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BRATTLEBORO, Vermont – Rain, fog, and ice did not hamper the enthusiasm of the Shut It Down Affinity group and their supporters on January 30 as they celebrated The People’s Payment addressing more than $3,000 in fines and fees assessed for a November 2012 conviction of trespass at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in […]
Recent rulings from the Fort Meade pre-trial hearings – Bradley Manning’s fight for justice by the Bradley Manning Support Network Winter recap: torture hearings, trial delays, motive debates, and more Pre-trial hearings at Ft. Meade brought new developments for Pfc. Bradley Manning’s defense, including four months of sentencing credit, another three-month trial delay, debates over […]
As part of the Brandywine Peace Community’s noontime Martin Luther King Day of Nonviolent Resistance at Lockheed Martin, more than fifty people stood with banners and signs in front of the King of Prussia, PA complex of the world’s largest war profiteer, Lockheed Martin. Many of those gathered (just as in previous years) were from […]
8 ACTIVISTS ARRESTED Activists from a local peace group blocked the main gate and staged a die-in at the Navy’s West Coast Trident nuclear submarine base for more than a half hour in an act of civil resistance to nuclear weapons. Nearly fifty people participated in Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action’s annual celebration of […]
from Support the LANL 6 The Los Alamos Hiroshima Day Six (LANL6) were arrested together in the street in front of Los Alamos National Laboratory (see their testimonies) and were tried in the local Los Alamos Municipal Court on January 9th 2013. In the closing argument of the five-hour trial the Defense Attorney reminded the […]
[From the Nuclear Resister editors: Anti-nuclear activists in India report that five thousand people protested the Jaitapur nuclear power project on January 2nd; 2,600 were arrested and released that evening.] from World Nuclear News Mass public unease at nuclear power development has emerged at Jaitapaur. Thousands of protestors were held by police as they attempted […]
