May, 2013
IN THIS E-BULLETIN:
- THREE PLOWSHARES ACTIVISTS CONVICTED OF SABOTAGE AND DEPREDATION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY AT Y-12, IN JAIL UNTIL SENTENCING support needed
- 10 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR C.O. KIMBERLY RIVERA
- ARRESTS AT DRONE PROTESTS AT BEALE AFB, CA AND VOLK FIELD, WI
- ARRESTS, JAILINGS, INJURIES ON JEJU ISLAND
- ANTI-NUCLEAR POWER PROTEST ARRESTS AT KUDANKULAM (INDIA) AND PILGRIM (USA)
- GUANTANAMO PROTESTERS ARRESTED ON WHITE HOUSE SIDEWALK
- INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION FOR BRADLEY MANNING, JUNE 1-8, 2013
Three Plowshares activists convicted of sabotage and depredation of government property at Y-12, in jail until sentencing
support needed
Greg Boertje-Obed, Michael Walli and Megan Rice are currently in the Irwin County Detention Facility in Ocilla, Georgia, awaiting their sentencing on September 23, 2013. The three were found guilty by a jury in Tennessee in May on two counts. Judge Amul Thapar revoked their pre-trial release saying they were technically guilty of a crime of violence and must be held.
There are two things you can do to support Michael, Megan and Greg: write to them in jail, and write a letter to their judge before sentencing.
Read details about how to support them here.
Read more about their trial here and here.
10 months in prison for C.O. Kimberly Rivera
During a court-martial hearing at Ft. Carson, Colorado, Kimberly Rivera was sentenced to 14 months in military prison and a dishonourable discharge after publicly expressing her conscientious objection to the Iraq War while in Canada. A pre-trial agreement capped the sentence at 10 months of confinement and a bad conduct discharge.
Read more here.
Arrests at drone protests
Beale AFB, CA
Five people were arrested around 8 a.m. on April 30 after dozens of anti-drone demonstrators blocked the entrance to Beale Air Force Base for hours, resulting in hundreds of vehicles being prevented from entering the base.
Read more here.
Volk Field, WI
On May 28, five nonviolent activists attempted to deliver an indictment for war crimes to Volk Field Commander Colonel Dave Romuald. They walked peacefully onto the base with the indictment in hand, and asked for a meeting with Colonel Romauld. Instead of a meeting, they were promptly arrested, taken to the Juneau County jail in handcuffs, and charged with disorderly conduct and trespassing.
Read more here.
Arrests, jailings, injuries on Jeju Island
The siren rang around 7 a.m. on May 9. At around 8 a.m. several hundred police were lined up and in position. Four people chained themselves to the main tent and the other activists and villagers gathered around them. Then several hundred public worker thugs came. They began to tear down everything and throw everything away. There was a long struggle between villagers/activists and police/public workers. Finally four people were arrested.
Read more here.
Anti-nuclear power protest arrests
Kudankulam (India)
The police on Saturday, April 20 arrested as many as 146 activists, including 105 men, 36 women and five children of the Anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project People’s Federation when they tried to take out a procession from Kanyakumari to Kudankulam.
Read more here.
Pilgrim (USA)
Ten members of Cape Downwinders were arrested on the afternoon of May 19 while attempting to deliver a letter to the owner of the Entergy nuclear facility in South Plymouth. All were released on their own recognizance.
Read more here.
Guantanamo protesters arrested on White House sidewalk
May 17th marked the 100th day of the hunger strike of Guantanamo prisoners, with protests and vigils around the world calling for an end to indefinite detention, torture and the closing of Guantanamo. In Washington, D.C., a noon-time vigil on Pennsylvania Ave. in front of the White House brought the hunger-strikers’ urgent plea for justice to President Obama. Shortly after the vigil ended, fourteen people walked onto the White House sidewalk in the “picture postcard” area and held a nonviolent witness. A huge banner was unfurled: “Immoral, Illegal, Ineffective – No Torture, No Guantanamo.”
Read more here.
International Week of Action for Bradley Manning, June 1-8, 2013
June 1st will mark the beginning of Bradley Manning’s fourth year in prison and the start of his trial. The June 1st Ft. Meade protest for Bradley Manning will be the largest action of our campaign! People across the nation (and the globe) will converge on Ft. Meade to stand up for the Army whistleblower who risked everything to give the public real facts about our government’s wars in the Middle East and foreign policy worldwide.
Read more here.
Write a note of support to anti-nuclear & anti-war prisoners
They’re in there for us; we’re out here for them!
You can find a regularly updated list of imprisoned military refusers, anti-nuclear and anti-war activists on the Nuclear Resister blog, as well as prisoners’ writings.
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