January 2023

4 reports

  1. Irish peace activists acquitted on charge of criminal damage

    from Shannonwatch January 25, 2023 The trial of two peace activists, Edward Horgan and Dan Dowling, ended today at the Circuit Criminal Court in Parkgate Street, Dublin after a trial that lasted ten days. Almost 6 years ago on 25th April 2017, the two peace activists were arrested at Shannon Airport and charged with causing […]

  2. Two women locked-on at the entrance of the UK’s Trident nuclear submarine base in Scotland

    from Margaret Ferguson Burns Margaret and Willemien, greeted by name on arrival, locked-on at the North Gate at Faslane HMNB Clyde on January 22 in celebration of the 2nd anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons coming into force, and to make peaceful protest against the UK government’s continued intention to retain and proliferate […]

  3. American Activist Enters German Prison for Protesting U.S. Nuclear Weapons Based There

    Amidst heightened nuclear tension between NATO and Russia in Europe, U.S. peace activist John LaForge entered a German prison on January 10, 2023 to serve jail time there for protests against U.S. nuclear weapons stockpiled at Germany’s Büchel Air Force Base, 80 miles southeast of Cologne. LaForge entered JVA Billwerder in Hamburg as the first […]

  4. Peace activists take on the Pentagon and its corporate outposts – Decry the Merchants of Death

    Decry the Merchants of Death by Kathy Kelly Peace activists take on the Pentagon and its corporate outposts. Days after a U.S. warplane bombed a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing forty-two people, twenty-four of them patients, the international president of MSF, Dr. Joanne Liu walked through the wreckage and prepared to […]