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Two women arrested at RAF Lakenheath, protesting the return of U.S. nuclear weapons to the U.K.

Posted on August 1, 2024

Lakenheath Alliance for Peace photo

Angie Zelter and Ginnie Herbert were arrested at a protest at a U.S. air force base in Suffolk, England on July 20, and were held for nearly 24 hours before being released from custody.

The arrests came on the sixth day of a peace camp established outside RAF Lakenheath to protest the return of U.S. nuclear weapons to the U.K. Around 60 people attended a rally which took place on a grass verge outside the base, and listened to speakers including CND general secretary Kate Hudson. Several women donned T-shirts spelling out “NO NATO” and briefly formed a line across the main entrance.
Five women then walked through the main gate of the base, intending to deliver a letter to the base commanders, asking them to stop U.S. nuclear weapons returning to Lakenheath. Suffolk police officers intercepted the women, informed them that the base commanders would not be coming to meet them, and asked them to leave or be arrested under the Serious Organized Crime Prevention Act. Three of the woman left, while Zelter and Herbert sat down and said they would stay until a base commander was available to meet them. Both were arrested and taken to Bury St Edmunds Police Station, where they were questioned and released on bail, with formal charges to be given at a later date. 

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~ from Koblenz Open Prison, Germany – Prison reflections by Susan Crane and Susan van der Hijden

Posted on July 30, 2024

Vigil behind Bars  July 30, 2024 Dear friends, Greetings from the open prison of Koblenz. Since July 30th, we have exchanged the Rohrbach prison desert, where most women are locked up alone or in pairs for 21 hours or more a day, for the relative freedom of a so-called open prison. Did the devil tempt […]

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American nuclear resister begins second prison sentence in Germany

Posted on July 23, 2024

Photo by Michelle Shiloh

JULY 29 UPDATE: Someone anonymously paid Dennis DuVall’s fine and he was released from prison.

On July 22, accompanied by his wife and friends, 82-year-old Dennis DuVall reported to Bautzen prison in Germany. The American citizen, who has lived in Germany for six years, will be serving a 90 day sentence for nonpayment of fines for protest actions at Büchel air base, where U.S. nuclear weapons are stored. The Veterans for Peace member spent 60 days in the same prison in 2023, also for actions at Büchel.

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Blockades block liberation: How blockades obstruct nonviolence and democratic revolutions

Posted on July 13, 2024

Swedish nonviolence educator and Plowshares activist Per Herngren

by Per Herngren

When civil disobedience spread across Europe and the United States, the biggest mistake was perhaps the fixation on blockades. In the rich part of the world, the blockade has been made the dominant method of civil disobedience. In this text, various reasons are analyzed as to why Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Mohandas Gandhi did not use blockades.

Gandhi used proactive and performative resistance, and the goal became the means of the struggle, “means and ends are convertible terms”. (Mohandas Gandhi, 1939.) The desired solution to the problem was turned into the method of civil disobedience. When local salt extraction and cotton production were monopolized by the colonial power, Gandhi, together with others, mined salt and spun cotton, breaking the colonial monopoly. This is called performative in queer feminist theory and is similar to Gandhi’s concept of nonviolence, where means and ends are the same. A performative is an action that realizes its vision.

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9,000 arrests in nine months call for CEASEFIRE NOW!

Posted on July 6, 2024

Photo by David Solnit

Click here for the latest update, “10,000 arrests demand CEASEFIRE NOW!”

From the Nuclear Resister

(This chronicle of resistance is published in issues #202 and #203/204 of the Nuclear Resister newsletter, and online at nukeresister.org. Last updated on July 11.)

Since October of 2023, thousands of protests and 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 9,000 arrests (and counting) in the U.S. and Canada on over 350 occasions across more than 125 cities and towns in 36 states and 5 provinces. Over 3,400 of these arrests have taken place on at least 70 university campuses. 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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Nuclear Resister issue #203/204

Posted on July 6, 2024

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~ from USP Coleman 1, by Leonard Peltier

Posted on July 6, 2024

Leonard Peltier June 26th Statement 2024 © Greetings my Friends, Family, Loved Ones, and Supporters, Hope is a hard thing here. But I always hold hope in you, My People. Pay attention. The parole decision on July 11th may show you what justice truly means to this nation and to whom it is meant for. […]

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Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier, 79-years-old, denied parole

Posted on July 3, 2024

Self portrait by Leonard Peltier

From the Leonard Peltier Ad Hoc Committee

July 3, 2024
STATEMENT OF ATTORNEYS FOR LEONARD PELTIER REGARDING JULY 2, 2024 PAROLE DECISION
This fight is not over until it is over. Lead Attorney Jenipher Jones and Attorney Moira Meltzer-Cohen, who are leading both the administrative appeal and litigation efforts on behalf of Mr. Peltier, will appeal the United State Parole Commission’s grotesquely unconstitutional decision.
In a moment of bitter irony, as the nation heads into the 4th of July Independence Day holiday, the United States Parole Commission failed to recommend Leonard Peltier, who is the longest-serving Indigenous political prisoner in the United States, for release. The USPC’s July 2, 2024 decision continues to impose upon Mr. Peltier a slow Death by Incarceration. The Parole Commission’s decision only illustrates the truth of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention report stating that Leonard’s incarceration constitutes an arbitrary detention and noting his parole hearings as a key contributing factor to what they have characterized as his unjustly prolonged incarceration.

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~ from Rohrbach Prison, Germany – Prison reflections by Susan Crane and Susan van der Hijden

Posted on June 20, 2024

Vigil behind Bars – For a Disarmed World  JVA Rohrbach  June 2024 Here in Rohrbach prison we are awakened by the sounds of doves and other birds, giving the illusion that all is well in the world, until other sounds, keys rattling, doors being shut, and guards doing the morning body check, bring us back […]

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~ from USP Coleman 1, by Leonard Peltier

Posted on June 6, 2024

February 6, 2024© My life was taken 48 years ago, at 11:00 a.m. The sweater that my adoptive mother Ethel and her daughter Donna placed on my shoulders as I was taken in the bitter cold of Canada was a kindness that I still remember. I could not foresee that 48 years later I would […]

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