August 2015

8 reports

  1. History of Nonviolent Resistance to Trident in the Pacific Northwest

    Thanks to Leonard Eiger for sending these articles. The following articles articulate the rich history of nonviolent resistance that took root in the Pacific Northwest beginning in the 1970s. The first two articles are by Matt Dundas, and were originally published in the Antiwar and Radical History Project-Pacific Northwest, based at the University of Washington, […]

  2. Five supporters of the nuclear deal with Iran arrested at Albany federal building

    This is what Democracy looks like:  Albany rally and sit-in at the Federal Building to support the Nuclear Deal with Iran from Waging Peace/Women Against War by Mickie Lynn On Wednesday, August 26, 2015, about 70 people gathered outside the Leo O’Brien Federal Building in Albany, New York as part of a nationwide series of […]

  4. Nine Peace Activists Arrested at Volk Field

    by Joy First Voices for Creative Nonviolence engaged with a number of Wisconsin peace groups to organize an 8-day 90-mile walk across southwest Wisconsin from August 18-25. The purpose of the walk was to call attention and make connections between the militarized police violence at home and the military using violence abroad through drone warfare […]

  5. Resentencing of Transform Now Plowshares trio to happen by phone

    from the Transform Now Plowshares The September 15, 2015 resentencing of Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed on their remaining depredation conviction for their July 2012 Transform Now Plowshares action at the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, TN, will be held by teleconference, according to Judge Amul Thapar. Attorney Bill Quigley sent […]

  6. From John Dear, explaining why we need to nonviolently resist nuclear weapons

    Bob Dylan and America’s 70-Year Nuclear Nightmare from The World Post/Huffington Post by John Dear A few years ago, Bob Dylan gave a powerful interview to Rolling Stone. The editor asked about his recent music, but also about our political predicament and how we got into this global mess. Dylan seemed a bit cantankerous — […]

  7. Nuclear disarmament activists arrested at the Pentagon, Lockheed Martin, Bangor Trident Base, Kansas City nuclear weapons plant, Livermore Lab and Vandenberg AFB, marking 70th anniversary of atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    BANGOR TRIDENT SUB BASE, WASHINGTON from Leonard Eiger Twelve arrests at Trident nuclear submarine base marking the 70th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings Fourteen peace activists risked arrest at a West Coast nuclear weapons base early Monday morning, August 10, in a nonviolent protest against the continued deployment and modernization of the Trident […]