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© Nicolas Chauveau / Greenpeace
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At dawn on Monday, May 2, Greenpeace activists began blocking the construction of the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) under construction at Flamanville, France. Two trucks were anchored to the ground, blockading the entrance carrying activists. More activists scaled four cranes, attempting to impede further construction work at the site.
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Photo by Joshua McElwee, Staff Writer for the National Catholic Reporter
[Blog editor’s note: the final arrest tally was 53, not 52 people.]
by Joshua McElwee
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Fifty-two peace activists, most connected to Catholic Worker houses throughout the nation, were arrested here May 2 after blocking the gate to the construction site of what will be the nation’s first nuclear weapons production facility to be built in 33 years.
The acts of civil disobedience came 78 years and one day from the founding of the first Catholic Worker community by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, and were the culmination of a three-day “faith and resistance” retreat hosted by two Catholic Worker communities, which drew some 150 to this city.
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The Nuclear Resister E-bulletin, April, 2011 IN THIS E-BULLETIN: 1) PERSISTENT ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVISTS IN INDIA JAILED, SHOT BY POLICE; TABREZ SOHEKAR IS KILLED 2) THIRTY-SEVEN ARRESTED PROTESTING DRONES AT HANCOCK AIR BASE 3) BRADLEY MANNING MOVED TO FORT LEAVENWORTH 4) ELEVEN WOMEN TEMPORARILY CLOSE VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 5) TRIPOD BLOCKADE NEAR BUCKINGHAM PALACE […]
The Nuclear Resister E-bulletin, March, 2011 IN THIS E-BULLETIN: 1) TWO TO 15 MONTHS PRISON SENTENCES FOR DISARM NOW PLOWSHARES 2) DEMONSTRATION FOR BRADLEY MANNING’S FREEDOM RESULTS IN 31 ARRESTS 3) INVASION ANNIVERSARY ACTIONS LEAD TO ARRESTS IN D.C. AND HOLLYWOOD 4) TWELVE ARRESTED AT LOCKHEED-MARTIN MISSILE PLANT 5) REFLECTION ON FUKUSHIMA, by Fr. Louie […]
The Nuclear Resister E-Bulletin, February, 2011 IN THIS E-BULLETIN: 1) ACTION AT NEVADA TEST SITE MARKS 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST ATOMIC BOMB TEST THERE 2) CREECH 14 FOUND GUILTY, SENTENCED TO TIME SERVED 3) LONGEST JAILED NUCLEAR RESISTER HELEN WOODSON NEEDS SUPPORT 4) REFLECTIONS ON THE ANZUS PLOWSHARES 20 YEARS LATER 5) WRITE A NOTE […]
By Deanne Reed Hollinger, libertariansavvy.com
Still awaiting trial, accused whistleblower PFC Bradley Manning has been moved from solitary confinement at the U.S. Marine base at Quantico, Virginia to medium-security status in the military brig at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The government denied that growing concern over the conditions of his confinement led to the move, which came days after nearly 300 of the top law scholars in the U.S. called on the Obama administration to end the torturous treatment of Bradley Manning.
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photo by Leonard Eiger
FDC SeaTac
by Lynne Greenwald
Concrete walls and locked doors
cannot take away images of bright lights,
fences and towers protecting tombs
of unimaginable horrors.
We remember fertile lands, natural
forests, mollusk-rich beaches, early morning
fog clinging to water and earth until
the sun brightens the sky,
exposing Olympian mountains.
Trident IS Illegal and Immoral.
We mourn. We cannot be silent.
Resistance is a song, a dance,
an act of love.
We must resist.
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Mark Kenney, before crossing the line on August 9, 2010
April 27, 2011
National Catholic Reporter
By Joshua J. McElwee
A young sailor walks through his nuclear submarine, headed for the engine room. As he winds through the tight, crowded corridors he suddenly finds himself standing next to a nuclear missile launch hatch.
He reaches out an outstretched hand. Tentatively, he places it on one of the warheads.
Click. Something changes. The destructive power of a thermonuclear detonation is no longer an abstraction. It’s real. His hand is touching it.
Over the next few days, the sailor heads to his chaplain. He asks the same questions, over and over: What are we doing? How can we justify this?
Fast-forward thirty years. That ex-sailor, Mark Kenney, reports today to Duluth Federal Prison Camp for a six-month stint for an act of civil disobedience at Offutt Air Force Base. He walked about ten steps onto the property of the complex with three others after a vigil there August 6.
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Drone protests block entrance to Hancock Field. Photo by Gary Walts, Syracuse Post-Standard
by Dave Tobin / The Post-Standard
Dozens of war protesters were arrested Friday afternoon, April 22 outside the main entrance of the New York Air National Guard’s base at Hancock Field.
Thirty-seven protesters, draped with red-spattered sheets, had lain themselves in the main entrance roads to the base, off East Molloy Road. They were arrested by Onondaga County Sheriff’s deputies on charges of trespassing and obstruction of justice.
They were handcuffed and, after a 45-minute wait, were led to a jail transport bus that was supposed to take them to the Onondaga County Justice Center for processing. Two were in wheel chairs.
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Photo by Marcia Gagliardi
Eleven women from Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire chained and locked the main gate of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vermont on Friday afternoon, April 22. Police arrested the women and charged them with trespass.
The demonstrators carried two banners reading “No More Leaks / No More Lies / Shut It Down Now” and “No More Accidents / Shut it Down Now.” They also stretched yellow caution tape across the Entergy driveway and noticed that spray-painted warnings they applied several months ago are still visible.
After the arrests, state and local police transported the women to the Vernon police station, where they were cited and released pending a June 20 appearance in Brattleboro’s Windham District Court.
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