July 2021

4 reports

  1. Thirty-seven arrests disrupting Australia’s Land Forces weapons expo

    From late May into June, the seven-day Festival of Resistance outside the Brisbane (Australia) Convention Center was an organizing cauldron. More than 300 participants cooked up public education events and a smorgasbord of nonviolent direct actions to confront Land Forces 2021, the largest international weapons exposition in the Southern Hemisphere. Over the previous year, community organizing in anticipation of the arms bazaar […]

  2. Three activists arrested during nonviolent action at Büchel nuclear weapons base 

    Stop the next disaster before it happens – abolish nuclear weapons! On Monday, July 19, six peace activists from the U.S., the Netherlands and Germany began a nonviolent action at 11 a.m. under the motto “Stop the next catastrophe: No Nukes! Stop the next catastrophe – Abolish nuclear weapons!”. They began to dig a tunnel […]

  3. Forty-five months in prison for drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale

    On July 27, Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in prison, having pled guilty in April to one count of violating the Espionage Act. The 33-year-old Air Force veteran first spoke out publicly against drone warfare in 2013, and later shared government documents that blew the whistle on secret watchlists, targeted drone killings, and […]

  4. Why Daniel Hale Deserves Gratitude, Not Prison, by Kathy Kelly

    The whistleblower acted on behalf of the public’s right to know what is being done in its name. by Kathy Kelly July 6, 2021 “Pardon Daniel Hale.” These words hung in the air on a recent Saturday evening, projected onto several Washington, D.C. buildings, above the face of a courageous whistleblower facing ten years in […]