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from SOA Watch

We Won’t Stop Until They Do!

On April 16, human rights activists took to the streets around Capitol Hill in a spirited parade, culminating a week of trainings, workshops, music and lobbying to close the School of the Americas. Police on foot, bicycle, motorcycle and in vehicles prohibited free passage of the march, limiting SOA Watch activists abilities to be heard and seen by Congressional staff.

Thirteen were arrested as they tried to lead the march down Independence Avenue in front of the Congressional buildings, but were impeded by dozens of police who blockaded their passage and expression of free speech.

The 13 were released over 6 hours later and ironically charged with “blocking passage”. Read their statements here.

Photo by Jo Yak Gol

from Sung-Hee Choi

Five more people were arrested that day in Beobhwan, neighborhood village of Gangjeong, when they blocked a naval base construction truck.  One of the five was simply taking a photo but police arrested him also, saying he was a leader of the team.

photo by Karl Mondon

LIVERMORE LAB, CALIFORNIA

By Denis Cuff
Contra Costa Times

Thirty four demonstrators were arrested peacefully Friday morning during an annual nuclear weapons protest at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

Keeping with a Good Friday protest tradition, some 100 to 150 protesters prayed and sang at the intersection of Vasco and Patterson Pass roads. Then they marched to the main gate of the lab and blocked it from about 8 to 10 a.m., said Don Johnston, a lab spokesman.

The event was peaceful, and lab employees entered and exited the facility at two other entrances while the main gate was blocked, he said.

The 34 demonstrators who chose to be arrested were cited and released, said Carolyn Scarr, program coordinator with the Berkeley-based Ecumenical Peace Institute.

Press release from NATO Game Over campaign at Peace Action in Belgium

http://www.vredesactie.be/item.php?id=313

Around 2:00 a.m. April 1,  800 peace activists from more than ten European countries gathered near NATO headquarters in Evere, Brussels. 500 people tried nonviolently to enter the NATO compound. About 20 activists succeeded to enter the military site, 483 people were arrested. At the main entrance of the NATO headquarters 300 supporters cheered the intervention teams.

Bernard Pierre Wolff / Getty Images

Copyright © 2012 The Telegraph, Calcutta, India
Chennai, March 27:
The hunger strike by the protesters against the Kudankulam nuclear power station was withdrawn this evening.

Members of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, led by convener S.P. Udayakumar, had been on hunger strike at Indinthakarai village, 3km from the plant, for the last 10 days after the Jayalalithaa government announced on March 16 its decision to have the plant commissioned.
The state government had also clamped prohibitory orders in four villages around the plant and arrested 80 people for staging a roadblock near the site.