nuclear abolitionists to face Los Alamos trial on February 8
7 NUCLEAR PROTESTERS PLEAD “NOT GUILTY”, 1 PLEADS “NO CONTEST” Seven nuclear abolitionists, arrested for trespass last August as they sat in front of the locked gate of a plutonium processing facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), will plead their case to a jury picked from residents of Los Alamos, New Mexico, where […]
Upholding International Law in a Muddy Kansas City Soybean Field
Published by CommonDreams.org by Felice Cohen-Joppa The judge found me guilty. Even after I’d testified under oath that I had committed no crime when standing in front of a bulldozer in a muddy soybean field being cleared for the new Kansas City Plant, arm in arm with 13 others. On August 16, we had tried […]
Disarm Now Plowshares Arraigned; Trial Set for December 7
Five nuclear abolitionists who entered the U.S. Navy’s nuclear weapons storage depot in Washington State in November 2009 were arraigned Friday, October 8 in federal court in Tacoma, Washington. Sr. Anne Montgomery, 83, of Redwood City, California; Fr. Bill “Bix” Bichsel, 82, of Tacoma, Washington; Susan Crane, 65, of Baltimore, Maryland; Lynne M. Greenwald, 61, […]