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~ from USP Leavenworth, by Greg Boertje-Obed, with a reflection from his wife, Michele Naar-Obed

Greg and Michele (on left) with Eric Johnson and Art Laffin at Knoxville Federal Courthouse in May 2013

Greg and Michele (on left) with Eric Johnson and Art Laffin at Knoxville Federal Courthouse in May 2013. Photo by Felice Cohen-Joppa

From Via Pacis, newsletter of the Des Moines Catholic Worker

Greg Boertje-Obed and Michele Naar-Obed are not new to the Plowshares scene. They met and married while living at Jonah House and being a part of the Good News Plowshares. Their child Rachel was born at Jonah House. Greg has done a total of five Plowshares actions and Michele has done two. Michele has spent close to three years working with Christian Peace Maker Teams in Iraq. For the past 11 years they have been members of the Duluth Catholic Worker community. Greg is currently serving a five-year sentence at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary for his participation in the Transform Now Plowshares. Michele is part of the new Hildegard Catholic Worker House in Duluth. She was one of the Des Moines St. Pat’s 7 and served 48 hours in our Polk County Jail. We asked them both to write for this issue of Via Pacis in hopes to highlight their faithful lives and need of support.

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~ from MDC Brooklyn, by Sr. Megan Rice

Megan Rice 88101-020
MDC Brooklyn
Metropolitan Detention Center
P.O. Box 329002
Brooklyn, NY 11232

May 7, 2014

Dear Friends of the Transform Now Plowshares (TNP),

I open this letter for May, 2014 with a prayer for each of us sent to me by one of our 25 SOAW 1998 Prisoners of Conscience, Rita Lucey, who joins us in our community of 2014 TNP action supporters and nuclear resisters: (thanks for sharing, Rita!)

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~ from MDC Brooklyn, by Sr. Megan Rice

April 6, 2014 Dear sisters and brothers, at-one-with us all in this Beloved Community of participants in support of disarming now, and transforming now, the nuclear-industrial complex, wherever it rears its rapacious heads! Greetings from the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn. I arrived about ten days ago, after a BOP transit tour, […]

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~ from Irwin County Detention Center, by Sr. Megan Rice

photo by Felice Cohen-Joppa

photo by Felice Cohen-Joppa

[Sr. Megan Rice has been transferred from the Irwin County Detention Center.  You can write to her at: Megan Rice 88101-020, Metropolitan Detention Center, P.O. Box 329002, Brooklyn, NY 11232.]

March 2, 2014
Ocilla, GA

Dear sisters and brothers, united as we are in efforts to transform weapons of war (alá Y-12, etc.) into projects fostering LIFE in all its fullness, restorative of justice, and healing for our planet and for the children…

Surely, our days since January 14, when we departed from Ocilla at 3:00 a.m. to arrive in the Knoxville office of the U.S. Marshall at 10:30 a.m., have been packed with learning experiences. These merit reflection. They even deserve to be communicated as events calling for our shared response.

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~ from USP Coleman, Spring Statement by Leonard Peltier

free-lp-1Greetings my friends, relatives, supporters, and all those who support the cause of freedom, not only for Native Americans, but for all people.

I know it’s sometimes not easy being involved and staying involved, so for all of you that have done just that, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart to the top of my soul.  We need more people all over the world who not only care about the freedom of others, but who care about our future generations and what kind of Earth we leave behind.

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~ from SCI Dallas, by Norman Lowry

On the wall at the foot of my bed hangs a picture of a gateway through which lies the residue of life never fully realized.  At this site, eight years prior to my birth, the United States of America purposefully melted hundreds of thousands of people, with a fire hotter than the sun.  Next to this haunting image of Hiroshima hangs a picture of a female Buddhist cleric, peacefully sitting amid gasoline-fueled flames, whose outstretched arms seem to be inviting me to accept her love and forgiveness for my country’s choice to war against and to decimate her native Vietnam. 

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~ from Jeju Prison, by Kim Young-Jae

August 1, 2013

Hello,

My name is Kim Young-Jae, and I am currently incarcerated for trying to stop the construction of a U.S. Naval base in Jeju, Korea.

I am very grateful to get the newspaper from the Nuclear Resister and the card of support you sent.

I want to thank all of you who have supported our efforts to stop naval base construction in Jeju, a beautiful island of peace. I feel a deep sense of solidarity with those of you who support peace.

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~ from the Irwin County Detention Center, by Michael Walli

Michael Walli and the other two members of the Transform Now Plowshares joined with supporters for street theater in downtown Knoxville before walking to court for the beginning of their trial.  May 6, 2013.  Photo by Felice Cohen-Joppa

Michael Walli with supporters during street theater in downtown Knoxville before the beginning of the Transform Now Plowshares trial. May 6, 2013. Photo by Felice Cohen-Joppa

ELEVATING THE HOST

Four times our corners of ninety
The circle of charity embracing all
Is unbroken with 360
In leap year take a mind leap
Make your election sure
To the House of Bread
Christmas comes full circle
When our foursquare
New Jerusalem comes down from Heaven
Santa Maria sank at Christmas
In the depths of humility Her Soul
Magnified the Glory of The Lord
Who casts down the mighty
From their thrones
And exalts the lowly
She never went back to the Old World
She chastises not a born again Scrooge
She abides at the Cross

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~ from Pontiac, Illinois by Mark Neiweem

OPEN COMMUNIQUÉ BY MIGS (MARK NEIWEEM), NATO 5 PRISONER July 1, 2013 Greetings of solidarity, comrades and friends. I sincerely hope this communiqué finds all of you in the very best of health and highest of revolutionary spirits. I am coming to all of you with all the love and admiration in my heart to […]

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~ from SCI Dallas (PA), by Norman Edgar Lowry, Jr.

Prisoner of Conscience:  Endure by Norman Lowry May 28, 2013 “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”  — Mohandas K. Gandhi In her autobiography FALLING LEAVES, author Adeline Yen Mah gifts us with the beauty of her Chinese heritage.  To her, the word “ren” (endure) represents […]

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