The Nuclear Resister

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.

photo by London Catholic Worker

from Pax Christi UK

For 32 years Christians have gathered at the Ministry of Defence in London on Ash Wednesday to call on the government to repent and move away from nuclear war preparations.   Members of Pax Christi, the London Catholic Worker and Christian CND from around the country gathered to pray and take part in symbolic acts of repentance and peacemaking as they processed, with three prayer stops, around the Ministry of Defence building.

During the March 5 procession, the MOD building was marked with crosses using charcoal and ash blessed at the beginning of the service.  Those marking were Dr. Ray Towey, Fr. Martin Newell and Scott Albrecht.  Scott was the only person to be detained by the police.

NOT WAITING TO BE ASKED . . .
TO HELP MIKE, GREG, MEGAN

from the Transform Now Plowshares Support Group

Three peacemakers are in prison.
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Here is the prepared statement Megan Rice read to the court on Tuesday, February 18, 2014:

PART I

As I sat observing the facial expressions of participants present in the hearing on January 28th, I sensed a clear sense of a shared mental reaction during the arguments on this restitution evidentiary Table submitted by the Prosecution (identification…) (display my Exhibit I)

I think we felt something of a Master’s compassionate consternation with the hypocrisy at his accusers.  (Luke 6:5-11  Mark 4:20-30)

I was stunned that 8 months had elapsed with apparently no prior conversations, out of court, between the opposing sides and the court in this case, and would have imagined it had been resolved by negotiation during those delays, and relegated to where it deserved to be disposed. – unworthy of evidence in any court of law.

by Felice and Jack Cohen-Joppa

Nine months after their conviction on charges of sabotage and criminal damage at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, three nuclear abolitionists were sentenced to lengthy prison terms today, February 18, in federal court in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Federal Court Judge Amul Thapar imposed prison terms less than what federal guidelines recommend and prosecutors asked for: 35 months for Sr. Megan Rice (84 years old), and 62 months for Michael Walli (64 years old) and Greg Boertje-Obed (59 years old), followed by 3 years of supervised release. Divided among them, the three Transform Now Plowshares activists must also pay restitution totaling $52,953.