5 reports
from Nukewatch LUCK, Wisconsin – A U.S. peace activist from Luck, Wisconsin has been ordered by a German court to serve 50 days in jail there after he refused to pay 600 Euros in fines for two trespass convictions stemming from protests against the U.S. nuclear weapons stationed at Germany’s Büchel Air Base, 80 miles […]
from Büchel17 Press Releases Incarcerated for action against nuclear weapons – “War Destroys Future” On August 17, Holger Isabelle Jänicke, movement worker and head of the legal aid office in Hamburg, Germany, started a 30-day substitute prison sentence in the JVA Billwerder/Hamburg correctional facility. On April 30, 2019, seventeen peace activists from all over Germany broke through […]
from Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action Approximately 40 people were present on August 8th at a flash mob demonstration against Trident nuclear weapons at the Bangor submarine base. The demonstration was in the roadway, and blocked traffic entering the Main Gate of the Trident nuclear submarine base during rush hour traffic. Thirteen demonstrators were […]
Roman Catholic priest and decades-long Plowshares activist and nuclear resister, Fr. Carl Kabat, OMI, died on August 4, 2022 at age 88. We met Carl for the first time in 1983 while in line to be searched at the D.C. Jail to visit Helen Woodson – we were on our way in just as he was leaving after visiting with her. It was […]
from Ed Hedemann On August 2, for almost four hours on a sunny and rather hot Tuesday, the NYC War Resisters League along with several other peace, social justice and environmental organizations were part of a nonviolent sit-in at the U.S. Mission during the second day of the U.N.’s month-long Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference. […]
