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From the Summer 2011 issue of The Sower, newsletter of the Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm, Maloy, Iowa by Mark Kenney, #14018-047 A young man went into the Navy, He saw things that made him quite crazy The great weapons of war, He just could not ignore His witness to Christ had been lazy.
The July 27th test missile launch by USA in violation of Non Proliferation Treaty failed! by MacGregor Eddy Fr. Louie Vitale and MacGregor Eddy (myself) were arrested at 1:20 a.m. July 27, protesting the launch of a nuclear weapon delivery system from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The missile was destroyed by Vandenberg Air […]
Luleå, 26th July – One hundred and seventy international peace activists from 17 countries today entered the North European Aerospace Test range in a massive act of nonviolent civil disobedience in the north of Sweden. Some 28 activists have been confirmed as arrested or detained, among them activists from Venezuela, Spain, Germany, Germany, UK and […]
July 24, 2011 Dear friend, As we write this, 1,200 police in riot gear are descending upon Gangjeong village, the site of resistance to the US/ROK naval base; 500 are from the mainland peninsula and 700 from Jeju. Last week, undercover police arrested three leaders. The village Chief Kang Dong Kyun was released, but Brother […]
July 8, 2011 Dear Peacemaking Friends, With all the prayers and positive energy coming to me from so many directions, I feel I’m doing very well here at the Ocilla jail. This letter is being written to LaQuita with what the commissary calls a “ballpoint pen”. It is the skinny little filler for a pen so […]
BRYAN LAW DISARMS MILITARY HELICOPTER For over two months Bryan Law has been telling the authorities and everyone else he was going to disarm a military helicopter during the Talisman/Sabre U.S./Australian military exercises, as an act of nonviolent resistance to the Afghan war. Friends and foes alike barely believed it possible. But in broad daylight […]
Judge Franco reveals her liberal heart – No jail time for Kansas City Plant protesters By Frank Cordaro , Des Moines Catholic Worker frank.cordaro@gmail.com Something happened in the Kansas City Municipal Court that doesn’t happen very often. A judge revealed her true self to the court, and Judge Franco is a liberal. This came as […]
Nonviolent resistance to this (Australian) winter’s fourth annual Talisman Sabre war games in Queensland was anchored at a community center in Rockhampton, where a few activists have been publicly promoting the protests for months. Notably, Bryan Law regularly spoke out on the town mall, declaring his intention to disarm a helicopter during the military exercises. […]
From Andreas Speck War Resisters’ International A military court in Portsmouth sentenced British conscientious objector Michael Lyons to seven months’ imprisonment on July 5, following a two-day trial. Michael Lyons joined the Royal Navy as a medic in 2005, and in May 2010 he was notified that he would be deployed to Afghanistan later that […]
CRANE PRUNING HOOK Fr. Carl Kabat entered the construction site of the new nuclear bomb factory in Kansas City, Missouri at approximately 10:00 p.m. on July 3. At dawn on July 4 he had broken the cab windows of a couple of large pieces of construction equipment present there, and hung a small hand-made sign […]
A JOKE AND A LETTER The U.S. and Russia are supposedly allies in fighting Islamic terrorism. But they do not trust one another – they spy upon one another. The U.S. Navy Seals used trained porpoises to spy upon the Russian Navy in their naval warfare activities. But the Russian sailors kidnapped the porpoises. This […]
Fifteen women, the largest ever contingent of the Shut It Down Affinity Group to date, were arrested Thursday afternoon, June 30, at the Entergy Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. The women were charged with trespass after advocating for replacing nuclear power with solar power. Shut-It-Downers included three women in their nineties: Valerie Mullen, 90, of […]
The next court date in the continuing trial of imprisoned Korean peace activist Sung-Hee Choi has been twice-postponed, and is now set for July 15. Sung-Hee has been jailed since May 19, and has twice engaged in week-long prison fasts to highlight opposition to the construction of a naval base at Gangjeong village on Jeju […]
Press Release from Witness Against Torture June 23, 2011, Washington, DC – While the U.S. House of Representatives chamber filled for a vote today at 4:40pm, Representatives’ eyes and ears turned toward the Chamber’s gallery as a group of activists interrupted proceedings to call for the closure of Guantanamo Bay prison and denounce provisions in […]
During the month of June, police in Orlando, Florida arrested 21 members and supporters of the local Food Not Bombs group as they fed hungry people in a city park. All were handcuffed and taken to jail for violating a city ordinance strictly limiting and requiring permits for such charity. Orlando Food Not Bombs challenged […]
At the conclusion of a 24-hour prayer vigil outside the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), five peaceful demonstrators were arrested on June 20 outside the construction site of the new Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) facility, a critical part of new U.S. nuclear weapons production. Trinity Nuclear Abolition (TNA) held the vigil with members […]
