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from Sung-Hee Choi [March 31] One more activist is to be imprisoned: Mr. Lim Ho-Young, village media team leader Mr. Lim Ho Young, village media team leader who has done important media work with the nickname ‘thinkunit’ and has initiated a small peace park in the Samgeori (three way intersection) was arrested on March 29. […]
Copyright © 2012 The Telegraph, Calcutta, India Chennai, March 27: The hunger strike by the protesters against the Kudankulam nuclear power station was withdrawn this evening. Members of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, led by convener S.P. Udayakumar, had been on hunger strike at Indinthakarai village, 3km from the plant, for the last 10 […]
from Sung-Hee Choi [March 24] 17th day of people’s war against blast/ 13 times of blast-the 2nd biggest after March 21 Only a day after March 23 when the Prime Minister Office and Jeju Island government made an agreement to go through layout verification process on the docking capacity of 150,000 ton cruise ships […]
ACTIVISTS IN 3 STATES DEMAND: SHUT DOWN VERMONT YANKEE On March 22, the day after the original operating license for the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant expired, nearly 150 people in three states were arrested at protests demanding that the reactor be shut down now. Civil resistance actions organized by the Safe and Green Energy […]
by Jack and Felice Cohen-Joppa, the Nuclear Resister Despite growing condemnation at home and abroad, Korean navy contractors backed by hundreds of special police brought in from the mainland to repress local protest have for the last two weeks been dynamiting the unique volcanic coastline on Jeju Island to prepare the site for construction of […]
Protest leader Dr. S.P. Udayakumar, threatened with sedition charges, sends letter from besieged activists behind police lines. Action alert from Michael Mariotte, Nuclear Information and Resource Service. March 23, 2012 Dear Friends, Dr. S.P. Udayakumar (Kumar to his friends, and I consider myself one of them) is a longtime leader in the peaceful resistance to […]
On March 21, the last of a group of 13 nuclear disarmament activists arrested at a July 5, 2010 action at the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee went to court. David Corcoran was sentenced to 150 hours of community service, a $1000 fine and 2 years of probation. Three dozen supporters in […]
Attorney argues that prosecution’s misconduct leaves dismissal as the only option By Kevin Zeese. March 20, 2012 – Bradley Manning Support Network Courtroom sketch, Bradley Manning’s pretrial hearing Last week I spent two days in court for a pretrial motions hearing in the court martial of Bradley Manning, the private accused of leaking documents to […]
from the Shut it Down affinity group Seven women of the Shut It Down Affinity Group chained the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant gate shut at about 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 21, 2012, the power plant’s fortieth birthday and the date it was originally scheduled to close. The plant’s operating license expired on Wednesday. […]
(Photo: TEHELKA) Published on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 by Common Dreams THOUSANDS OF ANTI-NUCLEAR PROTESTERS FACE POLICE IN INDIA, 200 ARRESTED Green signal for nuclear power ‘is a red signal for our lives’ After thousands gathered in Idinthikarai, Tamil Nadu, India on Monday, March 19 to protest the vastly contested Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant there, police […]
from Trident Ploughshares Two peace activists were sentenced today in Dumbarton (Scotland) Sheriff Court for painting “political graffiti” on the walls of the court following a 2010 trial in which they maintained that the court did not uphold international law with respect to the illegality of the Trident nuclear weapon system. Barbara Dowling, a retired […]
(From VandenbergWitness.org) Thirteen people from the Pacific Life Community were arrested on Monday, March 12, as they blocked the roadway to the main gate at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast.
From Waging Nonviolence by Ken Butigan | March 1, 2012 Direct Action, by Luke Hauser Thirty years ago today a handful of us nonviolently blocked the South Gate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a top-secret nuclear weapons lab in Northern California. Most of us were sentenced to a week in the local county jail. […]
Three women painted the windows of the Army recruiting office in Glasgow, Scotland on March 1 in protest at the dishonest propaganda used to persuade young people to join up. At 8 a.m., Barbara Dowling and Leonna O’Neill painted in large colourful letters “DON’T JOIN UP. DON’T BELIEVE THE LYING ADVERTS”, “GUNS, BOMBS, TANKS? NO […]
A Lenten Call: Give Up Our Violence! Note from Leonard Eiger, Disarm Now Plowshares: This is a reflection written over the course of two days by William “Bix” Bichsel, SJ during his 30-day stay in solitary confinement at the SeaTac Federal Detention Center. Bix began this reflection on Friday, February 3, 2012, the third day of his second (four day) […]
