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Two activists arrested crossing onto Beale AFB with “Let Venezuela Live” sign

Photo by Janie Kesselman

Report Back:  Occupy Beale AFB

February 28 – March 1, 2019 

by Toby Blomé

“STANDING WITH VENEZUELA at Beale Drone Base!

2 Activists Arrested While Trespassing onto Beale AFB

On Thursday, February 28 and Friday, March 1, fed up with 17 years of endless wars, we were determined to bring our strong messages of solidarity with the people of Venezuela to one of the most important U.S. drone bases, Beale Air Force Base, home of the Global Hawk Drone and U2 spy plane, in Marysville, California.

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Sixteen activists, including Members of European Parliament, arrested at air base in Belgium where U.S. nuclear weapons are stored

Agir pour la Paix photo

Three Green Party politicians from Luxembourg, England and France were arrested with four Agir pour la Paix activists on February 20 in Belgium after climbing a fence to enter a military base where U.S. nuclear weapons are stored. After entering the Kleine Brogel base, they blocked the runway of F-16 fighter jets. The Members of European Parliament – Molly Scott Cato, Tilly Metz and Michele Rivasi – held a banner which read, “Europe Free of Nuclear Weapons”. The group was soon detained and taken into custody.

Nine supporters standing outside the base were also arrested, and authorities erased photos and videos from their cameras and phones.

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BOP moves elder Muslim philanthropist from prison medical center to freezing Brooklyn detention center

[Update: Power and heat was restored to MDC Brooklyn the evening of February 3. By the end of February, Rafil Dhafir was moved to FCI Allenwood Low in White Deer, Pennsylvania.]
Within days of his last contact with supporters on January 29, the federal Bureau of Prisons moved Dr. Rafil Dhafir, 70, from the medical center for federal prisoners in Massachusetts, into the Metropolitan Detention Center [MDC] in Brooklyn, New York.

The move comes just after a fire at MDC Brooklyn cut off electricity and heat to the facility as temperatures plunged below freezing to record lows, leaving prisoners and staff freezing in dark cells and corridors only dimly lit by emergency lights. Demonstrators braved the cold overnight on Saturday, February 2 in front of the 14-story prison, where officials have refused outside support. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted that “New York City is sending trucks with hundreds of blankets and hand warmers to the Metropolitan Detention Center NOW and generators are being readied for transport. We’ve told the Federal Bureau of Prisons the supplies are coming – whether they like it or not.”

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34 arrests at Nevada nuclear test site/National Security Site

photo by Mike Wisniewski

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.

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Buy a sub! Help support peace prisoners

MacGregor Eddy writing to imprisoned activists during a train trip

MacGregor Eddy writing to imprisoned activists during a train trip

 

No, not a submarine, but a subscription — to the Nuclear Resister newsletter,
a chronicle of nonviolent resistance to war and the nuclear threat, and a
“Chronicle of Hope” that has supported imprisoned activists since 1980.

Nuclear Resister supporter MacGregor Eddy has set a goal to enroll 100 new subscribers by December 1, 2014 – International Prisoners for Peace Day.

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Five arrested at Beale drone base on Ash Wednesday

photo by Janie Kesselman

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.

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E-bulletin February 2014

February 2014 IN THIS E-BULLETIN: 35 & 62 MONTH PRISON SENTENCES FOR PLOWSHARES NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT ACTION MEMO TO JUDGE:  REALLY? HANCOCK DRONE RESISTERS JAILED CALIFORNIA DRONE PROTESTERS CONVICTED OF TRESPASSING JAPANESE ACTIVIST’S TWEET LEADS TO CRIMINAL CHARGE —————- 35 & 62 month prison sentences for Plowshares nuclear disarmament action [On the morning of February 28, […]

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Support needed for Sr. Megan, Michael and Greg – please donate!

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?

Donations can be made through Nukewatch www.nukewatchinfo.org by scrolling down to the Donate button. After entering a Paypal account or credit card number, proceed to the review page, click a link, and indicate that the donation is for TNP.

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

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Japanese activist’s tweet leads to criminal charge

JoeandmariIn a highly political case, a Japanese anti-nuclear activist faces criminal prosecution over a Tweet she sent in July.

Mari Takenouchi is the founder of Save Kids Japan and a free-lance English-bilingual journalist publishing at savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp. She advocates that mothers and children, who are most sensitive to radiation exposure, be supported and relocated outside of the contaminated zones around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power site.

She tweeted a pair of quotes dismissive of radiation concerns – one from the CIA-funded father of Japan’s nuclear industry, Mr. Yasuhiro Nakasone, and the second from Ms. Ryoko Ando, director of the Fukushima ETHOS project — prefacing them with the words, “Common points of the 2 criminals of the century”.

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What We Owe the Oak Ridge Three

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

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.

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