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from the Kings Bay Plowshares The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 activists received word on Friday evening, April 26 that Magistrate Cheesbro of the Southern District Court of Georgia recommended that their motions to dismiss the charges, including the Religious Freedom Restoration Act argument, be denied. The seven defendants, all Catholics, had testified with expert witnesses […]
from The Times Record April 27, 2019 BATH — Bath police arrested 25 protesters who they say were blocking roadways outside Bath Iron Works Saturday morning during the christening ceremony for the USS Lyndon B. Johnson. The protesters were arrested around 9 a.m. They face charges of obstructing a public way, a Class E crime […]
from Palo Alto Online Man spray paints sign, contacts media, waits for police by Linda Taaffe / Palo Alto Weekly April 27, 2019 Palo Alto police arrested a 34-year-old man after he notified local media that he had just spray painted the word “Yemen” in bright red letters across the sign at Lockheed Martin’s Palo […]
from the Brandywine Peace Community LET US SEE WHAT LOVE CAN DO (William Penn, Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, October 18, 1681, A Letter to the Lenape Indian Nation) It was noon on Good Friday 2019, in this Season of Passover at the Brandywine Peace Community sponsored observance, a Prayer for the Love of Humanity at Lockheed […]
from Nevada Desert Experience Mercury, Nevada – On Friday, April 19, more than two dozen people were arrested during a peaceful, nonviolent demonstration for nuclear abolition and indigenous rights (to end the occupation of the Western Shoshone Nation’s homeland) in the roadway leading to the Nevada National Security Site (N.N.S.S., formerly known as the Nevada […]
[Good Friday actions at the Nevada Test Site, Livermore Labs and Lockheed Martin in Pennsylvania will be added to the Nuclear Resister website soon.] by Art Laffin From Holy Thursday afternoon to Good Friday afternoon, about 20 people gathered in Washington, D.C. for a Faith and Resistance retreat and public witness that was organized by […]
From Waging Nonviolence Nuclear weapons ruined my life, and I wouldn’t have it any other way As someone deeply embedded in a life of anti-nuclear resistance, I know the only way to get rid of these weapons is to never stop thinking about them. by Frida Berrigan April 4, 2019 I want to offer you […]
MESSAGE FROM THE KINGS BAY PLOWSHARES ON THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR ACTION Like most of you who have been supporting and praying for The Kings Bay Plowshares, the seven of us are very surprised that a year has passed since our April 4, 2018 faith witness at (Trident) Naval Station Kings Bay in […]
from Shut Down Creech Week-long Actions Protest Killing of Civilians in Expanding U.S. Killer Drone Program CREECH Air Force Base, Nevada – Six people – holding up bloody hands to illustrate everyone’s complicity in war crimes – were arrested at Creech drone base about 7:50 a.m. on Wednesday, April 3 as they stood at the entrance to […]
