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  1. Court hearing for Pentagon action ends with Beth Brockman jailed on outstanding warrant

    from Art Laffin, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, Washington, D.C. The court hearing for the August 6th peace witness at the Pentagon took place on October 19 in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia before U.S. Magistrate Judge Buchanan. Andrea Eiland had her charge dismissed as did Luke Hansen, who was not present. Both were first […]

  2. Stories from an insurrectionary childhood

    from wagingnonviolence.org by Frida Berrigan October 19, 2012 Seamus Philip celebrated his three month birthday on Thursday. It was just like every other day — nursing and pooping, laughing and cooing, chewing on his hands and slobbering. He giggles and smiles and looks deep into your eyes now. He can hold his head up and […]

  3. Shut It Downers arrested for chaining themselves across Vermont Yankee driveway

    from Marcia Gagliardi, Shut it Down affinity group VERNON, Vermont — Attired in hazmat suits to highlight the danger of radiation emissions from the Entergy Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, twelve women of the Shut It Down Affinity group chained themselves across the driveway Wednesday afternoon, October 17, before Vernon police arrested them for trespass. […]

  4. Carl Kabat in court for nuclear weapons protest, gets “time served”

    By Jane Stoever Father Carl Kabat, OMI (Oblates of Mary Immaculate), of St. Louis, in a Municipal Court trial Oct. 12 in Kansas City, Mo., got “time served” on two charges—trespassing this July 4 at the site for the new KC Plant, and breaking probation from his July 4, 2011, trespass. The city earlier dropped […]

  5. Catholic Worker Brian Terrell gets 6 month prison sentence for drone protest

    Punishing Free Speech and Letting Murder Off the Hook, Justice Denied in Missouri On October 11, Brian Terrell and Ron Faust were sentenced at U.S. District Court in Jefferson City, Missouri.  Brian was sentenced to 6 months in prison, and will later be informed where he needs to report on November 30.  Ron was sentenced […]

  6. British anti-nuclear activists arrested at Hinkley Point

    from Stop New Nuclear Alliance On October 8, six protesters were arrested during a mass trespass at the Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Somerset, England. Around 30 people went over the perimeter fence of the land earmarked for two new EPR mega-reactors next to the existing power plant just after dawn.  Three people attached […]

  7. Veterans and allies arrested in New York as Afghanistan War enters year 12

    from Veterans for Peace Twenty-five people, most of them U.S. military veterans, were arrested while laying flowers at a war memorial in New York City October 7. They were engaged in a peaceful vigil to honor those killed and wounded in war and to oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan as it entered its 12th […]

  8. Rise Up Singing weekend at Faslane Trident base in Scotland

    by Jane Tallents After a busy day of workshops, singing practice, banner making and eating good food provided by Faslane Peace Camp on Saturday, September 15, we headed out to Faslane on Sunday morning to raise our voices in protest against Trident. Over 50 people spent the day singing peace songs old and new and […]

  9. Iraq war resister Kimberly Rivera deported, arrested and jailed

    (adapted from War Resisters Support Campaign and news sources) U.S. Iraq War resister Kimberly Rivera voluntarily presented herself at the U.S. border on the morning of September 20, after requests to have Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney process her humanitarian and compassionate application were denied. In August, the mother of four was ordered to leave […]

  10. More Jeju naval base resisters jailed

    In the last few weeks, four more men have been jailed for actions taken in opposition to the Korean navy base under construction at Gangjeong, on Jeju Island. On September 6, as the controversial World Conservation Congress (WCC) convened nearby in Jungmun, five people climbed onto the Samsung-made caisson dock at Hwasoon port in protest […]

  11. Property damage charge dropped against Fr. Carl Kabat; trial set for October 12

    by Jane Stoever At a Kansas City, Mo., Municipal Court hearing Sept. 20, Oblate of Mary Immaculate Father Carl Kabat of St. Louis learned the prosecution had dropped the property damage charge against him. The court set the date of Oct. 12 for Kabat’s trial concerning his trespass July 4 on the site of KC’s […]

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