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  1. Ten days in prison for Vandenberg Air Force Base backcountry action

    On February 21, L.A. Catholic Worker Theo Kayser appeared in federal court in Santa Barbara, California.  He pled guilty to trespass for his backcountry action at Vandenberg Air Force Base on October 22 and was sentenced to 10 days in prison.  Kayser will begin his sentence on February 25. His court statement: Upon receiving a […]

  2. ~ from FPC Yankton, by Brian Terrell

    Dear Friends, Greetings from the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota! As of this writing, I am two months into a six month sentence imposed due to my protest of war crimes committed by remote control from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri against the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

  3. Nine Arrested on Ash Wednesday at Hancock Air Base

    from Upstate Drone Action Around 3:30 p.m. on February 13, Ash Wednesday, 9 individuals were arrested by DeWitt Police and Onondaga County Sheriffs for peaceably blocking the main entrance to Hancock Air Base on East Molloy Rd. in the town of DeWitt, a Syracuse, NY suburb.  Hancock is the regional hub for the hunter/killer Reaper […]

  4. Two women arrested at Faslane Trident base

    Peace Activists Target UK’s Nuclear Hypocrisy In the early hours of Monday, 3rd February, two peace activists – Sylvia Boyes and Mary Millington – were arrested attempting to enter Faslane, home to the UK’s nuclear submarines.  They were charged with criminal damage for cutting the fence and spraypainting, and released. Their action comes a week […]

  5. Yang Yoon-Mo starts a hunger strike at beginning of 18 month jail sentence

    Source: Paco Booyah From savejejunow.org Yang Yoon-Mo, a movie critic, was arrested directly from the court Yang Yoon-Mo, a movie critic and one of the prominent opponents against the Jeju naval base project was directly arrested and jailed  from the court on Feb. 1, 2013 . It is his 4th time imprisonment. He is the […]

  6. Anti-nuclear activists block gate at Entergy headquarters

    BRATTLEBORO, Vermont – Rain, fog, and ice did not hamper the enthusiasm of the Shut It Down Affinity group and their supporters on January 30 as they celebrated The People’s Payment addressing more than $3,000 in fines and fees assessed for a November 2012 conviction of trespass at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in […]

  7. Bradley Manning trial delayed until June

    Recent rulings from the Fort Meade pre-trial hearings – Bradley Manning’s fight for justice by the Bradley Manning Support Network Winter recap: torture hearings, trial delays, motive debates, and more Pre-trial hearings at Ft. Meade brought new developments for Pfc. Bradley Manning’s defense, including four months of sentencing credit, another three-month trial delay, debates over […]

  8. Die-in at Bangor nuclear sub base honors Martin Luther King, Jr.

    8 ACTIVISTS ARRESTED Activists from a local peace group blocked the main gate and staged a die-in at the Navy’s West Coast Trident nuclear submarine base for more than a half hour in an act of civil resistance to nuclear weapons. Nearly fifty people participated in Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action’s annual celebration of […]

  9. Six Los Alamos protesters convicted on two counts

    from Support the LANL 6 The Los Alamos Hiroshima Day Six (LANL6) were arrested together in the street in front of Los Alamos National Laboratory (see their testimonies) and were tried in the local Los Alamos Municipal Court on January 9th 2013. In the closing argument of the five-hour trial the Defense Attorney reminded the […]

  10. Thousands protest the Jaitapur nuclear power project; many arrested

    [From the Nuclear Resister editors:  Anti-nuclear activists in India report that five thousand people protested the Jaitapur nuclear power project on January 2nd; 2,600 were arrested and released that evening.] from World Nuclear News Mass public unease at nuclear power development has emerged at Jaitapaur. Thousands of protestors were held by police as they attempted […]

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