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from antiwar.com
‘People’s Arms Embargo’ at Travis Air Force Base
by Rick Sterling
Seventy-five protesters gathered under threatening skies at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California at 6:30 am on Wednesday, November 20. Their mission: to speak out and briefly interrupt the shipment of weapons to Israel from this air base.
For 90 minutes, they showed banners such as “Stop Arms for War Crimes” and “Stop Travis: No US Weapons for Genocide. ” They delayed traffic on the busy six-lane roadway into the base by frequently pressing the button to allow pedestrian crossing. Fliers were handed out to receptive drivers. The flyers asked “Why are we blocking access to Travis Air Base and messing up your day?”. It was explained that while November 20 is World Children’s Day, weapons to Israel from Travis are being used to kill children. Bombs loaded onto planes at Travis and other US air bases have killed many thousands of children.
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From the Nuclear Resister
(This chronicle of resistance was originally published in issues #202, #203/204 and #205 of the Nuclear Resister newsletter. This online version includes available updates and corrections, and was last updated on November 19, 2024.)
Since October of 2023, thousands of protests and direct actions around the world have called for a ceasefire and end to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In this day-by-day record of dissent, the Nuclear Resister has chronicled more than 10,000 arrests (and counting) in the U.S. and Canada on over 425 occasions across more than 140 cities and towns in 37 states and 5 provinces. More than one third of those have occurred on the campus of at least 70 colleges and universities. It marks the largest surge of anti-war arrests since mid-April, 2003, when the Nuclear Resister reported over 7,500 anti-war arrests in the U.S. alone in the lead-up to and first weeks of the second U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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A small group of activists with Veterans for Peace, CodePink and Ban Killer Drones converged October 13 – 19 in the southern Nevada desert at Creech Air Force Base (AFB) for a week of nonviolent resistance to the illegal US. drone warfare program. They traveled from four states for the 15th annual protest at the base, located an hour northwest of Las Vegas. Some participated for the entire week and others came when they could, but they shared one thing in common: an abhorrence of the inhumanity and illegality of the U.S. drone program that takes human life remotely and covertly from thousands of miles away.Some of the week’s twice-daily commute hour vigils emphasized the horrors of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, assisted remotely by U.S. drone pilots and operators. On October 16, a nonviolent blockade of the entrance road temporarily halted business as usual at the base with a large banner: “Send Food to Gaza, not Weapons to Israel”. Most blockaders stayed in the road until police gave dispersal orders. Toby Blomé held the blockade for as long as possible, displaying a sign directed at the Creech AFB commander: “Prosecute Col. Pederson 4 War Crimes.” She was arrested, detained for an hour, then cited and released.
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Four women have each been sentenced to two months in jail in New Hampshire, after pleading guilty in September to charges of misdemeanor criminal mischief and criminal trespass following their November 20, 2023 direct action to disrupt production at Elbit Systems in Merrimack. Elbit is notoriously Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, with factories and offices across both Great Britain and the United States being a focus of anti-war protest and direct action. During the November action, supporters had blocked the entry road before the morning shift arrived. Sophie Ross, Bridget Shergalis and Calla Walsh approached the Elbit factory, chained the doors shut, broke windows, marked graffiti and ascended to the roof of the building. Standing on the roof, they poured red paint down the front wall and held aloft colorful theatrical smoke flares that drew the attention of arriving workers to their protest.
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On October 14, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Catherine Hourcade crossed the boundary line of the Nevada National Security Site and was arrested. She was given a citation for trespass with a notice to appear in Nye County Court on December 9.
A short while earlier, she had joined with others in a Shoshone/Paiute sunrise ceremony, led by Jeremiah Jones. The group then walked the short distance to the entrance of the nuclear weapons test site. Carrying the tribal permit Jones had issued, granting Hourcade permission to be on Shoshone land, she entered test site property and handed the officer the permit along with her ID. He asked her why she had trespassed, and whether it was because of the Shoshone. “Yes!”, she replied, “This is sacred Shoshone land and you don’t belong here!” She told the officer about the contamination there because of nuclear bomb tests.
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by Chris NelsonCatherine Hourcade (retired RN from Stockton) and Chris Nelson (Nurse Practitioner from Chico) were arrested on October 9th at Beale Air Force Base in Marysville, California during a one-year anniversary commemoration of the genocide in Gaza. We are involved with Occupy Beale, a coalition of northern California peace activists who have demonstrated against militarism at Beale Air Force Base every month for 14 years.
Because October is “Keep Space for Peace” month, we also included this issue in the letter we addressed to the new base commander. Catherine and I read it to the military staff at the Main Gate of Beale, then gave it to an MP to be delivered to Colonel Keagan L. McLeese.
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October 11, 2024 While I’m in the prison, I feel wrapped in the kindness, generosity and community of the women in prison with me, and the kindness of guards. And while I’m out in the church and the community, I feel wrapped in kindness and compassion, and a generosity of spirit that continues to humble me. […]
September 12, 2024 Dear friends, I continue to be held, along with fellow nuclear resister Susan van der Hijden, in a German prison for demonstrating against the U.S. nuclear weapons that are illegally deployed at the Büchel air base, a German military base in Rhineland Pfalz. My out date is January 18, 2025. Another American who has […]
Dennis DuVall and wife Michelle Shiloh
October 31 Update
The Ausländeramt in Kamenz has decided that Dennis can stay in Germany until the Landesdirektion Sachsen in Dresden has made a decision on the Widerspruch presented by his attorney. In her appeal she is asking for a family residency permit for Dennis.
On October 31, Germany intends to expel U.S. citizen Dennis DuVall, 82, a resident of Radeberg, Germany, a member of Veterans For Peace, and a nuclear resister against U.S./NATO thermonuclear bombs deployed at Büchel NATO base in Germany.
The German expulsion order describes DuVall’s nuclear resistance as a serious threat to security and public order. DuVall believes he has a legal obligation to resist planning and preparation for nuclear war taking place at Büchel NATO base, a violation of international laws and a crime according to the Nuremberg Charter and Principles.
“B61-12 nuclear bombs and F35 warplanes at Büchel will push NATO closer to war,” warns DuVall, “and redeploying medium-range missiles in Germany also raises the alarm of a wider European war.”
DuVall invites peace and anti-war/anti-weapons groups and individuals to support his fight to remain in Germany. You can sign a petition by clicking here.
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