Author Archive for jack

Page 21 of 68

Women blockade Faslane Trident base for 11 hours, link militarism and climate crisis

Posted on May 12, 2021

XR photo

Early in the morning of April 30, members of Extinction Rebellion (XR) Scotland, with support from nuclear disarmament activists from Trident Ploughshares, set up a blockade at the north gate of the Faslane Trident submarine base in Scotland.

Three women locked onto three planters they had placed in the road, which contained plants and flowers and were painted with the words “Safe”, “Green”, and “Future”. With their action, they were demanding a future safe from the “threat of nuclear weapons and environmental destruction”, making the connections between the climate and ecological crisis and militarism.

 » Read more…

~ from FCI Elkton, Prison Reflections – “Personalism”, by Patrick O’Neill

Posted on May 12, 2021

Personalism Prison Reflections from Patrick O’Neill (transcribed and edited by J. Mark Davidson) May 3, 2021 Birthday Pizza A couple of nights ago, two of my friends, Sean and Tippy, surprised me with two steaming hot pizzas they made me for my birthday! They had planned to do it back in March, but I was […]

 » Read more...

~ from FCI Danbury, by nuclear resister Martha Hennessy, May 1

Posted on May 12, 2021

88 Years Old Today         by Martha Hennessy May 1, 2021 It is May Day, the feast day of St. Joseph the Worker, and a celebration of the dignity of work for International Workers of the World. I mopped the stairs and hall in front of the medical and psychological services office, now […]

 » Read more...

Nuclear Resister issue #197

Posted on May 10, 2021

download now

 » Read more...

~ from FCI Danbury, by nuclear resister Martha Hennessy, April 20

Posted on April 27, 2021

Reflections from Danbury by Martha Hennessy April 20, 2021 The other evening there were eight deer in the meadow below Camp, playing in the puddles of rainwater collected on the worn spots of the softball diamond. They reminded me of the goats we kept in Vermont, running, splashing with their hooves, chasing one another. While […]

 » Read more...

~ from FCI Elkton, Triduum 2021 Prison Reflections, by Patrick O’Neill

Posted on April 24, 2021

Triduum 2021 Prison Reflections from Patrick O’Neill (transcribed and edited by J. Mark Davidson) April 19, 2021 Holy Thursday Excerpts from letters: “The testament of your imprisonment and continued service to God is a source of encouragement to me”; “My conscience is clear, but that doesn’t mean I’m innocent” – Sherman Lee Dillon.  ”I pray […]

 » Read more...

~ from FCI Danbury, A reflection for Easter Sunday and the 3rd anniversary of the Kings Bay Plowshares action, by Martha Hennessy

Posted on April 24, 2021

Reflection for Easter Sunday, April 4th, 2021 3rd Anniversary of the Kings Bay Plowshares Action by Martha Hennessy – July 7th, 2017 – Treaty on the Prohibition of nuclear Weapons. Deeply concerned about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences that would result from any use of nuclear weapons, and recognizing the consequent need to completely eliminate such […]

 » Read more...

Nuclear Resister E-bulletin Winter/Spring 2021

Posted on April 17, 2021

Winter/Spring 2021 IN THIS E-BULLETIN FR. STEVE KELLY, S.J. FREE AFTER THREE YEARS BEHIND BARS  MARK COLVILLE SENTENCED TO 21 MONTHS FOR KINGS BAY PLOWSHARES ACTION  FOUR KINGS BAY PLOWSHARES ACTIVISTS IN PRISON LETTERS TO THE JUDGE NEEDED FOR DRONE WARS WHISTLEBLOWER DANIEL HALE   PLEASE SUPPORT IMPRISONED ANTI-NUCLEAR AND ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS – THE NUCLEAR […]

 » Read more...

Drone wars whistleblower Daniel Hale enters one guilty plea

Posted on April 14, 2021
The week before his scheduled April 5 trial, Air Force veteran and former intelligence analyst Daniel Hale changed his plea to guilty on one count of violating the Espionage Act when he illegally obtained classified “national defense information” and give it to a reporter widely acknowledged to be Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept.
At a March 31 hearing in federal court in Virginia, Hale affirmed he had printed 36 documents on a government computer while working for a private contractor, 23 of them unrelated to his work, and provided “at least 17 to a reporter and/or the reporter’s news outlet, which published the documents…” Eleven were classified Secret or Top Secret.
The information Hale shared revealed gross human rights violations in the preparation of target lists for deadly attacks where ninety percent of the people killed were not the intended targets.

 » Read more…

Fr. Steve Kelly FREE after 3 years behind bars for nuclear abolition actions

Posted on April 13, 2021

Fr. Steve Kelly in front of Tacoma federal courthouse after being sentenced to time served. Photo by Dennis Apel

On April 13, in a brief, COVID-hybrid hearing in federal court in Tacoma, Washington, Fr. Steve Kelly, S.J. was sentenced to time served for violating conditions of his supervised release for a 2017 trespass conviction at the Kitsap-Bangor Trident nuclear submarine base. As of today, he had served the maximum six-month prison sentence for the original charge, and he was unconditionally released from custody. 

Fr. Kelly appeared in person with his attorney Blake Kremer in the courtroom of federal Magistrate Judge David Christel, with the U.S. attorney and probation officer joining via video link. Supporters were able to listen in by phone using a number provided by the court for the public.

By the time of Fr. Kelly’s arrest in April, 2018 at the Navy’s other Trident base at Kings Bay, Georgia (the Kings Bay Plowshares action), a bench warrant had already been issued for his arrest for violating the terms of his supervised release by not reporting to the federal probation office in Washington state. Entry onto another military installation and the ensuing federal charges were additional violations addressed at today’s hearing.

 » Read more…