October 2017

5 reports

  1. Anti-drone protester arrested blocking traffic into Beale Air Force Base

    BEALE AFB/MARYSVILLE, CALIFORNIA – To draw attention to the 16th anniversary of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, northern California anti-drone activists expanded their protest to include three major commute gates at Beale Air Force Base on October 16 and 17. October 7 marked the 16th year since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, now the longest […]

  2. Two activists arrested after mock drone attack blocks Creech drone base entrance

    Report Back on Codepink Drone Resistance Week, October 5-12 by Toby Blomé Our drone resistance presence at Creech Air Force Base this year was overshadowed by the tragic Las Vegas mass shooting incident just days before our arrival, that stole the lives of 59 innocent concert goers, injured hundreds more, and left thousands of witnesses […]

  3. Greenpeace activists arrested at French nuclear power plant action

    Greenpeace activists enter French nuclear plant and set off fireworks near spent-fuel pool to show vulnerabilities October 13, 2017 from The Japan Times MOSELLE, FRANCE – Greenpeace activists set off fireworks inside a nuclear plant in eastern France early Thursday after breaking into the facility to underline its vulnerability to attack. The anti-nuclear […]

  4. Wrongful Rhetoric and Trump’s Strategy on Iran

    by Kathy Kelly October 14, 2017 Mordechai Vanunu was imprisoned in Israel for eighteen years because he blew the whistle on Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program. He felt he had “an obligation to tell the people of Israel what was going on behind their backs” at a supposed nuclear research facility which was actually producing plutonium for nuclear […]