Kansas City Bomb Plant Blockaders Convicted; City Council Challenged
Fourteen people who blocked heavy machinery clearing the site for construction of a new nuclear weapons factory in Kansas City, Missouri, were convicted and sentenced to fines and community service. Two of the defendants then disrupted a Kansas City council meeting, unfurling a banner and calling on the city to stop its investment in building […]
Vegas Drone Trial Makes History
Published on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 by Las Vegas CityLife http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/cityblog/2010/09/14/vegas-drone-trial-makes-history/ by Jason Whited Fourteen anti-war activists may have made history today in a Las Vegas courtroom when they turned a misdemeanor trespassing trial into a possible referendum on America’s newfound taste for remote-controlled warfare. The so-called Creech 14, a group of peace activists from […]
Eight Peace Planters Arrested at KC Nuke Weapons Plant Groundbreaking Ceremony
From Frank Cordaro: Eight peace activists were arrested on September 8 at the “Plant Peace, Not Nukes! – Groundbreaking for Works of Mercy, Not Works of War” held at the entrance of the planned site for the new nuclear weapons parts plant in Kansas City, Missouri. It was an alternative ground breaking ceremony to the […]
Disarm Now Plowshares Indicted for November 2009 Witness
ARRAIGNMENT NOW SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 8 A federal grand jury finally handed down a litany of indictments against five nuclear resisters who entered the U.S. Navy’s West Coast nuclear weapons storage depot in a plowshares action on November 2, 2009. On September 3, 2010 the United States Attorney announced the indictments handed down by a grand jury in Tacoma, […]
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Memorial Actions
The 65th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were observed around the world on August 6 and August 9. A handful of the memorial events across the United States included acts of civil resistance calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Arrests were reported at nuclear weapons laboratories in Livermore, California (31) […]
Bomb Plant Construction Blocked
Construction on the first of three new nuclear weapons production facilities was brought to a halt on Monday, August 16, when demonstrators occupied the Kansas City, Missouri site. Among those arrested was Nuclear Resister co-editor Felice Cohen-Joppa. Writing for the National Catholic Reporter, Joshua McElwee reports: “The acts of civil disobedience came at the end […]
Another War Tax Resister Jailed
Another man (hot on Frank Donnelly‘s heels), who had privately resisted payment of federal income tax, for reasons of conscience in opposition to war, has recently been prosecuted and sent to prison. With belated serendipity, Carl (Carlos) Steward learned about the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) too late to avail himself of the […]
Celebrating Nuclear Resistance
Double-click on image to view in full-screen mode (18 minutes) Celebrating Nuclear Resistance from the Nuclear Resister on Vimeo. A slide show with music prepared for the Resistance for a Nuclear Free Future gathering, July 3-5, 2010, at Maryville College, Tennessee, and the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex. Celebrating 30 years of the Nuclear Resister, Nukewatch, […]
Vanunu Out of Prison Again – Sign Petition for Freedom to Leave Israel
Please sign this petition, adding your signature to a letter that has been sent by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, and Gerry Grehan, Chair of the Peace People, Northern Ireland, to President Barak Obama, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, other world leaders and prominent personalities, to ask for their help […]
Record of Civil Resistance Keeps U.S. Activist Couple Out of Canada
Report from George & Maureen Kehoe Ostensen On July 22, 2010, we packed up our 1982 VW camper van and drove to Lubec with the intention of crossing the Canadian border to explore the coast for wildlife, to experience the incredible tides and to do some bicycling. However, the Canadian Border Patrol people decided that […]