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From the Nuclear Resister

(This chronicle of resistance was originally published in issues #202, #203/204 and #205 of the Nuclear Resister newsletter. This online version includes available updates and corrections, and was last updated on November 19, 2024.)

Since October of 2023, thousands of protests and direct actions around the world have called for a ceasefire and end to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In this day-by-day record of dissent, the Nuclear Resister has chronicled more than 10,000 arrests (and counting) in the U.S. and Canada on over 425 occasions across more than 140 cities and towns in 37 states and 5 provinces. More than one third of those have occurred on the campus of at least 70 colleges and universities. It marks the largest surge of anti-war arrests since mid-April, 2003, when the Nuclear Resister reported over 7,500 anti-war arrests in the U.S. alone in the lead-up to and first weeks of the second U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Tri-Valley CAREs photo of Karen Topakian

from Tri-Valley CAREs

Activists Solemnly Gather for “Back to the Brink” Event Commemorating the Bombing of Hiroshima

by Scott Yundt 

Around 100 people gathered at the Westgate entrance to Livermore Lab on the morning of Tuesday, August 6, 2024 to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The theme of the event was Back from the Brink: the imperative of nuclear abolition. A wonderful slate of speakers provided compelling insights and actions for the engaged audience. These speakers included Maylene Hughes – Back from the Brink Campaign and Physicians for Social Responsibility, Scott Yundt – Tri-Valley CAREs, Norman Solomon – journalist and author, Patricia Ellsberg – social activist and wife of Daniel Ellsberg, Hideaki Ito – director of the documentary film Silent Fallout, and Reverend Monica Cross – CA Poor Peoples Campaign. Participants were then led in a Japanese Tradition of Bon, performing symbolic dance steps in the road to remember the nearly quarter million dead of 79 years ago. Lastly 23 people took part in nonviolent civil disobedience by blocking the gate to the Lab after the Police issued the call to disperse. These protestors were cited and released.