February 2013

5 reports

  1. Ten days in prison for Vandenberg Air Force Base backcountry action

    On February 21, L.A. Catholic Worker Theo Kayser appeared in federal court in Santa Barbara, California.  He pled guilty to trespass for his backcountry action at Vandenberg Air Force Base on October 22 and was sentenced to 10 days in prison.  Kayser will begin his sentence on February 25. His court statement: Upon receiving a […]

  2. ~ from FPC Yankton, by Brian Terrell

    Dear Friends, Greetings from the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota! As of this writing, I am two months into a six month sentence imposed due to my protest of war crimes committed by remote control from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri against the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

  3. Nine Arrested on Ash Wednesday at Hancock Air Base

    from Upstate Drone Action Around 3:30 p.m. on February 13, Ash Wednesday, 9 individuals were arrested by DeWitt Police and Onondaga County Sheriffs for peaceably blocking the main entrance to Hancock Air Base on East Molloy Rd. in the town of DeWitt, a Syracuse, NY suburb.  Hancock is the regional hub for the hunter/killer Reaper […]

  4. Two women arrested at Faslane Trident base

    Peace Activists Target UK’s Nuclear Hypocrisy In the early hours of Monday, 3rd February, two peace activists – Sylvia Boyes and Mary Millington – were arrested attempting to enter Faslane, home to the UK’s nuclear submarines.  They were charged with criminal damage for cutting the fence and spraypainting, and released. Their action comes a week […]

  5. Yang Yoon-Mo starts a hunger strike at beginning of 18 month jail sentence

    Source: Paco Booyah From savejejunow.org Yang Yoon-Mo, a movie critic, was arrested directly from the court Yang Yoon-Mo, a movie critic and one of the prominent opponents against the Jeju naval base project was directly arrested and jailed  from the court on Feb. 1, 2013 . It is his 4th time imprisonment. He is the […]