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  1. Two nuclear resisters arrested during Ash Wednesday witness at Tucson’s Raytheon plant

    Members of the Pacific Life Community from California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Nevada and Arizona met in St. David, Arizona from March 3–6 for their annual gathering and nuclear weapons protest. Two members of the faith-based network were arrested on Ash Wednesday, March 5 during a nonviolent resistance action at the Raytheon weapons factory in Tucson, […]

  2. South Korean Catholic priest arrested for October protest of Jeju Naval Base

    [Statement] Condemning the police who responded to peaceful actions of nonviolent civil disobedience with arrest! Jeju is not a U.S. colony! Close the Jeju Naval Base that is turning Jeju into an outpost of the U.S. against China! At 1:30 p.m. on February 26, police arrested Fr. Sung Hwan Kim, a peacekeeper in Gangjeong and […]

  3. Leonard Peltier is out of prison!!

    A beautiful and historic day – This morning, February 18, at 8:40 a.m. eastern time, Leonard Peltier walked out of FCI Coleman in Florida and is headed home to the Turtle Mountain reservation in North Dakota!! He still has restrictions of home confinement, but after almost 50 years, he is no longer in a […]

  4. Brian Terrell to Enter a German Prison on February 26 for Anti-Nuclear Weapons Protest

    by Brian Terrell February 11, 2025 While participating in an international peace camp on July 14, 2019 organized by Nukewatch and GAAA, Susan Crane of Redwood City, California and Susan van der Hijden of Amsterdam and I were apprehended by German Military police after cutting a hole in the security fence and entering the airfield […]

  5. In last hours of presidency, Biden commutes Leonard Peltier’s life sentence

    From the White House Statement from President Joe Biden January 20, 2025 The President is commuting the life sentence imposed on Leonard Peltier so that he serves the remainder of his sentence in home confinement. He is now 80 years old, suffers from severe health ailments, and has spent the majority of his life (nearly half […]

  6. Activist arrested on MLK Day at Lockheed Martin

    Long-time activist Paul Sheldon was arrested on Monday, January 20 as part of the Brandywine Peace Community’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day action at Lockheed Martin in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Paul wrote: It’s Martin Luther King Day at Lockheed Martin, world’s largest war profiteer and nuclear weapons contractor. It’s the place to be […]

  7. Nuclear resister Susan Crane released after 7.5 month prison term in Germany

    from Nukewatch U.S. Activist Ends 7.5-Month Prison Term in Germany; Jailed for Protests Against U.S. “Nuclear Sharing” by John LaForge Susan Crane of Redwood City, California was released from prison in Koblenz, Germany on Friday, January 17, 2025, after spending 7.5 months incarcerated for trespass convictions and refusing to pay fines stemming from a string […]

  8. 28 activists arrested for blockading three entrances to Travis Air Force Base

    from antiwar.com ‘People’s Arms Embargo’ at Travis Air Force Base by Rick Sterling Seventy-five protesters gathered under threatening skies at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California at 6:30 am on Wednesday, November 20. Their mission: to speak out and briefly interrupt the shipment of weapons to Israel from this air base. For 90 minutes, […]

  9. 10,000 arrests demand CEASEFIRE NOW!

    From the Nuclear Resister (This chronicle of resistance was originally published in issues #202, #203/204 and #205 of the Nuclear Resister newsletter. This online version includes available updates and corrections, and was last updated on November 19, 2024.) Since October of 2023, thousands of protests and direct actions around the world have called for a […]

  10. Blockade arrest at Creech Air Force Base

    A small group of activists with Veterans for Peace, CodePink and Ban Killer Drones converged October 13 – 19 in the southern Nevada desert at Creech Air Force Base (AFB) for a week of nonviolent resistance to the illegal US. drone warfare program. They traveled from four states for the 15th annual protest at the […]

  11. 60 Days for New Hampshire direct action at arms factory

    Four women have each been sentenced to two months in jail in New Hampshire, after pleading guilty in September to charges of misdemeanor criminal mischief and criminal trespass following their November 20, 2023 direct action to disrupt production at Elbit Systems in Merrimack. Elbit is notoriously Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, with factories and offices across […]

  12. Indigenous Peoples’ Day arrest at Nevada nuclear test site

    On October 14, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Catherine Hourcade crossed the boundary line of the Nevada National Security Site and was arrested. She was given a citation for trespass with a notice to appear in Nye County Court on December 9. A short while earlier, she had joined with others in a Shoshone/Paiute sunrise ceremony, […]

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