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On Thursday, June 17, only three days after he was sentenced to six months of federal prison for carrying the protest against the School of the Americas onto Fort Benning, Michael Walli was released from jail. Early Thursday, Michael was ordered to pack up his belongings from his jail cell. He expected that he would […]
PLEASE REGISTER TODAY! We need to provide Maryville College with a solid number to plan space and meals. Don’t miss this summer’s anti-nuclear resistance gathering to mark the 30th anniversaries of the Nuclear Resister, Nukewatch and the Plowshares Eight! Join us!! Fr. Carl Kabat, Sr. Anne Montgomery, Molly Rush, John & Carrie Schuchardt, John LaForge, […]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/10241052.stm June 4, 2010 Nine acquitted at Raytheon trial Nine women have been acquitted of breaking into an arms manufacturing company to cause criminal damage. The women were part of a group who protested at the Raytheon offices in Londonderry [sic] in January 2009.
(From the Nuclear Resister #157, June 1, 2010) February 25, 2010 How Can I Cope? Many people who write me – friends and supporters – ask about harsh treatment and brutality. I do not deny that in many prisons and jails these conditions do exist. One can even raise the charge of torture. In regards […]
IRAQ-BORN AMERICAN PHYSICIAN JAILED FOR CHARITY GIVEN TO PEOPLE OF IRAQ IN VIOLATION OF U.S. EMBARGO U.S. and U.K.-inspired UN sanctions initiated against Iraq in 1991 were the most severe in human history, and resulted in the premature deaths of well over a million Iraqi people. Dr. Rafil Dhafir of Syracuse, New York, founded the […]
Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu began serving a three month prison sentence on May 23. Details here. He wrote on his website “WHILE I AM IN PRISON, I DON’T WANT TO GET ANY LETTERS OR ANY MAIL. FROM ANY ONE.“ Before turning himself in, Vanunu made a public statement decrying the failure of governments, the […]
James Richard Sauder, who served time in prison following a series of prayerful protests in the early 1980s at missile silos in Arkansas and Missouri and Navy bases in Virginia and Georgia, was arrested again April 15, 2010, inside a nuclear missile silo near Parshall, North Dakota. He has been jailed since his arrest and […]
From Amnesty International Israeli government urged not to jail nuclear whistleblower again 12 May 2010 AI Index: PRE01/154/2010 Amnesty International today urged the Israeli government not to imprison nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, who is facing a return to jail within days. The Israeli Supreme Court ruled on 11 May that Vanunu, who served 18 years […]
by Tom Keough – May 4, 2010 NEW YORK — May 3, 2010. To bring a stronger cry against the threats from nuclear weapons at this time of the UN Special Session on Disarmament there was a protest inside of the main lobby of Grand Central Station during Monday’s rush hour. The action was organized […]
http://www.ofog.org/avrusta-campaign-disarming-swedish-weapons-export It is not every day the Svea Court of Appeal, the country’s oldest still functioning court, deals with a case on the Swedish weapons export. On the 21st of April it did. Anna Andersson and Martin Smedjeback disarmed fourteen bazookas at Saab Bofors Dynamics weapons factory in Eskilstuna. The two activists were sentenced to […]
by Steve Clemens My trials were 7 months apart, almost to the day. One was in neighboring Ramsey County, the other in my home county of Hennepin. Both were for the same charge: criminal trespass and both ended with a somewhat similar sentence: continuance towards dismissal with conditions. In Ramsey County it was “no same […]
from Kimber Heinz, War Resisters League Hi all, We’re only one week away from the May 3rd direct action for nuclear disarmament at Grand Central Station! Below you’ll find the most up-to-date version of the scenario and you can find information at http://www.warresisters.org/node/960 about the War Resister’s League’s presence throughout the weekend at the international […]
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