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Las Vegas, NV, January 29, 2011 — Marking the 60th year since the first atomic bomb was tested on land belonging to the Western Shoshone National Council, near Indian Springs, Nevada, eight activists stepped onto the land and were immediately arrested by Nye County sheriffs. The Western Shoshone National Council had issued permits for the […]
Dear friends, Over the years we have spent time in prison and/or supported other activists who have been in prison for acts of conscience. We write to you now with a special request on behalf of Helen Woodson. Back in November of 1984, Helen was part of the Silo Pruning Hooks action. She went to […]
Anti-drone protesters vow to continue activism following guilty verdict in Las Vegas courtroom Las Vegas — On Thursday, January 27, activists charged with trespass, along with their supporters, filled Judge Jansen’s courtroom to hear his verdict regarding their April, 2009 protest at Creech Air Force Base. Crews at Creech control the drones used in the […]
Georgina Smith and Helen John painted “Genocide”, “NO More War Crimes”, “No Upgrade”, “Respect the War Dead”, and “Art, Law, Morality” on the walls outside of the High Court on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile on Remembrance Day 2006. The action was a protest against the High Court’s complicity in the illegal deployment of the genocidal nuclear […]
Nearly seventy-five people gathered in front of Lockheed Martin’s Valley Forge, Pennsylvania complex in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania on January 17, the federal holiday observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. A half block long line of people, holding banners and signs and standing next to large self-standing pictures of Dr. King, chanted “the arc […]
Chris Cole was jailed for 30 days on January 19 for non-payment of a fine relating to a protest at the DSEI arms fair in 2009. With statutory credit, he was released from prison on February 2. His pre-prison reflections follow. It’s Just the Way Things Are by Chris Cole January 18, 2011 In 2009 […]
from Courage to Resist, www.couragetoresist.org Act to end the inhumane treatment of Bradley Manning Your help is needed in pressing the following demands: End the inhumane, degrading conditions of pre-trial confinement and respect Bradley’s human rights. Specifically, lift the “Prevention of Injury (POI) watch order”. This would allow Bradley meaningful physical exercise, uninterrupted sleep during […]
Poulsbo, Washington, Saturday, January 15, 2011 – The Seattle Raging Grannies set the mood for honoring Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthday Saturday at the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington. Eighty three people from the Center participated in a vigil at the Kitsap Mall in Silverdale with the help of a full […]
Following Tucson’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day march on Monday, January 17, 10 people carried Dr. King’s message to nearby Davis–Monthan Air Force Base for a peace vigil to honor his legacy twenty years after the United States began its war against Iraq. Three men – Dennis DuVall, John Heid, and Jean Boucher – […]
UPDATE January 12, from the LPDOC: Greetings, Supporters. Thank you so much for taking immediate action on Leonard’s behalf. The prison authorities have received the message. Please stop contacting the prison at Lewisburg now. Instead, redirect all efforts with regard to Leonard’s health concerns to the White House. Call the White House comment line at […]
Federal Judge sentences SOA Watch activists to six months in prison from School of the Americas Watch Once again, the justice system’s complicity with the abuses taught at the School of the Americas was exposed on January 5 at the trial of anti-militarization activists Nancy Smith and Chris Spicer. Nancy, from New York, changed her […]
Published on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 by CommonDreams.org by Leah Bolger Imagine you are taking a walk in a park and you witness a mugging. What would you do? Would you look the other way or would you try to stop it? If you are one who would try to stop it, then what would […]
VERNON, Vermont — Ringing in the new year Saturday (January 1) by bringing solar panels to replace nuclear energy at Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant here, nine women of the Shut It Down Affinity Group faced charges of unlawful trespass when town and state police arrested them just before two in the afternoon for […]
Reflection by Sue Frankel-Streit in collaboration with Bill Frankel-Streit New Year’s Day 2011, Little Flower Catholic Worker Farm, Virginia, USA I don’t know what effect hammering on a B-52 bomber actually had on the first Gulf War (other than that particular bomber not bombing). But I know that the effect that action had on me was immense; likely […]
