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Reflections on joining the resistance to the naval base on Jeju Island

Posted on March 8, 2016

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by Chrissy Kirchhoefer

The word embodiment has been reverberating in my mind since arriving in Gangjeong village, a small fishing and agricultural community on Jeju, the Island of World Peace. There are opportunities throughout the day to place my body on the path between the war machine, well lubed by the US government, and the will of the people calling for peaceful coexistence with all creation. It is such a gift to clearly see where to place oneself to resist such destruction and to join in the celebration of life in the affirmation of peace in the 100 bows in the Buddhist tradition and Catholic mass concluded with joyful dancing.

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~ from the Jamesville Correctional Facility, second jail letter by Mary Anne Grady Flores

Posted on March 1, 2016

On January 19, 2016 I was remanded after a county court decision upheld a lower court verdict that I was guilty of violating the terms of an order of protection while photographing 8 Catholic drone protestors at Hancock Air Force Base. Orders of protection were originally created to protect domestic violence victims and witnesses who might be subject to intimidation.

A month later while in jail I realized that Friday, February 19 was important to me for four reasons. First, it was the seventh anniversary of my brother-in-law Peter DeMott’s sudden passing, leaving my widowed sister Ellen with four daughters to raise. Peter was a rock in our family and is sorely missed. We miss his energy, his wit, his deep bass radio voice, his random acts of kindness, his recitation of poetry, his mixing hot sauce with all his food. We miss his tireless efforts of putting his body at many gates, or climbing over fences or driving into military bases or witnessing at corporate military contractors’ facilities like Lockheed Martin, to end the madness of the never ending racist colonial wars of the U.S. empire. I hold Ellen, the tireless organizer of anti-killer-drone actions at Hancock Airbase, and each of their gifted daughters in prayer and in love.

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Two Voices for Creative Nonviolence activists arrested for entering drone base with loaf of bread

Posted on February 25, 2016

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Camp Douglas, WI — On February 23, two peace activists with Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Brian Terrell and Kathy Kelly, were arrested when they attempted to deliver a loaf of bread and a letter to drone operators at Volk Field, an Air National Guard Base in Wisconsin which trains pilots to operate Shadow Drones over other countries. Voices activists have lived alongside ordinary people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Gaza. People who can’t flee from drone surveillance and attacks have good reason to fear people from the U.S., but instead they have broken bread with Kelly and Terrell and have welcomed opportunities for deepened mutual understanding. Kelly and Terrell carried the loaf of bread to signify the worth of relying on words rather than weapons.

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Blockade by anti-nuclear Greenpeace activists in France, 13 arrests

Posted on February 12, 2016
photo by Nicolas Chauveau, Greenpeace

photo by Nicolas Chauveau, Greenpeace

On the morning of February 12, Greenpeace activists stopped a truck near Caen, France which carried the head of the vessel of the EPR nuclear reactor under construction at Flamanville (Manche).

Thirteen activists were arrested and held in custody for a few hours. They were charged with obstructing traffic.

The convoy left the Areva plant in Chalon-sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire) on Monday morning, headed towards Normandy. Greenpeace members had arrived at around 7:30 a.m. in the parking lot where the truck was parked in the town of Evrecy, 20 km southwest of Caen.

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~ from the Jamesville Correctional Facility, by Mary Anne Grady Flores

Posted on February 11, 2016

February 11, 2016

Greetings, Dear Friends —

Joy swept through our cell block, Jamesville County Jail, Pod 4, Thursday, January 28.

That evening some of the fifty-nine women in our Pod rushed up and knocked on my cell door. They reported the six o’clock news had shown twelve drone resisters handcuffed, sitting on a roadside curb, waiting to be taken into custody.

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~ from USP Coleman, by Leonard Peltier, on the 40th anniversary of his imprisonment

Posted on February 6, 2016

February 6, 2016

Greetings friends, supporters and all Native Peoples.

What can I say that I have not said before? I guess I can start by saying see you later to all of those who have passed in the last year. We Natives don’t like to mention their names. We believe that if we speak their names it disrupts their journey. They may loose their way and their spirits wander forever. If too many call out to them, they will try to come back. But their spirits know we are thinking about them, so all I will say is safe journey and I hope to see you soon.

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Nuclear Resister E-bulletin January 2016

Posted on February 1, 2016

January 2016 IN THIS E-BULLETIN GRANDMA DRONE PROTESTER JAILED FOR 6 MONTHS KOREAN NAVAL BASE RESISTER REFUSES TO PAY FINE, IS JAILED TWELVE ARRESTED AT JERRY BERRIGAN MEMORIAL DRONE BLOCKADE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ACTION AT LOCKHEED MARTIN RESULTS IN 9 ARRESTS THIRTEEN ACTIVISTS ARRESTED ON U.S. CAPITOL STEPS BEFORE STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH […]

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Nine arrested at a Lockheed Martin protest in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Posted on January 30, 2016

imagesby Bob Smith

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 18, at Lockheed Martin in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania was cold, terribly cold. It was one for the Brandywine Peace Community record books. We thought that for anyone who could risk the cold, there needed to be something at the world’s chief war profiteer in honor of Dr. King’s message of nonviolent action and resistance for justice and peace. So as we have every year since 1977, we stood holding banners and signs for Dr. King and his message. About 20 people were there as the loudspeaker boomed the words of Dr. King. We had decided to cut our memorial with music and more in half.

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Jeju, Korea navy base resister picks jail over fine

Posted on January 29, 2016
Kim Guk-Nam photo by Yoonmadam 윤마담

Kim Guk-Nam photo by Yoonmadam 윤마담

On January 27, Mr. Kim Guk-Nam, a 50 year-old sea-diving activist living in Gangjeong village on Jeju, the Peace Island of Korea, turned himself in to jail after refusing to pay fines of 5 million KRW (about USD$5,000) for his protests against the navy base nearing completion there. At the rate of one day per 100,000 KRW, he will serve 50 days in prison.

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Jerry Berrigan Memorial Drone Blockade at Hancock Air Base, 12 arrested

Posted on January 28, 2016

IMG_8289 (1)Jerry Berrigan, Presente!

from The Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars

On Thursday morning, January 28, thirty life sized cutouts of Syracuse peacemaker Jerry Berrigan blockaded the main entrance of Hancock Air National Guard Base outside Syracuse, NY. The cutouts were accompanied by twelve nonviolent drone resisters, who were arrested after blockading for an hour and a half. See video (of the blockade and arrests).

Jerry Berrigan, who died on July 26, 2015 at the age of 95, dedicated his entire life – like his brothers Dan and Phil – to Jesus’ command to love one another, Jerry came to the base on a bi-weekly basis whenever he was able, in his words, “to remind the base commander of our government’s pledge under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, a treaty to safeguard non-combatant’s well-being in any warzone in which U.S. forces are engaged in combat.” And further, “to register horror and indignation at reports of bombing missions by drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan which resulted in the deaths of many innocent civilians; men, women and children.”

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