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  1. Activist arrested at Holloman drone base

    Blockaders Shut Down Holloman AFB to “Put Our Bodies Between the Drones and the Children of Gaza” – One Arrested Anti-drone activists from across the U.S. shut down the West Gate entrance at New Mexico’s Holloman Air Force Base early in the morning of April 23 for nearly an hour. The demonstration was part of […]

  2. Six arrests for line crossing at Kansas City nuclear plant

    from PeaceWorks Kansas City ‘No new nukes!’ say resisters at Kansas City nuke plant by Jane Stoever Twenty-three peacemakers resisted nuclear weapons at dawn on May 19. Our signs, made May 18, declared, “No new nukes!” and “Stop escalating nuclear War!” Why hold signs at dawn? That’s when workers come to make 80% of the […]

  3. Criminalized for Obeying a Higher Law

    from Inquest Nuclear abolitionists in the Plowshares movement have been imprisoned for bringing attention to the fact that nuclear weapons are immoral and illegal under international law. by Art Laffin On September 9, 1980, eight peacemakers, known collectively as the Plowshares Eight, entered the General Electric facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, where vital components of […]

  4. Two blockades at Lakenheath base in the UK result in 10 arrests

    from Lakenheath Alliance for Peace At 9:30 a.m. on April 25, fourteen women, intersex, non-binary and trans activists (FINT) – aged from 24 to 91 – held a blockade of the main gate of USAF Lakenheath, denouncing the deadly entanglements between militarism, climate change, authoritarianism and genocide. Ten activists were topless with chains around their […]

  5. Good Friday arrests at Lockheed Martin in Pennsylvania

    Interfaith Peace Witness Leads to Arrest of 25 at Lockheed Martin Facility in King of Prussia by Paul Magno, Isaiah Project On April 18, 2025, I stood with 24 fellow activists in a powerful interfaith act of witness outside Lockheed Martin in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. It was Good Friday—a day that, within Christian tradition, […]

  6. Holy Thursday arrests at General Dynamics/Electric Boat

    On April 17, Holy Thursday, seven participants of a Holy Week peace pilgrimage in Connecticut were arrested while blocking the entrance leading to the engineering building of General Dynamics/Electric Boat. Before they were arrested, together with the other peace walkers, they performed a foot washing in the road and held long banners that read “Holy […]

  7. 3 peace walkers arrested at Creech AFB, 3 more at Nevada nuclear test site

    During the Nevada Desert Experience’s annual Holy Week Sacred Peace Walk, protesters blocked the gate at Nevada’s Creech Air Force Base on April 16 at 7:15 a.m. About a dozen peace walkers stood in the road until the Las Vegas Metro Police declared it an illegal assembly and threatened to arrest them. Amaya Rodriguez, Catherine […]

  8. Lenten resistance at the Ministry of Defence

    from Catholic Peace Action Dear Friend, Here is what we have been up to this Lent! After moments of prayer and reflection, under the beautiful, sparkling blue spring sky, Ray, Dan and Carmel approached the front entrance of the Ministry of Defence in London on April 2. It was unguarded, with only a trickle of […]

  9. Post-prison reflection from Brian Terrell

    The Only Sane Solution… Resisting Nuclear Weapons in Europe “We still hold that nonviolent resistance is the only sane solution, and that we have to continue to make our voice heard until we are finally silenced–and even then, in jail or concentration camp, to express ourselves.” Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker, 1940 March […]

  10. Post-prison reflection from Brian Terrell

    The Only Sane Solution… Resisting Nuclear Weapons in Europe “We still hold that nonviolent resistance is the only sane solution, and that we have to continue to make our voice heard until we are finally silenced–and even then, in jail or concentration camp, to express ourselves.” Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker, 1940 March […]

  11. Seventeen arrests in NYC during protest in support of nuclear ban treaty

    On March 5, 17 people were arrested in New York City at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations during a protest in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Participants asked for a meeting with the interim U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and were refused. Others blocked First Avenue with a […]

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