7 reports
by Art Laffin On December 29, over 50 people from the Atlantic and Southern Life Communities held a nonviolent witness at the Pentagon to commemorate the feast of the Massacre of the Holy Innocents (the actual feast was on Sunday, December 28). The noon-time witness began with a procession in which participants carried banners and […]
from Trident Ploughshares Scrap Trident Message Painted on Faslane Fence Five protesters from the campaign group Trident Ploughshares were arrested on December 17 after painting on the Faslane fence a demand for the abolition of all nuclear weapons and for the UK’s Trident sytem to be scrapped. One of the protesters, Brian Quail said “Trident […]
from the Support Dr. Shakir Hamoodi Facebook community Dr. Shakir Hamoodi was released from the Federal Prison Camp in Leavenworth, Kansas this week, and transferred to a halfway house in Columbia, Missouri. He will stay there for an undetermined time, then transfer to house arrest (in his home) until the end of his sentence. Although […]
by Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence On December 10, International Human Rights Day, federal Magistrate Matt Whitworth sentenced me to three months in prison for having crossed the line at a military base that wages drone warfare. The punishment for our attempt to speak on behalf of trapped and desperate people, abroad, will be […]
Two peace activists sentenced for drone warfare protest at Whiteman Air Force Base from Voices for Creative Nonviolence On December 10, Human Rights Day, a federal magistrate found Georgia Walker of Kansas City, Missouri and Kathy Kelly of Chicago, Illinois guilty of criminal trespass to a military installation. On June 1, the women attempted to […]
Surprise Conditional Discharge for Hancock Drone Resister Mark Colville Mark Colville, a Catholic Worker from New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced on December 3 in DeWitt Town Court on 5 charges stemming from a protest at Hancock Air National Guard Base on December 9 of last year, when he and two Yale Divinity School students presented […]
by Jack Gilroy I just spent two months as a prisoner in Jamesville Penitentiary in Jamesville, NY. I was jailed for my involvement in an April 28, 2013 solemn funeral procession at Hancock Air Force drone base in Syracuse, NY. I joined 30 others to carry the message to “stop the killing”. Hancock’s 174th Attack […]
