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Greetings Disarm Now Plowshares Supporters! In just over one month our dear Disarm Now Plowshares 5 – Anne, Bix, Lynne, Steve and Susan – will walk into the Union Station Courthouse in Tacoma once more, this time to face sentencing following their conviction resulting from their November 2009 Plowshares action.
Mark Kenney was sentenced to a six month prison term on February 25, for stepping across the line at Offutt Air Force Base. The Nagasaki Day (August 9) demonstration was part of an annual vigil and protest at the home of the U.S. Strategic Command, overseer of the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal. Federal Magistrate Judge […]
Anti-Trident Woman Released Early from Prison Eight-one year old Georgina Smith was released yesterday from Cornton Vale Womens Prison ten days early after an anonymous benefactor paid the compensation order she had refused to pay. Upon release Georgina said “I am fine. I’m not a frail old granny. Anti-nuclear people don’t fade away as soon […]
Sixty-seven year old Sylvia Boyes, a Quaker from Keighley, appeared today at Bingley Magistrates Court. She was sentenced to 14 days in New Hall Prison for refusing to pay fines arising from a series of protests against Trident in and around Faslane Naval Base in Scotland during the summer of 2009. Boyes is the third […]
Felton Davis of the New York Catholic Worker has put together a special collection of articles from the Catholic Worker newspaper, appearing between 1955 and 1961, dealing with nuclear weapons and the threat of all-out war. Davis writes that he believes the deceased writers “would all be rolling over in their graves,” to see William […]
