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  1. Celebrating Nuclear Resistance

    Double-click on image to view in full-screen mode (18 minutes) Celebrating Nuclear Resistance from the Nuclear Resister on Vimeo. A slide show with music prepared for the Resistance for a Nuclear Free Future gathering, July 3-5, 2010, at Maryville College, Tennessee, and the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex. Celebrating 30 years of the Nuclear Resister, Nukewatch, […]

  2. Vanunu Out of Prison Again – Sign Petition for Freedom to Leave Israel

    Please sign this petition, adding your signature to a letter that has been sent by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, and Gerry Grehan, Chair of the Peace People, Northern Ireland, to President Barak Obama, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, other world leaders and prominent personalities, to ask for their help […]

  3. Record of Civil Resistance Keeps U.S. Activist Couple Out of Canada

    Report from George & Maureen Kehoe Ostensen On July 22, 2010, we packed up our 1982 VW camper van and drove to Lubec with the intention of crossing the Canadian border to explore the coast for wildlife, to experience the incredible tides and to do some bicycling. However, the Canadian Border Patrol people decided that […]

  4. War Tax Resister Reports to Federal Prison

    (From Larry Dansinger, Maine War Tax Resource Center, via NWTRCC.org) About 40-50 people rallied in Bangor, Maine, in support of war tax resister Frank Donnelly on June 14, 2010. Donnelly, who had pled guilty in 2009 to tax fraud, appeared in court and was sentenced to one year and one day in prison. He self-reported […]

  5. ~ from Skenäs Prison, Sweden, by Martin Smedjeback

    SERVING TIME FOR PEACE IN SWEDEN 17th of June, 2010 I am led into the central office of the prison Skenäs outside of Norrköping. Two guards help me to carry my stuff.  “It looks like you are moving in here!” says one guard. “That’s exactly what I am doing, temporary anyway,” says I. “Do you […]

  6. Louis Vitale, Richard Sauder both out of jail

    Fr. Louis Vitale completed a six month prison sentence for trespass at Ft. Benning, Georgia, on Friday, July 23.  He walked out of the federal prison at Lompoc, California. Read about Vitale’s November 2009 arrest here. Also on July 23, Richard Sauder was convicted in federal court in Minot, North Dakota, of trespassing at a […]

  7. British War Refuser Joe Glenton Released

    Read the full report and view an interview with Joe at  www.counterfire.org Joe Glenton, the soldier who refused to return to fight in Afghanistan and who spoke out against the war, was released from military prison yesterday. He was greeted by around 30 supporters and dozens of reporters outside the Military Corrective Training Centre in […]

  8. EDO Decommissioners Acquitted; Elijah Smith Released

    (from smashedo.org.uk) Elijah Smith, decommissioner of EDO MBM/ITT, is free after a year and a half in Jail. Well Done Elijah! All Decommissioners acquitted -Resisting War Crimes is Officially not a Crime The EDO Decommissioners have all walked free after unanimous acquittals following the three week trial which concluded on Friday (2nd July) at Hove […]

  9. Igor Sutyagin Freed in “Spy” Swap

    After serving more than ten years of a 15-year sentence for espionage, Russian arms researcher Igor Sutyagin was freed today in what is being reported as the largest spy swap between the United States and Russia since the end of the Cold War. Sutyagin was not a spy, but reportedly shared sensitive information about Russian […]

  10. Protesters Arrested at Nuke-Parts Plant in Kansas City

    Published on Sunday, June 20, 2010 by CommonDreams.org by Jane Stoever and Ann Suellentrop The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City Plant, managed by Honeywell to help make nuclear weapons, became the scene of civil disobedience for the first time June 18. Four people were arrested when they blocked the employees’ entrance to the plant, […]

  11. Twenty-Four Anti-Torture Activists Acquitted

    On Monday, June 14, twenty-four activists with Witness Against Torture were acquitted in Washington, D.C. Superior Court of charges of “unlawful entry with disorderly conduct.” The charges stemmed from demonstrations at the US Capitol on January 21,2010 – the date by which President Obama had promised the closure of the Guantanamo detention camp. Defendant Joy […]

  12. Bonhoeffer Four trial – not guilty!

    At 6am on March 31, two people used boogy boards to paddle to the Swan Island SAS base near Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia, while two others blocked the main entrance. Once there they pushed the emergency stop button for the main Satellite Communications  dish, and closed the base for the day. It is believed they were […]

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