On April 1, nine members of the Nevada Desert Experience’s Sacred Peace Walk were arrested at Creech Air Force Base at approximately 7:20 a.m. Holding a banner that read “Active Duty and National Guard: You have a duty to Refuse Illegal Orders”, they blocked the road leading into the base to disrupt an illegal, immoral and murderous war. Reaper drones are already engaged in combat by remote control from drone bases in the U.S.
Activist Diane Wilson, executive director of San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper (SABEW), was arrested while attempting to hand-deliver her list of demands to Dow Chemical in Seadrift, Texas. She was charged with criminal trespass and released from the Calhoun County Jail after midnight. At the time of her arrest on March 26, she was more than three weeks into an open-ended hunger strike demanding that Dow rescind their permit applications to legalize plastic pollution and build four experimental nuclear reactors at the facility in Seadrift. On the same day, fellow SABEW organizer Dan Lê was arrested while disrupting Dow CEO Jim Fitterling’s speech at CERAWeek by S&P Global – a gigantic oil and gas conference hosted annually in Houston, Texas.
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Patrick O’Neill being arrested on his 70th birthday
by Art Laffin, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker
On March 27, on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Patrick O’Neill, a longtime Catholic Worker, parent and grandparent, about 100 people held a special peace witness at the Pentagon, the epicenter of warmaking on the planet, to pray for peace, decry the US-Israeli immoral and illegal war in Iran, call for the abolition of all war and all nuclear and conventional weapons, and to invite people to follow the nonviolent Jesus. It was the largest anti-war protest at the Pentagon in recent years.
Since last October, the Pentagon has banned the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker weekly peace vigil in the fenced off “designated protest area” on the southeast side of the Pentagon, citing that the needs a permit group and doesn’t have “official business” at the Pentagon, thus effectively prohibited protests on Pentagon property. This is the first nonviolent action to challenge this ban.
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© Denis Meyer / Greenpeace
A cargo ship coming from Russia is blocked
from Greenpeace
March 2, 2026
This morning in the port of Dunkirk, around twenty Greenpeace activists blocked the arrival of the cargo ship Mikhail Dudin from Saint Petersburg to protest the nuclear trade between Russia and France. For two years, France has presented itself as a staunch supporter of Ukraine against the Russian aggressor. Yet, behind the scenes, the French nuclear industry (EDF, Framatome, and Orano) continues to do business with Rosatom, the Russian nuclear company complicit in war crimes.
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Photo by George Rodkey
On the morning of March 5, more than 40 nuclear resisters of many faiths took part in a procession to the entrance of Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor from the nearby Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington. Twelve of the Pacific Life Community (PLC) activists, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, walked into the roadway to block traffic. They held signs and displayed a large banner with a quote from Pope Francis: “The Use and Possession of Nuclear Weapons is Immoral”. Some of them carried small bundles wrapped in white shrouds, symbolizing infant victims of war.
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April 28, 2026 update: Grzegorz Gaweł was released from prison and returned to Poland.
A 27-year-old Polish Carmelite monk now sits in a Belarusian prison, facing a possible death sentence on suspicion of espionage after reportedly being found with a photocopy of a classified document related to the “Zapad-2025” war games involving the Russian nuclear weapons now stationed in Belarus.
On September 4, 2025, when Grzegorz Gawel was visiting the town of Lepel, north of Minsk, officers of the Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) followed the monk into a town park and took video as he met an unidentified Belarusian man who handed him a sheaf of papers. Video of Gawel’s arrest minutes later was soon broadcast on state television to support the charge that he sought the sensitive papers on behalf of Polish state intelligence agencies. It was alleged he had “contacted a Belarusian citizen via social media and offered to cooperate with the Polish special services.”
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photo by Paul Sheldon
A faithful group of activists from the Brandywine Peace Community gathered on a cold Martin Luther King Day at the entrance to the King of Prussia facility of Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest nuclear weapons contractor and war profiteer. There were readings from King’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the sounding of a large gong commemorating the lives lost to war and injustice.
Paul Sheldon then entered Lockheed Martin property to talk with employees concerning their deadly work, but partway there he was stopped by Lockheed Martin security. Paul spoke with them about Lockheed Martin’s supplying technological tools to the Department of Homeland Security (which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement – ICE), and handed them a copy of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. When he attempted to go further, he was arrested for trespassing.
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Two nuclear resisters represented themselves at a September 2 bench trial before Judge Robert Forman in Pima County Consolidated Justice Court.
John Heid and Elizabeth Murray had been arrested during a prayerful nonviolent resistance action on Ash Wednesday, March 5 at the Raytheon weapons factory in Tucson, Arizona. Together with members of the Pacific Life Community, they gathered outside of Raytheon that day for a prayer vigil to protest the development and production of a new nuclear missile at the plant. They both were charged with misdemeanor trespass after continuing their prayers onto Raytheon’s property.
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The Nuclear Resister has produced the following series of Nuclear Resister Stories for Nuclear Hotseat, a weekly podcast produced by Libbe HaLevy. In these 5-minute episodes, Jack Cohen-Joppa tells stories of actions for a nuclear-free future, culled from the archives of the Nuclear Resister newsletter.
#1 The first nuclear resisters
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Solemn and Powerful Gathering at the Livermore Lab Gates on the 80th Anniversary of the US Bombing of Hiroshima
by Marylia Kelley and Scott Yundt
Around 100 people gathered at the Westgate entrance to Livermore Lab on the morning of Tuesday, August 6, 2025 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
The theme of the event was, 80 Years of Nuclear Devastation: Remember our History, Reshape Our Future.
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