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From John Dear, explaining why we need to nonviolently resist nuclear weapons

Fr. John Dear

Fr. John Dear

Bob Dylan and America’s 70-Year Nuclear Nightmare

from The World Post/Huffington Post

by John Dear

A few years ago, Bob Dylan gave a powerful interview to Rolling Stone. The editor asked about his recent music, but also about our political predicament and how we got into this global mess. Dylan seemed a bit cantankerous — forgive me, Bob! — and kept hemming and hawing.

“What gets in your blood?” the editor asked.

“The whole culture,” Dylan answered.

What do you mean? What are you saying? the editor asked. He kept pushing Dylan to explain where rock and roll came from.

Finally, when push came to shove, Bob Dylan gave the definitive answer.

Hiroshima.

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Nuclear disarmament activists arrested at the Pentagon, Lockheed Martin, Bangor Trident Base, Kansas City nuclear weapons plant, Livermore Lab and Vandenberg AFB, marking 70th anniversary of atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

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from Leonard Eiger

Twelve arrests at Trident nuclear submarine base marking the 70th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings

Fourteen peace activists risked arrest at a West Coast nuclear weapons base early Monday morning, August 10, in a nonviolent protest against the continued deployment and modernization of the Trident nuclear weapons system.

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Fr. Carl Kabat arrested after splashing paint on sign at new Kansas City nuclear weapons plant

imagesfrom Jane Stoever

On August 9, at about 7 a.m., Fr. Carl Kabat splashed red paint on a National Security Campus sign at the new Kansas City nuclear weapons plant.

“The deed is done,” Kabat told lawyer Henry Stoever in a call at 7:19 a.m. “I came to the back gate—there was a car (a guard’s car) at the main gate. Two guards are coming.” Kabat said something about splashing paint on a sign and then hung up, reported Stoever. “He sounded happy,” added Stoever.

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Three activists arrested after infiltrating a joint U.S./Australian military training exercise site

Peace Pilgrims Simon Reeves, Rev. Simon Moyle & Greg Rolles

Peace Pilgrims Simon Reeves, Rev. Simon Moyle & Greg Rolles

From the Morning Bulletin

Three men infiltrated a military training exercise at Shoalwater Bay in Australia on the morning of July 8.

Before dawn, three Christian peace pilgrims entered Shoalwater Bay live training area to disrupt the “Talisman Sabre” U.S.-Australian war “rehearsals” as “invaders” are parachuted in to begin the “games”.

Range Control for Talisman Sabre were notified that civilians were present in the training zone and were asked to call a ceasefire. Peace Convergence have been told by Range Control that the concern would be “passed on”.

About 9 a.m., police were advised by ADF Military Police that they had found three men trespassing in the area.

Pastor Simon Reeves, Quaker Greg Rolles and the Reverend Simon Moyle, all in their 30s, were detained by the military police and handed over to local police. They were then transported to the Rockhampton police station.

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Prison sentence for Spanish anti-nuclear activist

PastedGraphic-6 MaximoA Spanish anti-nuclear campaigner has been sent to prison for 17 weeks for refusing to pay €6,000 for what he called “energy and harmful pollutants” as a protest against the Almaraz nuclear power plant, located west of Madrid in the Spanish Extremadura.

“It’s the only option left to me,” said Máximo González García, president of the Association of People Affected by Nuclear Almaraz. He has been campaigning against the two-reactor plant for nearly 20 years. His son, now an amputee, is the only survivor among up to nine people in the immediate Jaraiz de la Vera region diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer, following a 1988 radiation leak at the plant. Many other cases of birth defects and rare cancers are reported from the area since the first Almaraz reactor opened in 1981.

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Nuclear Resister E-bulletin May 2015

  May 2015 IN THIS E-BULLETIN SABOTAGE CONVICTION OVERTURNED; SR. MEGAN, MICHAEL AND GREG RELEASED FROM PRISON! FIVE NUCLEAR ABOLITIONISTS ARRESTED AT MOTHER’S DAY ACTION AT TRIDENT SUB BASE MOTHER’S DAY ACTION AT PILGRIM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; TWO ARRESTED PLEASE SUPPORT IMPRISONED ANTI-NUCLEAR AND ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS – THE NUCLEAR RESISTER NEEDS YOU! Sabotage conviction overturned; […]

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Mother’s Day action at Pilgrim nuclear power plant

11350161_10154088626033357_1891518277_nCape Downwinders amped up their campaign to shut down the aging Pilgrim nuclear power plant with a Mad As Hell Mother’s Day Rumble on May 10. “Bring food, noisemakers and all your frustrations – We will make racket” announced the flyer for the event, which began with a picnic and rally at White Horse Beach on the western shore of Cape Cod Bay, next to the 42-year-old reactor. There was song, drumming, three original poems about Pilgrim by Cape resident Marge Piercy, and an update on the shut-down effort in the wake of two reactor shutdowns last winter due to storm threats and damage, including one emergency scram.

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