REGISTER NOW! for Resistance for a Nuclear-Free Future
PLEASE REGISTER TODAY! We need to provide Maryville College with a solid number to plan space and meals. Don’t miss this summer’s anti-nuclear resistance gathering to mark the 30th anniversaries of the Nuclear Resister, Nukewatch and the Plowshares Eight! Join us!! Fr. Carl Kabat, Sr. Anne Montgomery, Molly Rush, John & Carrie Schuchardt, John LaForge, […]
Raytheon Action Acquittal in Northern Ireland!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/10241052.stm June 4, 2010 Nine acquitted at Raytheon trial Nine women have been acquitted of breaking into an arms manufacturing company to cause criminal damage. The women were part of a group who protested at the Raytheon offices in Londonderry [sic] in January 2009.
~ from Lompoc, California, by Fr. Louie Vitale, OFM
(From the Nuclear Resister #157, June 1, 2010) February 25, 2010 How Can I Cope? Many people who write me – friends and supporters – ask about harsh treatment and brutality. I do not deny that in many prisons and jails these conditions do exist. One can even raise the charge of torture. In regards […]
Sign Petition to Free Dr. Rafil Dhafir
IRAQ-BORN AMERICAN PHYSICIAN JAILED FOR CHARITY GIVEN TO PEOPLE OF IRAQ IN VIOLATION OF U.S. EMBARGO U.S. and U.K.-inspired UN sanctions initiated against Iraq in 1991 were the most severe in human history, and resulted in the premature deaths of well over a million Iraqi people. Dr. Rafil Dhafir of Syracuse, New York, founded the […]
Vanunu Begins Prison Sentence
Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu began serving a three month prison sentence on May 23. Details here. He wrote on his website “WHILE I AM IN PRISON, I DON’T WANT TO GET ANY LETTERS OR ANY MAIL. FROM ANY ONE.“ Before turning himself in, Vanunu made a public statement decrying the failure of governments, the […]
Missile Silo Protest Veteran Arrested Again, Jailed Pending Trial
James Richard Sauder, who served time in prison following a series of prayerful protests in the early 1980s at missile silos in Arkansas and Missouri and Navy bases in Virginia and Georgia, was arrested again April 15, 2010, inside a nuclear missile silo near Parshall, North Dakota. He has been jailed since his arrest and […]
Vanunu Sentenced to Three Months in Prison
From Amnesty International Israeli government urged not to jail nuclear whistleblower again 12 May 2010 AI Index: PRE01/154/2010 Amnesty International today urged the Israeli government not to imprison nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, who is facing a return to jail within days. The Israeli Supreme Court ruled on 11 May that Vanunu, who served 18 years […]
Twenty-two Arrested At Grand Central Die-In
by Tom Keough – May 4, 2010 NEW YORK — May 3, 2010. To bring a stronger cry against the threats from nuclear weapons at this time of the UN Special Session on Disarmament there was a protest inside of the main lobby of Grand Central Station during Monday’s rush hour. The action was organized […]
Trial and Sentencing for Swedish Weapons Disarmers
http://www.ofog.org/avrusta-campaign-disarming-swedish-weapons-export It is not every day the Svea Court of Appeal, the country’s oldest still functioning court, deals with a case on the Swedish weapons export. On the 21st of April it did. Anna Andersson and Martin Smedjeback disarmed fourteen bazookas at Saab Bofors Dynamics weapons factory in Eskilstuna. The two activists were sentenced to […]
A Difference Between Night and Day: A Tale of Two Judges
by Steve Clemens My trials were 7 months apart, almost to the day. One was in neighboring Ramsey County, the other in my home county of Hennepin. Both were for the same charge: criminal trespass and both ended with a somewhat similar sentence: continuance towards dismissal with conditions. In Ramsey County it was “no same […]