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from Hankyoreh by Kim Yoon-ju, staff reporter Two made it atop the statue in Gwanghwamun while two others were caught while attempting to climb the statue Four Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) members were arrested by police around 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 12 while staging a demonstration near the statue of King Sejong […]
On August 14, 11 activists (two from the Netherlands, three from Germany, one from Italy and five from the U.S.) blocked the gate of Büchel air base in Germany that is used for construction work to prepare the base for new nuclear bombs and new fighter bomber jets. U.S. veteran Dennis Duvall wrote in pink […]
by Mary Gleysteen, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action Ten nuclear weapons abolition activists were removed from the roadway at 7 a.m. on August 7 by the Washington State Patrol after blocking the entrance to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, site of the world’s largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons. The civil disobedience followed a demonstration at […]
by Margaret Ferguson 10th August 2023 at Faslane Peace Camp, Scotland There were three arrests yesterday on Nagasaki Day, for blocking the North Gate while we were doing our weekly Wednesday Vigil – this one commemorating the victims of the Nagasaki bombing – extended so that we were able to support the folk in the […]
Digging For Life: For an End to Military C02 Emissions & the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Today, August 9, the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, 16 nuclear abolitionists and climate activists were arrested when they started to dig a tunnel under the fence of Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands. The international […]
BLOCKADE THE RUNWAY OF VOLKEL AIR BASE: NO (NEW) NUKES & STOP MILITARY C02 EMISSIONS In the Netherlands, on the morning of August 8, ten peace and climate activists (six from the U.S., three from the Netherlands and a German doctor) entered Volkel Air Base, where about 15 U.S. nuclear bombs are stockpiled. They knelt on the […]
