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Photo by Andrew Courtney

Eleven anti-nuclear activists were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after stretching yellow caution tape across the main entrance of New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant on December 12. The 50 people in attendance were there to protest the decision of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow one of the plant’s two reactors, Unit 3, to continue to operate after its license expires at midnight on Saturday, December 12.

Arrested were Gary Shaw, Judy Allen, Sally Gellert, Ken Okin, CP Colfield, Dan Fullerton, Merle Mceldowney, JK Canepa, Bruce Rosen, Jacki Drechsler and Rick Ufford-Chase.

photo of Felice & Jack near the peas growing in their garden

CONVERGING ON DECEMBER 1 –

PRISONERS FOR PEACE DAY AND GIVING TUESDAY!

Hi, friends,

Prisoners for Peace Day was established over 60 years ago by War Resisters’ International, to encourage people to write to conscientious objectors and others who are imprisoned because of their actions for peace.

Giving Tuesday, a global day dedicated to giving, was more recently established as a day for people to give to the non-profits of their choice, after the consumer frenzy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

So please consider:

Vredesactie photo

On Monday afternoon, November 16, European policymakers and arms merchants were meeting in private at the annual conference of the European Defence Agency (EDA) in Brussels. Soon after the Paris massacre, the war suppliers were primed to profit from the Agency’s mission that includes strengthening the European defense industry.

On the sidewalk just outside the barricaded, red carpet entrance to the meeting venue, about three dozen peace activists rolled out a red puddle of paint, disrupting the scene as they staged a bloody sit-in.

No MUOS photo

from LaSicilia.it (a translation from the original Italian)

Niscemi
The No MUOS Movement makes it clear: “The site is vulnerable ‘

November 15, 2015

PALERMO – The MUOS, located near Niscemi, “one of the most important strategic sites of the U.S. armed forces, is vulnerable” and therefore “dangerous”. So writes the website of the Sicilian movement “No MUOS, ” hailing the action of their activist Turi Vaccaro, who last Thursday, evading the strict surveillance of U.S. soldiers and the police, managed to penetrate the military base in the area of Ulmo, climb one of the three radar dishes of the disputed system of satellite telecommunications, and sabotage it with a hammer, causing damage of close to 800 thousand euro.

Occupy Beale photo

Five activists, including two military veterans, were arrested at Beale Air Force Base in California early on the morning of Tuesday, October 20. They were protesting the use of drones by the U.S. around the world that are killing hundreds of civilians, including children. The base is home to surveillance drones which pick the targets for U.S. Predator drones.

The activists approached a main gate of the base to deliver a letter to the base commander calling for an end to the base’s involvement in drone warfare. The gate is the busiest entrance to Beale – protests in the past have backed up hundreds of cars miles outside the base.