The Nuclear Resister networks the anti-nuclear and anti-war resistance movement while acting as a clearinghouse for information about contemporary nonviolent resistance to war and the nuclear threat. Our emphasis is on support for the women and men jailed for these actions. This website is the online companion to the Nuclear Resister newsletter, a more comprehensive chronicle.
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From the Nuclear Resister
(This chronicle of resistance was originally published in issues #202, #203/204 and #205 of the Nuclear Resister newsletter. This online version includes available updates and corrections, and was last updated on November 19, 2024.)
Since October of 2023, thousands of protests and direct actions around the world have called for a ceasefire and end to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In this day-by-day record of dissent, the Nuclear Resister has chronicled more than 10,000 arrests (and counting) in the U.S. and Canada on over 425 occasions across more than 140 cities and towns in 37 states and 5 provinces. More than one third of those have occurred on the campus of at least 70 colleges and universities. It marks the largest surge of anti-war arrests since mid-April, 2003, when the Nuclear Resister reported over 7,500 anti-war arrests in the U.S. alone in the lead-up to and first weeks of the second U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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A small group of activists with Veterans for Peace, CodePink and Ban Killer Drones converged October 13 – 19 in the southern Nevada desert at Creech Air Force Base (AFB) for a week of nonviolent resistance to the illegal US. drone warfare program. They traveled from four states for the 15th annual protest at the base, located an hour northwest of Las Vegas. Some participated for the entire week and others came when they could, but they shared one thing in common: an abhorrence of the inhumanity and illegality of the U.S. drone program that takes human life remotely and covertly from thousands of miles away.» Read more…
Four women have each been sentenced to two months in jail in New Hampshire, after pleading guilty in September to charges of misdemeanor criminal mischief and criminal trespass following their November 20, 2023 direct action to disrupt production at Elbit Systems in Merrimack. Elbit is notoriously Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, with factories and offices across both Great Britain and the United States being a focus of anti-war protest and direct action. » Read more…
On October 14, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Catherine Hourcade crossed the boundary line of the Nevada National Security Site and was arrested. She was given a citation for trespass with a notice to appear in Nye County Court on December 9.
A short while earlier, she had joined with others in a Shoshone/Paiute sunrise ceremony, led by Jeremiah Jones. The group then walked the short distance to the entrance of the nuclear weapons test site. Carrying the tribal permit Jones had issued, granting Hourcade permission to be on Shoshone land, she entered test site property and handed the officer the permit along with her ID. He asked her why she had trespassed, and whether it was because of the Shoshone. “Yes!”, she replied, “This is sacred Shoshone land and you don’t belong here!” She told the officer about the contamination there because of nuclear bomb tests.
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Dennis DuVall and wife Michelle Shiloh
On October 31, Germany intends to expel U.S. citizen Dennis DuVall, 82, a resident of Radeberg, Germany, a member of Veterans For Peace, and a nuclear resister against U.S./NATO thermonuclear bombs deployed at Büchel NATO base in Germany.
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Photo by Mary Gleysteen
Sue Ablao, Mack Johnson, Gilberto Perez, Michael Firefly Siptroth and Caroline Wildflower appeared before Judge Pro Tem Kyle A. Joyce in Kitsap Country Traffic Court August 13, 2024, seeking mitigation of “pedestrian in the roadway” citations and fines for blocking traffic to the Trident Submarine Base on Mother’s Day, May 12. (Carolee Flaten was out of town and sought mitigation by mail.)
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Photo by Felice Cohen-Joppa
Jeff Dietrich and Catherine Morris of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker renewed their wedding vows on Saturday, August 10 during a protest at California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base (formerly Air Force Base). Seventy-five people joined them to celebrate their 50th anniversary – five decades together of community, hospitality, love and resistance! – and to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The U.S. test-launches nuclear missiles from the Vandenberg base.
After renewing their vows, Catherine and Jeff crossed onto base property (90-year-old Catherine with the aid of a walker), along with Frank Cordaro, Nuri Ronaghe and Dimitri Kadiev. All were cited and released.
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Eight nuclear weapons abolition activists were removed from the roadway on the morning of August 5 by the Washington State Patrol after blocking the entrance to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, site of the world’s largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons. The action was part of the annual demonstration organized by the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action to commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August 1945.
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Susan Crane and Susan van der Hijden spent a lot of time in their shared cell at Rohrbach prison. Add paper and colored pencils to the mix, along with the desire to create something special for Susan Crane’s grandchildren… and the attached comic – “Why is my Grandma in Prison?” – is the result! A collaboration by the two Susans, with artwork by Susan van der Hijden – wonderful!
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