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photo by Mike Wisniewski

from the Nuclear Resister

Over the first weekend in March, about 60 people took part in the 8th annual gathering of the Pacific Life Community (PLC).  This year the group met at the Las Vegas Catholic Worker.

The PLC is largely comprised of peace activists motivated strongly by their religious faith to engage in and support civil resistance at locations across the American west involved in preparation for nuclear war. Many are part of the Catholic Worker movement. This year, attendees ranging in age from their 20s into their 80s came from Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado and even Maine and New York to break bread with, protest with, learn from and support each other.

photo by Janie Kesselman

Five people – including members of the clergy and veterans – were arrested during an Ash Wednesday service around 8 a.m. today, March 5, at the gates of  Beale Air Force Base, site of the surveillance drone Global Hawk.

Participants, who were charged with trespassing, said they risked arrest to memorialize the children killed by the U.S. government’s fleet of killer drones. Beale’s drones perform reconnaissance work for U.S. Predator drones.

The demonstrators spread ashes memorializing those of children killed by U.S. drones overseas.

NOT WAITING TO BE ASKED . . .
TO HELP MIKE, GREG, MEGAN

from the Transform Now Plowshares Support Group

Three peacemakers are in prison.
How can I help?
Where can I send money?

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OR, mail a check, TNP on the memo line, to: Catholic Worker, PO Box 29179, Washington, DC 20017. 

Photo © by John P. Kernodle, at July 2010 Y-12 protest

Memo to Judge: Really??

From CounterPunch by Ralph Hutchison

We’ve heard it from the bench in Oak Ridge city courtrooms and from state judges in Clinton, Tennessee. And on February 18 we heard it from a federal judge—there are two variations. The first: There are plenty of ways for you to protest and deliver your message without breaking the law. The second: If you people would just put this time and energy into working for the change you want in the political system, you might get the change you seek.

Both sentiments are either disingenuous or naïve.