Monthly Archive for March, 2026

Two arrested in Texas protesting Dow Chemical

Posted on March 30, 2026
Activist Diane Wilson, executive director of San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper (SABEW), was arrested while attempting to hand-deliver her list of demands to Dow Chemical in Seadrift, Texas. She was charged with criminal trespass and released from the Calhoun County Jail after midnight. At the time of her arrest on March 26, she was more than three weeks into an open-ended hunger strike demanding that Dow rescind their permit applications to legalize plastic pollution and build four experimental nuclear reactors at the facility in Seadrift. 
On the same day, fellow SABEW organizer Dan Lê was arrested while disrupting Dow CEO Jim Fitterling’s speech at CERAWeek by S&P Global – a gigantic oil and gas conference hosted annually in Houston, Texas.

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Pentagon witness celebrates Patrick O’Neill’s 70th birthday

Posted on March 28, 2026

Patrick O’Neill being arrested on his 70th birthday

by Art Laffin, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker

On March 27, on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Patrick O’Neill, a longtime Catholic Worker, parent and grandparent, about 100 people held a special peace witness at the Pentagon, the epicenter of warmaking on the planet, to pray for peace, decry the US-Israeli immoral and illegal war in Iran, call for the abolition of all war and all nuclear and conventional weapons, and to invite people to follow the nonviolent Jesus. It was the largest anti-war protest at the Pentagon in recent years. 
Since last October, the Pentagon has banned the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker weekly peace vigil in the fenced off “designated protest area” on the southeast side of the Pentagon, citing that the needs a permit group and doesn’t have “official business” at the Pentagon, thus effectively prohibited protests on Pentagon property. This is the first nonviolent action to challenge this ban.

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France arrests Greenpeace activists blocking arrival of uranium cargo ship from Russia

Posted on March 11, 2026

© Denis Meyer / Greenpeace

A cargo ship coming from Russia is blocked

from Greenpeace

March 2, 2026

This morning in the port of Dunkirk, around twenty Greenpeace activists blocked the arrival of the cargo ship Mikhail Dudin from Saint Petersburg to protest the nuclear trade between Russia and France. For two years, France has presented itself as a staunch supporter of Ukraine against the Russian aggressor. Yet, behind the scenes, the French nuclear industry (EDF, Framatome, and Orano) continues to do business with Rosatom, the Russian nuclear company complicit in war crimes.

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Activists Arrested at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor Calling for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

Posted on March 8, 2026

Photo by George Rodkey

On the morning of March 5, more than 40 nuclear resisters of many faiths took part in a procession to the entrance of Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor from the nearby Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington. Twelve of the Pacific Life Community (PLC) activists, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, walked into the roadway to block traffic. They held signs and displayed a large banner with a quote from Pope Francis: “The Use and Possession of Nuclear Weapons is Immoral”. Some of them carried small bundles wrapped in white shrouds, symbolizing infant victims of war.

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