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from Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Ten international activists and six Korean activists were arrested today, February 26, after crawling under the razor wire at the Navy base on Jeju Island. Global Network members were among those arrested, including Bruce Gagnon, Mary Beth Sullivan, Dave Webb, Natasha Mayers, Agneta […]
The latest nuclear missile provocation came in the dark, with an unbeastly roar that pierced the chilly coastal fog in the wee hours of February 25. A shimmering light rose above the clouds and arched over the Pacific Ocean, the incomparable threat to distant enemies reaffirmed. Witnessing the latest midnight test flight of a first-strike […]
photo by Alan Gerrard One hundred and fifty people gathered at an Ash Wednesday event organised by Pax Christi and the London Catholic Worker in repentance and resistance to British nuclear weapons. The group proceeded to the M.O.D. building on White Hall, as activists broke off to mark the building that controls British nuclear weapons. […]
[CALL YOUR GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVE: DISMISS ALL THE CHARGES AGAINST BRADLEY MANNING] No date set for WikiLeaks suspect’s trial but Manning’s lawyer says he would object to any delay in the trial beyond June Karen McVeigh at Fort Meade guardian.co.uk, Thursday 23 February 2012 Bradley Manning sat through most of the proceedings at Ford Meade […]
Lending heart to the campaign to end nuclear power forever, the nine women of the Shut It Down Affinity Group brought a Shut It Down Valentine on Monday to the headquarters of Entergy Corporation, which operates the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. Each wearing a Shut It Down Valentine for Entergy, the death-masked […]
from Disarm Now Plowshares Friends, At 10:15 a.m. on February 9, William “Bix” Bichsel, SJ was released from SeaTac Federal Detention Center. According to Theresa Power-Drutis, Bix’s first request was to “head over the bridge to Bangor.” His second request was a latte. His chauffeurs went for the second request. With all the milk he consumed during […]
Update from Katherine Hughes, For the Dr. Dhafir Support Committee. On Friday, February 3rd, in Syracuse, New York, U.S. District Judge Norman Mordue resentenced Dr. Rafil Dhafir to 22 years in prison, in large part because he is unrepentant about sending food and medicine to starving Iraqi civilians in violation of International Economic Emergency Powers […]
