The Nuclear Resister

witnesstorture.org photo

from Witness Against Torture

Responding to reports that 84 men — more than half of those imprisoned at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay — are hunger striking to protest their indefinite detention, 12 concerned activists with Witness Against Torture were arrested on April 22 at approximately 3 p.m. in a “die-in” on the steps of the Federal Courthouse at Manhattan’s Foley Square.

Those arrested, some in orange jumpsuits and black hoods, held signs with names of the men who have already died under U.S. custody at the prison. Fearing that more prisoners could die soon, the protesters are demanding that immediate measures be taken by the Obama administration to close the prison.

photo by Ric Lander – http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricjl/sets/72157633253226740/detail/

from Scrap Trident

Hundreds of people from across the UK, France and as far away as New Zealand converged on Faslane Naval Base in Scotland, homeport to Trident, at 7 a.m. on April 15, blocking all three of its gates and shutting down access, bringing traffic on all roads into the nuclear weapons base to a halt for 3 hours.

Students, pensioners, environmentalists and activists from a dozen campaign groups and political parties laid down in the entrance to the base and locked themselves together with metal and plastic tubes, chains and thumb cuffs. They demanded the UK disarm Trident, fund human needs – welfare, education, pensions, disability benefits, and green jobs – and let Scotland lead the way to a world free of nuclear weapons.

Photo by Fr. Colbe Jung

by Sung-Hee Choi [see updates below]

April 8 and 9

While company workers block the gates [of the site of a new naval base being constructed on Jeju Island, South Korea], police are intentionally silent about it. People are desperately keeping the gate. Company workers’ violence to people is a very high possibility. One young man was hit in the eye with glass and needed medical investigation to his face yesterday. One person was arrested yesterday.

Megan, Michael and Greg

by Ralph Hutchison

Today was the day we met our new judge; Amul Thapar came down from Covington, KY to take over the Transform Now Plowshares case from the docket of retiring judge Thomas Phillips. Thapar was appointed ten days ago and last week called a status conference. So Greg got on a bus in Duluth and Megan and Michael caught the megabus in Washington, DC. Bill Quigley and Sara Godchaux drove up from Louisiana and Anabel and David Dwyer came down from Michigan.

Good Friday Stations of Justice, Peace, and Nonviolent Resistance to Lockheed Martin, King of Prussia, PA, March 29, 2013

from Brandywine Peace Community

About forty people gathered at Lockheed Martin for the Brandywine Peace Community’s annual Good Friday Peace Demonstration and service modeled on the traditional stations of the cross, however with readings, poetry, recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and music paralleling Jesus’ last steps and crucifixion with the suffering of humanity through war, social injustice, and the violation of the earth, as well as signs of hope and expressions of radical peacemaking – people facing arrest for nonviolent resistance to the criminal authority of Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest war profiteer.