April 2020

4 reports

  1. Peacemaking in the shadow of pandemic

    By Patrick O’Neill Blank stares. During the course of our four-day federal trial last October, that’s all I saw in the faces of our jurors in U.S. District Court in the Deep South city of Brunswick, GA. Those 12 people took so little time to convict us that it was clear they never had […]

  2. Italian plowshares activist Turi Vaccaro released from Sicilian prison

    After 21 months behind bars, Turi Vaccaro walked out of Sicily’s Pagliarelli prison on April 15. The 67-year-old pacifist was a fugitive from court for previous acts of nonviolent resistance to the Pentagon’s MUOS satellite relay station when police caught up with him at the annual NO MUOS peace camp in August, 2018. He was […]

  3. Sentencing dates set for Kings Bay Plowshares 7

    from the Kings Bay Plowshares media team, April 10, 2020 After a six month wait, U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood has set two May dates for sentencing the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 defendants, who were found guilty on October 24, 2019 for their nonviolent symbolic disarmament action at Kings Bay Naval Base in April […]

  4. “He’s Got Eight Numbers, Just Like Everybody Else” by Kathy Kelly

    Trident nuclear disarmament activist Steve Kelly, a Jesuit priest, begins his third year imprisoned in a county jail as he and his companions await sentencing. by Kathy Kelly April 3, 2020 On April 4, 2020, my friend Steve Kelly will begin a third year of imprisonment in Georgia’s Glynn County jail. He turned 70 while […]