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Father Carl Kabat has spent nearly 17 years in jail for civil disobedience. His most common accessory with handcuffs? By Stefene Russell http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine/December-2010/If-I-Had-a-Jackhammer/ A Howard Johnson’s parking lot. The sky’s still dark and full of stars. Eight people stand together: Two priests and a former priest, a nun, a divinity student, a musician, a lawyer, […]
We’re keeping an eye on the case of more than a dozen anti-war and international solidarity activists whose mid-west homes were raided in late September, documents and computers seized, and were subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury about alleged material support for terrorism. A newly expanded and court-endorsed definition now says that even explicitly […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
