From Susan Crane, Koblenz Open Prison, Germany January 12, 2025 After entering a German prison on June 4, 2024, I will be released on January 17, 2025 – more than 7 months of incarceration for convictions resulting from nonviolent actions at Büchel air base in Germany, where U.S. nuclear weapons are deployed. The nonviolent actions at the […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
April 9, 2023 Easter Sunday To the Nuclear Resister, I’m a US citizen serving a 60-day sentence in Bautzen Prison, Germany, for protesting to stop preparations for nuclear war at Büchel NATO base in Germany. Today, Easter Sunday, I’m reflecting that nuclear weapons are an abomination to Nature, Humanity and all Creation! Nuclear weapons are […]
March 8, 2023 Dear Nukewatch friends, colleagues, comrades, Please forgive me if you’ve already gotten this wordy report of my recent experience in struggling against the U.S. H-bombs in Europe. In case you hadn’t heard, I was sentenced to 50 days for refusing to pay fines imposed following trespass convictions for go-in actions (which involved […]
January 15, 2023 This month has three important political anniversaries, anti-war and anti-nuclear holidays if you will, events I’ll celebrate privately for a change, since I’m temporarily cooling my heels in a German prison on the west end of Hamburg. It’s not that I killed or robbed very many people, but I have acted contemptuously […]