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Costumed in hazmat suits and toting Geiger counter props, eight members of the Shut It Down Affinity Group with three supporters leafleted with a Can Fukushima Happen Here? brochure in downtown Brattleboro on Tuesday, April 24. They then appeared in nearby Vernon to block the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant gate by chaining themselves to […]
from Joy First Seven citizen activists were arrested for calling for an end to drone warfare at Camp Williams/Volk Field in Wisconsin on April 24. They are joining together with activists in New York, Nevada, California, Missouri, Illinois, and Maryland who are risking arrest in actions as they raise their voices to draw attention to […]
Towards a New Stage of Struggle: A Call from History Revoke the Jeju naval base project! Stop the deceptive propaganda about a civilian-military dual-use port! Stop the blasts and destruction! Stop the human rights violations! Stop pro-nuclear MD policy!
Thirty-three members of the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones were preemptively arrested on Earth Day, April 22, two blocks from the entrance to Hancock Air Base. The arrests by the Onondaga County, New York sheriff’s deputies preempted political free speech as the anti-drone activists proceeded silently and in single file on the shoulder of […]
from SOA Watch We Won’t Stop Until They Do! On April 16, human rights activists took to the streets around Capitol Hill in a spirited parade, culminating a week of trainings, workshops, music and lobbying to close the School of the Americas. Police on foot, bicycle, motorcycle and in vehicles prohibited free passage of the […]
by Jane Stoever Here’s a report on our Midwest Trifecta Resista 4/13-15, sponsored by groups listed below, from KC & beyond. Thanks to all of you for your encouragement & support! We rallied at three sites–exhausting, wondrous. Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, based in Chicago, inspired us! Some 28 of us held Bradley […]
from Sung-Hee Choi On the morning of April 12, three women activists were arrested in front of the construction gate at the site of the planned naval base on Jeju Island. Different from the days before the election when the police usually fixated people from gathering, they arrested those when they blocked the gate. The […]
Easter Greetings from Susan Crane from the Disarm Now Plowshares blog Dear Friends, Thanks for your prayers, letters, books and encouragement. Your support means so much to me. And thanks for your work that brings us all closer to the Beloved Community. I was walking back to the housing unit from dinner the other day, […]
LIVERMORE LAB, CALIFORNIA By Denis Cuff Contra Costa Times Thirty four demonstrators were arrested peacefully Friday morning during an annual nuclear weapons protest at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Keeping with a Good Friday protest tradition, some 100 to 150 protesters prayed and sang at the intersection of Vasco and Patterson Pass roads. Then they marched […]
from Sung-Hee Choi Rev. Lee Jeong Hoon got released with 1 year suspended sentence , 2 years probation and 100,000 won fine. He was arrested with Fr. Kim Jeong-Wook on March 9 when they broke the fence. Thanks to them, many people could enter the Gureombi Rock at the time. (April 4 photo by Baek […]
Press release from NATO Game Over campaign at Peace Action in Belgium http://www.vredesactie.be/item.php?id=313 Around 2:00 a.m. April 1, 800 peace activists from more than ten European countries gathered near NATO headquarters in Evere, Brussels. 500 people tried nonviolently to enter the NATO compound. About 20 activists succeeded to enter the military site, 483 people were […]
