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Thank you for your letters, your prayers, the books you have sent. Thanks for maintaining contact with me. I arrived at the federal prison here in California, flown in with 29 other women from Pahrump, Nevada. We had been woken up at midnight to get ready to leave, and had been in shackles and waistchain […]
A PORTRAIT OF CREATIVITY AND NONVIOLENCE: RESISTANCE IN KANSAS CITY by Marcy Haugh I’ve always wanted to learn the Thriller dance. Coordinated dances with others always seem like such a fun concept! However, I never imagined in a million years that the first time I danced to this Michael Jackson song as part of a […]
TOILET PAPER by Bonnie Urfer I really want to complain about every woman in this jail receiving one roll of toilet paper to last for the whole week but I can’t because the for profit jail almost killed my friend Jackie in it’s “medical” unit. I really want to complain about the lack of toilet […]
June 6, 2011 Dear friends, From our perspective editing and publishing the Nuclear Resister for more than 30 years now, we take heart in the fact that today there are more people in prison for anti-nuclear actions than there have been for more than a decade. Of course, we’d rather there be no reason to […]
A 76-year-old nun and peace activist was hospitalized after being denied medical care at a federally contracted private detention facility. Sister Jackie Hudson, OP, age 76, who has been in prison since her conviction on federal trespassing charges resulting from her peaceful protest at the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility last July, was hospitalized for serious […]
May 25, 2011 Dear Friends, Welcome to another of America’s gulags – this one in Eastern TN – the Blount County Correctional Facility in Maryville, TN! This is day number 15 and I want to begin the journey with a quote from Jarhead by Anthony Swofford and his experiences as a Marine in Operation Desert […]
by Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Professor Yang was released from jail today. He was sentenced to one and one-half years in jail with a suspended sentence but with two years probation. There can be no doubt that the international outcry on his behalf has helped spring him from the […]
