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~ From FMC Carswell, Max Unit, by Helen Woodson

Posted on September 5, 2011

Silo Pruning Hook activist Helen Woodson is due to be released September 9 after serving nearly 27 years in prison for that and subsequent actions against war and other assaults on human dignity, peace and the environment.

July 23, 2011

Dear Jack & Felice,

48 days – and then I’ll emerge, Winkle-esque, into a very different world. I’ve always been a troglodyte and came to prison never having laid eyes on a TV remote control. Now the federal prisons have e-mail! I am not permitted to use it, but I did have to acquire rudimentary computer skills to access my address list and commissary account.

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E-Bulletin August 2011

Posted on August 24, 2011

The Nuclear Resister E-bulletin August, 2011 IN THIS E-BULLETIN: 1)   HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI DAYS RESISTANCE ROUND-UP 2)   FR. CARL KABAT ARRESTED AT KANSAS CITY PLANT CONSTRUCTION SITE 3)   FRANZ JAGERSTATTER PLOUGHSHARES IN AUSTRALIA 4)   170 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVISTS ENTER SWEDISH MILITARY SITE 5)   7 MONTHS FOR BRITISH CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR MICHAEL LYONS 6)   SR. JACKIE HUDSON, PRESENTE! 7)   NORM […]

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Norman Lowry returns to military recruiting office, then to jail

Posted on August 17, 2011

Norman Lowry

Norman Lowry, jailed twice in recent years for protest at a military recruiting office in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was released Monday, June 27, after serving nearly 18 months for trespass and probation violation after his second arrest.

A few weeks later, Lowry wrote, “After searching God’s heart & being freed from the spiritual sludge of my last incarceration, I am convinced of God’s leading to simply stay the course & continue to say my simple & small ‘NO’.”  He returned to the recruiting office on August 1 with the following statement, and remained there until police were summoned and he was again arrested.

Lowry intended to refuse to post bond, and expects to remain in jail until trial.

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Sung-Hee Choi released from Korean prison; Jeju resistance mounts

Posted on August 17, 2011

Sung-Hee Choi (front, second from right), outside the prison. Photo by Youngsil Kang.

Korean peace activist Sung-Hee Choi was released from Jeju Island prison today, August 17, where she’d been held since May 19 on multiple charges of obstructing the business of naval base construction contractors. After a series of court hearings through the summer, Choi was convicted and sentenced to eight months in jail. A two-year stay on execution of the sentence was granted, effectively placing Choi on probation for that period.

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Hiroshima/Nagasaki Resistance Roundup

Posted on August 15, 2011

Retired Navy Captain Tom Rogers, in custody after blocking entrance to the Trident nuclear submarine base in Washington state. Photo by Leonard Eiger.

Among the hundreds of meetings, church services, vigils, teach-ins and demonstrations across the world marking the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, people engaged in acts of nuclear resistance were arrested at at least half a dozen places, including the world’s largest nuclear weapons profiteer, a nuclear weapons lab, nuclear military bases, and the Pentagon.

LOCKHEED/MARTIN

The Brandywine Peace Community and friends returned to Lockheed-Martin’s sprawling facility behind the King of Prussia Mall, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 6, the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The peace activists participated in a ceremony created for the occasion: Memory, Hope, & Peace – Incense, Water, and Sunflower Seeds.

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Jackie Hudson, Presente

Posted on August 15, 2011

Jackie, joyfully subversive, at 3/1/09 Pacific Life Community action at Bangor, photo by Leonard Eiger

TRIBUTE TO JACKIE HUDSON, OP from her sisters in prison

Sister Jackie Hudson, OP – Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan, missioned to Ground Zero near Bangor Trident Naval Base, faith-filled and faithful peacemaker and organizer, strong preacher of truth, gentle and nonviolent woman, teacher, musician, plowshare activist and resister, was called before her unconditionally loving Judge on August 3, 2011.

PRESENTE!

Jackie crossed the fine line from life through death to life in the midst of her last action of many preceding it.  With twelve others, she entered Y-12, Oak Ridge, Tennessee Uranium Processing and Production Plant on July 5, 2010.  She was at trial from May 9-11 and incarcerated.  During her time in two jails she found herself in solidarity with so many prisoners who lack health care.  She suffered extreme pain and was placed in a medical confinement cell where she developed serious pneumonia and kidney failure.  Her sentencing was scheduled for September 19.  She will not appear before another earthly judge.

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Update on Disarm Now Plowshares, and more

Posted on August 1, 2011
Greetings People of Peace,
The world keeps turning and so does the machinery of madness (more on that further down the page); fortunately so do the wheels of sanity, nonviolence, justice, mercy and peacemaking.  With less than a week before we commemorate the horrific atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki I thought it a good time for an update and some reflection.
As for our friends the Disarm Now Plowshares, things are fairly quiet (for now).  Anne Montgomery has been enjoying her quiet,contemplative freedom since her release, and will no doubt rejoin her sisters down in California sometime soon.  As for Bill “Bix” Bichsel, I wouldn’t know where to start.  He is “covering the waterfront” as they say.  Not long after his return from Knoxville I got a call, and Bix was asking about upcoming plans for the August weekend, Peace Fleet, Mayors for Peace… I think I ran out of paper trying to take notes!!!  I trust we will see him this coming weekend standing strong outside the Bangor submarine base gate.

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A prison limerick

Posted on July 28, 2011

From the Summer 2011 issue of The Sower, newsletter of the Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm, Maloy, Iowa

by Mark Kenney, #14018-047

A young man went into the Navy,
He saw things that made him quite crazy
The great weapons of war,
He just could not ignore
His witness to Christ had been lazy.

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Two activists arrested in attempt to stop missile launch at Vandenberg AFB

Posted on July 28, 2011

The July 27th test missile launch by USA in violation of Non Proliferation Treaty failed!

by MacGregor Eddy

Fr. Louie Vitale and MacGregor Eddy (myself) were arrested at 1:20  a.m. July 27,  protesting the launch of a nuclear weapon delivery system from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.   The missile was destroyed by Vandenberg Air Force Base over the Pacific Ocean because of a malfunction (anomaly) .

Jim Haber and Mary Lou Anderson of the Nevada Desert Experience as well as World War II veteran Bud Boothe and legal observer Kelly Gray attended the midnight protest of the ICBM launch from Vandenberg Space Command near Lompoc, California. The nuclear-capable, solid fuel, high speed test missile was set to land in Kwajalein Atoll, in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific Ocean.

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170 international peace activists enter secret Swedish military test site

Posted on July 26, 2011

photo credit: www.ofog.org

Luleå, 26th July – One hundred and seventy international peace activists from 17 countries today entered the North European Aerospace Test range in a massive act of nonviolent civil disobedience in the north of Sweden. Some 28 activists have been confirmed as arrested or detained, among them activists from Venezuela, Spain, Germany, Germany, UK and Finland.

A total of 201 people took part in the action, which aimed to expose the hidden role of the massive test range in the preparation for wars, including the testing of new military equipment such as drones, missiles and fighter planes.

The action started at midday with a pink carnival which involved people marking the test range and the road leading to it with pink arrows and the slogan ”War starts here, let’s stop it here!”. The airspace was marked by a release of pink balloons. Over 150 of the activists then entered the ”prohibited area” around the base in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience, to draw attention to the war preparations taking place there and to place NEAT on the map.

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