The Nuclear Resister

Shut It Downers advance to the Vermont Yankee gate. Photo by Marcia Gagliardi

VERNON, Vermont—Making good on their promise to continue demonstrating at Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant until an uncontaminated green field stands in place of the still-operating nuclear reactor, on September 18 nine members of the Shut It Down Affinity Group chained themselves to the gate and spray painted the words “Shut It Down Today” on Entergy’s driveway.

Jerry Ebner before being arrested at Offutt AFB on December 28, 2012. Photo by Frank Cordaro

On September 2, Jerry Ebner began a six month prison sentence for crossing the line at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska during a December 28, 2012 Feast of the Holy Innocents witness.  The base is home to the U.S. Strategic Command, where officers and consultants constantly plan and prepare for global thermonuclear war.

Letters of support should be sent to Gerald Ebner 24467-045, Lexington Federal Medical Center, POB 14500, Lexington, KY 40512. Help with donations to his commissary account is also welcome. As with all contributions to a federal prisoner’s account, a postal money order payable to his full name and ID# must be sent to Federal Bureau of Prisons, Gerald A. Ebner 24467-045, POB 47401, Des Moines, IA 50947-0001.  Jerry has no source for cash on the inside except for what friends and supporters can send him, so please help if you are able.

photo by Mike Wisniewski

On August 28, the Los Angeles Catholic Worker had a solidarity arrest action for Pvt. Chelsea Manning at the downtown federal building. Community members David Omondi, Barbara Robinson and Jeff Dietrich chained and handcuffed themselves together and attempted to block the main entrance. They were arrested and charged with two misdemeanors: Failure to disperse and Blocking an entrance.

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.

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.