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  1. Summary of the Disarm Now Plowshares Trial. This can not be! Not now! Now What?

    by Anabel Dwyer http://disarmnowplowshares.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/dwyer/ Pray! Mourn! Organize! “Woo???!!!” This we still refuse to learn: Our legal system “protects” with useless fences non-existent, classified “property” belonging to US “missioned” for genocide from a Sister, two Fathers and two Grandmas who walk with and in love and beauty. Disarm Now Plowshares and their banner “Trident: Illegal and […]

  2. No Act of Rebellion is Wasted

    by Chris Hedges We may feel, in the face of the ruthless corporate destruction of our nation, our culture, and our ecosystem, powerless and weak. But we are not. We have a power that terrifies the corporate state. Any act of rebellion, no matter how few people show up or how heavily it is censored […]

  3. ~ From Fr. Louis Vitale, written at the Irwin County Detention Center, Georgia

    December 8, 2010 HERE WE ARE AGAIN by Fr. Louis Vitale Two weeks have passed since David Omondi and I began our sojourn here at Irwin County Detention Center in southern Georgia.  Some may say, “Vitale has protested himself back into the pokey below the Mason-Dixon line” and “He has been jailed again in an […]

  4. Veterans arrested at White House, Times Square, and San Francisco demand “End These Wars!”

    Veterans for Peace and others took a stand against war on Thursday, December 16, in the largest veterans-led civil resistance action to date against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After a 10 am rally in Lafeyette Park featuring Marine Corps veteran and Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg,  Veterans For Peace National President Mike Ferner […]

  5. Jury reaches verdict in Disarm Now Plowshares trial

    Tacoma, Washington, Monday, December 13, 2010: The federal criminal trial of five veteran peace activists that began December 7 ended today after the jury found them guilty on all counts. The five defendants, called the Disarm Now Plowshares, challenged the legality and morality of the US storage and use of thermonuclear missiles by Trident nuclear […]

  6. Disarm Now Plowshares case goes to the jury

    December 10, Tacoma, Washington – The federal criminal trial of five veteran peace activists facing several charges was recessed until Monday, December 13, after their jury announced late Friday they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on one of the counts. The Tacoma Washington trial has been going on since Tuesday. The five defendants, […]

  7. Plan actions and demonstrations now for Chernobyl anniversary

    please share on websites, with listserves, in newsletters INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR A NUCLEAR-FREE FUTURE April 26, 2011, 25th Chernobyl anniversary It’s time for groups and activists all over the world to plan protests and actions to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Each year, the French anti-nuclear network Sortir du nucleaire […]

  8. SOAW arrestees arraigned; six months in jail for two

    28 Arrested During Annual Protest Weekend Four protesters arrested and charged with federal trespass at Ft. Benning, Georgia on November 20 and 21 were in court on Tuesday, November 23.  Arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Hyles, Nancy Smith and Christopher Spicer pled not guilty.  Their trial is set for January 5.  Fr. Louis Vitale, […]

  9. Mass nonviolent resistance to German N-waste shipment

    The periodic shipment of nuclear waste from a reprocessing facility in France to the burial dump at Gorleben, Germany, has long inspired mass nonviolent direct actions, and the scale and intensity of this year’s resistance eclipsed any previous mobilization. German anti-nuclear sentiment has been stoked by the government’s recent decision to extend the lifetime of […]

  10. Hundreds Arrested Opposing New Nuclear Power in India

    Hundreds of people were arrested October 29, protesting the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) on India’s west coast.  The project is the crown jewel of the U.S./India nuclear partnership, and, if  realized, it would be the world’s largest nuclear energy park. Six huge French-designed reactors producing 10,000 MW of electricity for Mumbai and Goa would […]

  11. Vandenberg vigilers arrested again; Two on trial November 18

    Military police have again arrested nuclear abolitionists vigiling along a public highway outside the main gate of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where missiles to launch nuclear war are tested. California Highway 1 passes through the base, with the main gate actually in the interior of the sprawling installation along the coast north of […]

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