November 2014 IN THIS E-BULLETIN AGENT ORANGE WIDOW AND FRIEND ARRESTED PROTESTING DRONES AT BEALE AIR FORCE BASE TWO ACTIVISTS ARRESTED AT ANNUAL VIGIL TO CLOSE FT. BENNING’S SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS PLEASE SUPPORT IMPRISONED ANTI-NUCLEAR AND ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS – THE NUCLEAR RESISTER NEEDS YOU! DECEMBER 1 – PRISONERS FOR PEACE DAY _________________________________________________________ Agent Orange […]
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letter to base commander
by Chris Nelson from her ANSWERING2LIFE blog
Last night, on November 25, I got to the Main Gate at Beale Air Force Base right before dusk and there were no other protestors there. One of the young men from the base walked out to tell me I couldn’t take photos toward the base as I was taking photos of horses and the sunset. Soon Shirley, Barry, Sharon and her husband came and we had a lovely little potluck. All were either gone, in their cars or in the case of Selkie and I, in our tents, by 8 p.m.
First thing in the morning we were out with our signs. I had decided to cross onto the base and give a handwritten letter I’d written (on the back of a commemorative photo of Michael demonstrating with Vets for Peace.)
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Photo by Anne Dowling
from SOA Watch
November Vigil Concludes with Solemn Funeral Procession to Fort Benning (home of the School of the Americas) & Two More Civil Disobedience Arrests
Mass Mobilization to Shut Down Latin American Security Forces Training School, For-Profit Immigrant Detention Center; Grassroots Mobilizations Connect Struggles against State Violence and Injustice
Columbus, Georgia – 2,500 human rights activists braved the rainstorms on Sunday, November 23 and converged at Fort Benning to call for an end to militarized state violence in the US and abroad. Featured presenters came from Mexico, Colombia, Honduras, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Venezuela, and the US.
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April 2009 action at Creech Air Force Base. Photo by Jeff Leys.
from Voice for Creative Nonviolence
by Brian Terrell
Political language can be used, George Orwell said in 1946, “to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” In order to justify its global assassination program, the Obama administration has had to stretch words beyond their natural breaking points. For instance, any male 14 years or older found dead in a drone strike zone is a “combatant” unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving him innocent. We are also informed that the constitutional guarantee of “due process” does not imply that the government must precede an execution with a trial. I think the one word most degraded and twisted these days, to the goriest ends, is the word “imminent.”
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Megan Rice 88101-020 MDC Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center P.O. Box 329002 Brooklyn, NY 11232 November 2, 2014 5th anniversary of the Disarm Now Plowshares action at Kitsap-Bangor Naval Base, homeport for eight Trident submarines which carry 192 multi-warhead nuclear ballistic missiles when deployed in the sacred waters of the Pacific, and stores 2,000 nuclear weapons. […]
October 2014 IN THIS E-BULLETIN FORMER CIA ANALYST RAY MCGOVERN ARRESTED TRYING TO ATTEND PETRAEUS EVENT AUSTRALIAN PEACE ACTIVISTS DETAINED AND ASSAULTED FATHER AND DAUGHTER ARRESTED AT BEALE AIR FORCE BASE DRONE PROTEST TWELVE DAY PRISON TERM FOR FINE REFUSAL FROM JEJU ISLAND NAVAL BASE PROTEST FOUR GRANDMOTHERS FOUND GUILTY OF MOTHER’S DAY TRESPASS AT […]
McGovern leaving the police station
from The Dissenter, firedoglake.com
by Kevin Gosztola
Friday, October 31, 2014, 1:04 am
(update below)
Former CIA analyst and activist Ray McGovern was arrested [on October 30] as he attempted to attend an event in New York City featuring former CIA director and retired military general, David Petraeus. He was charged with resisting arrest, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.
At 92nd Street Y, which describes itself as a “world-class cultural and community center,” Petraeus was to appear with John Nagl, who recently wrote a book, Knife Fights about being an army tank commander in the Gulf War of 1991. Neoconservative commentator Max Boot was to join them as well.
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photo by Guarionex Delgado
My Daughter and I Were Arrested Today By Military Police Guarding The World’s Most Hated Weapon
by Mauro Oliveira
10/28/2014
It was a familiar and warm exchange of greetings and spirited talk. The small group of activists I was with had called out to the military gate guards with a question concerning the spider web like substance that seemed to be everywhere around the base; on cars, vegetation telephone poles, fences, floating in the air and across the land. Men with sidearms and radios in camo fatigues approached us.
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Cape Cod Times/Christine Hochkeppel
Medical expert testifies in trial of Pilgrim nuke plant activists
from the Cape Cod Times
October 23, 2014
PLYMOUTH — It’s not safe to live on Cape Cod, according to an internationally known expert on the medical and environmental dangers of nuclear power.
During the final day of the trespassing trial of four anti-nuclear activists from the Cape, Dr. Helen Caldicott testified that it isn’t simply the potential for a major nuclear meltdown at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station that should have people worried. Cancer-causing chemicals are constantly escaping from the reactor into the air and water, she said.
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