September/October 2018 IN THIS E-BULLETIN BURGHFIELD BOMB FACTORY BLOCKADED BY ANTI-TRIDENT PROTESTERS AFTER THREE DECADES, TRESPASS PROSECUTIONS RESUME AT NEVADA NUCLEAR TEST SITE NONVIOLENT ACTION AT BEALE DRONE BASE SEVEN PEACE ACTIVISTS ARRESTED AT CREECH DRONE BASE PLEASE SUPPORT IMPRISONED ANTI-NUCLEAR AND ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS – THE NUCLEAR RESISTER NEEDS YOU! __________________________________________________ Burghfield bomb […]
Monthly Archive for October, 2018
4 Arrested on October 30 While Blocking Military Drone Base;
Traffic Blocked at Beale Air Force Base Entrance for Nearly an Hour
BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, near Wheatland, California – Four demonstrators were arrested early in the morning of Tuesday, October 30 during a protest in opposition of the ongoing 17-year U.S. bombing campaign in Afghanistan and U.S. occupation of one of the poorest countries in the world.
For nearly an hour, traffic was backed up for a half mile or more down two merging roads as protesters – arriving in the dark of early morning – blocked the main entrance road into Beale Air Force Base, near Wheatland, California.
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Nevada Desert Experience photo
by Jack Cohen-Joppa, the Nuclear Resister
With the United States ready to burst from the starting gate in a new nuclear arms race, a recent change in policy aims to rein in any renewed protest at the U.S. nuclear weapons test site in Nevada.
On October 8, Marc Page-Collogne was arrested with two others when they stepped across the line at the Mercury gate. He was jailed for a few hours and released pending trial for trespass on December 3.
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photo by Ann Wright
Report Back:
4th Annual SHUT DOWN CREECH:
“STOP the Murder, STOP the War Crimes”
September 30 – October 6, 2018
by Toby Blomé
Seven protesters arrested while blockading Creech Assassin Drone Base…Just a week later over 75 Somali militants were killed in a single U.S. drone attack!
On Thursday, October 4, as part of this fall’s CODEPINK weeklong anti-drone protest at Creech Assassin Drone Base, seven protesters and a couple of supporters bravely stepped across the base entrance road to temporarily “halt” the cruel and illegal U.S. Air Force’s “remote killing machine” located in the beautiful Nevada desert. While holding large banners across the roadway, our voices repeatedly called out as loudly as we could muster: “STOP the murder, STOP the War Crimes……The People Demand Peace!”
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Trident Ploughshares photo
From Trident Ploughshares
Early on the morning of October 24, a group of Trident Ploughshares activists from across the U.K. converged on Burghfield Atomic Weapons Establishment near Burghfield. They blocked approach roads, preventing workers from entering.
Hidden in the leafy lanes of Berkshire, Burghfield A.W.E. and its partner facility Aldermaston are where the U.K.’s nuclear warheads are planned and produced before being loaded onto lorries for trucking up public roads to the Trident submarine fleet in Scotland. The Mearings, a private road with access to the Main gate of AWE Burghfield, was blocked at both ends by a car with two people locked to it. The construction gate has a line of five people locked across it with their arms in lock-on tubes.
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