September 2013 IN THIS E-BULLETIN SENTENCING POSTPONED FOR TRANSFORM NOW PLOWSHARES ACTIVISTS WRITE A LETTER SUPPORTING PVT. MANNING’S REQUEST FOR CLEMENCY JERRY EBNER BEGINS SIX MONTH SENTENCE 22 BLOCKADERS ARRESTED AT AWE BURGHFIELD NINE WOMEN CHAIN SHUT VERMONT YANKEE GATE Sentencing Postponed for Transform Now Plowshares Activists Sentencing for the Transform Now Plowshares […]
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IN THIS E-BULLETIN CHELSEA MANNING SENTENCED TO 35 YEARS IN PRISON ARRESTS AT HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI DAY ACTIONS ACROSS THE U.S. GERMAN BOMBER BASE SHUT BY BLOCKADERS MANNING SUPPORTERS ARRESTED YOUR LETTERS NEEDED TO SUPPORT ACTIVISTS IN PRISON Chelsea Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison More than three years after the arrest and torturous […]
from the NATO 5 support blog
Sabi Senakiewicz. NATO 5 Support photo.
Sebastian “Sabi” Senakiewicz of the NATO 5 has been deported to his native Poland after spending several weeks in immigration detention. Last November, Sabi took a non-cooperating plea deal to charges of falsely making a terrorist threat after being targeted by two undercover Chicago cops who had infiltrated activist groups in Chicago. He ultimately completed a 4-month boot camp sentence to execute his sentence with the understanding that he would be deported afterwards since he does not have U.S. citizenship.
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Photo: IKV Pax Christi
by John LaForge, Nukewatch
BÜCHEL AIR FORCE BASE, Germany — Over 750 people converged here at the country’s largest air base – although U.S. bases at Spangdahlem and Ramstein are far bigger — to condemn the retention of 20 U.S. nuclear weapons, in open violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and in a show of popular rebellion 150 hearty war resisters blockaded all nine base entrances for 24 hours. It was the first time in 16 years of resistance to the base’s use of U.S. H-bombs by Germany’s Tornado jet bombers that the compound had been completely closed to traffic by a protest.
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July 2013 IN THIS E-BULLETIN BRADLEY MANNING ACQUITTED OF AIDING THE ENEMY; SENTENCING PHASE BEGINS FOR OTHER CONVICTIONS SIX MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR LINE CROSSING AT OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE NATO 3 TRIAL POSTPONED TO JANUARY, 2014 24 ARRESTED AT NEW KANSAS CITY NUCLEAR WEAPONS FACTORY WOMEN BRING THEIR MESSAGE TO VERMONT YANKEE WORKERS, 8 ARRESTED FOUR TALISMAN SABER […]
by the Bradley Manning Support Network. July 30, 2013
“We won the battle, now we need to go win the war,” shared defense attorney David Coombs following today’s verdict. “Today is a good day, but Bradley is by no means out of the fire,” he said to dozens of emotional supporters outside of the Fort Meade, Maryland military courtroom. Coombs expressed subdued optimism going into the expected month-long sentencing phase of the court martial that will determine how long Bradley Manning will remain in confinement.
Bradley Manning had previously accepted responsibility for providing classified information to WikiLeaks, actions covered by ten of the 22 charges. Military judge Colonel Denise Lind found him guilty of 20 of those 22 charges, so PFC Manning still faces the possibility of over 100 years behind bars.
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Update from NATO5Support: At a July 23 hearing, the judge told both sides to be ready instead for trial in early January, 2014. A final date will be confirmed at the next pretrial hearing on August 6.
(Read NATO defendant Mark Neiweem’s latest letter to supporters here.)
Jared Chase
Brent Betterly
Brian Jacob Church
On Tuesday, July 9, the NATO 3—Brent Betterly, Jared Chase, and Brian Jacob Church—had another status hearing to discuss discovery issues and three important pre-trial motions. The motions were Jacob’s motion to suppress his post-arrest statement to the police, the joint motion to dismiss the arson charges, and Brent’s motion to dismiss all his charges due to false testimony to the grand jury violating his right to due process. The arguments about the post-arrest statement were pushed off yet again, the judge will rule on dismissing the arson charges within two weeks, and the judge denied Brent’s motion to dismiss his charges. Additionally, the defense team requested that the trial date be pushed back from September 16th of this year to mid-March of next year so they can have time to review all the discovery and prepare adequately for trial.
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OPEN COMMUNIQUÉ BY MIGS (MARK NEIWEEM), NATO 5 PRISONER July 1, 2013 Greetings of solidarity, comrades and friends. I sincerely hope this communiqué finds all of you in the very best of health and highest of revolutionary spirits. I am coming to all of you with all the love and admiration in my heart to […]
Nuclear Resister summer prisoner support bulletin
Please write to judges and officials this summer in support of six imprisoned anti-nuclear and anti-war activists. Invite some friends over and sit down to write letters together, or perhaps you can include it as an activity at your peace group’s next meeting. Click on the links below for information on the support actions needed.
You can also write a note of support to these and other activists behind bars (addresses here).
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