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REFLECTION FROM THE ATLANTIC LIFE COMMUNITY RETREAT by Martha Hennessy Earlier this fall the Atlantic Life Community held a Labor Day weekend retreat at the Romero Center of St. Joseph’s Parish in Camden, New Jersey. Camden, scorned among many other great, fallen American cities, struggles to regain it’s dignity and right means of livelihood after […]
Art Laffin, Bill Frankel-Streit, Chrissy Nesbitt and Nancy Gowan went to court on October 22 for their August 6 arrest at the Pentagon. The following report is from Art Laffin. Dear Friends, Thank you so much for your prayers as we once again went before the court to proclaim the Gospel of Nonviolence. Bill and I were […]
7 NUCLEAR PROTESTERS PLEAD “NOT GUILTY”, 1 PLEADS “NO CONTEST” Seven nuclear abolitionists, arrested for trespass last August as they sat in front of the locked gate of a plutonium processing facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), will plead their case to a jury picked from residents of Los Alamos, New Mexico, where […]
Published by CommonDreams.org by Felice Cohen-Joppa The judge found me guilty. Even after I’d testified under oath that I had committed no crime when standing in front of a bulldozer in a muddy soybean field being cleared for the new Kansas City Plant, arm in arm with 13 others. On August 16, we had tried […]
Five nuclear abolitionists who entered the U.S. Navy’s nuclear weapons storage depot in Washington State in November 2009 were arraigned Friday, October 8 in federal court in Tacoma, Washington. Sr. Anne Montgomery, 83, of Redwood City, California; Fr. Bill “Bix” Bichsel, 82, of Tacoma, Washington; Susan Crane, 65, of Baltimore, Maryland; Lynne M. Greenwald, 61, […]
Fourteen people who blocked heavy machinery clearing the site for construction of a new nuclear weapons factory in Kansas City, Missouri, were convicted and sentenced to fines and community service. Two of the defendants then disrupted a Kansas City council meeting, unfurling a banner and calling on the city to stop its investment in building […]
Published on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 by Las Vegas CityLife http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/cityblog/2010/09/14/vegas-drone-trial-makes-history/ by Jason Whited Fourteen anti-war activists may have made history today in a Las Vegas courtroom when they turned a misdemeanor trespassing trial into a possible referendum on America’s newfound taste for remote-controlled warfare. The so-called Creech 14, a group of peace activists from […]
From Frank Cordaro: Eight peace activists were arrested on September 8 at the “Plant Peace, Not Nukes! – Groundbreaking for Works of Mercy, Not Works of War” held at the entrance of the planned site for the new nuclear weapons parts plant in Kansas City, Missouri. It was an alternative ground breaking ceremony to the […]
ARRAIGNMENT NOW SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 8 A federal grand jury finally handed down a litany of indictments against five nuclear resisters who entered the U.S. Navy’s West Coast nuclear weapons storage depot in a plowshares action on November 2, 2009. On September 3, 2010 the United States Attorney announced the indictments handed down by a grand jury in Tacoma, […]
The 65th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were observed around the world on August 6 and August 9. A handful of the memorial events across the United States included acts of civil resistance calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Arrests were reported at nuclear weapons laboratories in Livermore, California (31) […]
Construction on the first of three new nuclear weapons production facilities was brought to a halt on Monday, August 16, when demonstrators occupied the Kansas City, Missouri site. Among those arrested was Nuclear Resister co-editor Felice Cohen-Joppa. Writing for the National Catholic Reporter, Joshua McElwee reports: “The acts of civil disobedience came at the end […]
Another man (hot on Frank Donnelly‘s heels), who had privately resisted payment of federal income tax, for reasons of conscience in opposition to war, has recently been prosecuted and sent to prison. With belated serendipity, Carl (Carlos) Steward learned about the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) too late to avail himself of the […]
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