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Federal Trial for the 2013 PLC Resisters: The Wrap Up by Leonard Eiger Greetings Pacific Life Community members and friends, Seven members of the Pacific Life Community stood trial in US District Court on Monday, October 21. They were charged with trespassing, stemming from their arrests during the March 4, 2013 nonviolent direct action at Naval […]
HISTORIC ACQUITTAL OF ASH WEDNESDAY ANTI-DRONE WITNESS AT HANCOCK AIR BASE, NY In a historic decision, five Catholic Worker activists were acquitted October 24 of disorderly conduct charges for blocking the main entrance to Hancock Air Base, home of the 174th Attack Wing of the Air National Guard, Syracuse, New York. Hancock is a Reaper […]
Dear friends and supporters of the Transform Now Plowshares, We continue to ask for your support and help. Sentencing for Sr. Megan Rice, Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli has been postponed until January 28, 2014. On October 1, we received word that Judge Amul Thapar denied the motion to dismiss the sabotage conviction as well […]
by Ray Davies, CND Cymru Vice Chair The Welsh Blockade of Burghfield AWE on October 3 turned out to be one of the highlights of my year. Our bus from Wales was full to overflowing with activists from Aberystwyth, Knighton, Cefn Forest, Blackwood Cardiff, Builth, Llandeilo and Swansea, and we had to commandeer a second […]
VERNON, Vermont—Making good on their promise to continue demonstrating at Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant until an uncontaminated green field stands in place of the still-operating nuclear reactor, on September 18 nine members of the Shut It Down Affinity Group chained themselves to the gate and spray painted the words “Shut It Down Today” […]
by Andreas Speck Early in the morning of September 2, activists from all over Europe blockaded the two gates of AWE Burghfield, where Britain’s nuclear warheads are assembled and maintained. For almost an hour, all vehicle access to AWE Burghfield was blocked, until police cleared a lock-on blockade of six Finnish activists on The Mearings […]
On September 2, Jerry Ebner began a six month prison sentence for crossing the line at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska during a December 28, 2012 Feast of the Holy Innocents witness. The base is home to the U.S. Strategic Command, where officers and consultants constantly plan and prepare for global thermonuclear war. […]
by Rachel Allshiny From Suicide Girls Blog Working on prisoner support is one of the most exhausting, transformative, frustrating, vital, tedious, rewarding, messy, wonderful things I have ever done. When someone is in prison, every moment is a crisis. Even when a specific problem or situation is resolved, there remains an overwhelming survival mentality, which […]
On August 28, the Los Angeles Catholic Worker had a solidarity arrest action for Pvt. Chelsea Manning at the downtown federal building. Community members David Omondi, Barbara Robinson and Jeff Dietrich chained and handcuffed themselves together and attempted to block the main entrance. They were arrested and charged with two misdemeanors: Failure to disperse and […]
by Jack Cohen-Joppa More than three years after the arrest and torturous imprisonment of PFC Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning for revealing thousands of classified State Department cables and war incident reports from Iraq and Afghanistan via WikiLeaks, the 25-year-old army enlistee was convicted of 20 separate offenses at court martial this summer. On August 21, […]
from the NATO 5 support blog Sebastian “Sabi” Senakiewicz of the NATO 5 has been deported to his native Poland after spending several weeks in immigration detention. Last November, Sabi took a non-cooperating plea deal to charges of falsely making a terrorist threat after being targeted by two undercover Chicago cops who had infiltrated activist […]
ELEVATING THE HOST Four times our corners of ninety The circle of charity embracing all Is unbroken with 360 In leap year take a mind leap Make your election sure To the House of Bread Christmas comes full circle When our foursquare New Jerusalem comes down from Heaven Santa Maria sank at Christmas In the […]
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