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Cape Downwinders amped up their campaign to shut down the aging Pilgrim nuclear power plant with a Mad As Hell Mother’s Day Rumble on May 10. “Bring food, noisemakers and all your frustrations – We will make racket” announced the flyer for the event, which began with a picnic and rally at White Horse Beach […]
The Catholic nun and two military veterans & Catholic Workers spent 2 years in prison for their 2012 Transform Now Plowshares direct disarmament action at the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex in Tennessee. Sr. Megan Rice was due out in November, 2015; Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli were due out in fall, 2017. But their lawyers […]
This news just in from an attorney for the defendants, Bill Quigley: “Sixth circuit just ruled. Defendants are to be released on their own recognizance. Immediately.” Details to follow, including confirmation of their release from prison! From the Transform Now Plowshares website Sixth circuit orders immediate release of Michael, Megan and Greg May 15, 2015 In […]
by Leonard Eiger, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action Activists Make Statement at Nuke Base: Our Children Deserve Better! Activists briefly blockaded the entrance to a West Coast nuclear weapons base in a statement against U.S. Nuclear modernization efforts on the eve of Mothers Day. On Saturday, May 9, anti-nuclear weapons activists gathered at the […]
A three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the sabotage convictions of Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed, the Transform Now Plowshares nuclear disarmament activists who were arrested inside the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex at Oak Ridge, Tennessee on July 28, 2012. They were convicted in May, 2013 of sabotage […]
