21 reports
TWO HOUR BLOCKADE PREVENTS HUNDREDS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL FROM ENTERING DRONE SUPPORT BASE Marysville, California – Five people were arrested around 8 a.m. on April 30 after dozens of anti-drone…
DEFENDANTS MAY NOT TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH – ONLY THE PART THE JUDGE ALLOWS Judge Amul Thapar issued rulings on a number of motions before him in the Transform Now…
from The Hindu The police on Saturday, April 20 arrested as many as 146 activists, including 105 men, 36 women and five children of the Anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project People’s…
from the Washington Post by Dan Zak Last summer, in the dead of night, three peace activists penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure…
From the War Resisters Support Campaign, Canada TORONTO — On Monday afternoon, during a court-martial hearing at Fort Carson, Colorado, Kimberly Rivera was sentenced to 14 months in military prison…
Dear Friends, Next week (May 6th) our friends from the Transform Now Plowshares community will begin trial before Federal District Judge Amul Thapar in Knoxville, TN. Since last year their…
ACTIVISTS PRESS HANCOCK AIR BASE TO OBEY INTERNATIONAL LAW from Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars Thirty one members of the “Upstate Coalition to Ground the…
DALLAS, TEXAS — Two activists wearing large paper mache masks resembling former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney were arrested Thursday, April 25 for stepping into…
from Amnesty International URGENT ACTION – April 19, 2013 Activist Liu Yuandong, a businessman, was detained on 23 February in Guangzhou, China after he took part in a protest against…
from the Shut It Down affinity group Vernon, Vermont—Accompanied by the drums and prayers of the monks and nuns of the New England Peace Pagoda, the Shut It Down Affinity…
by Ralph Hutchison, OREPA HE WALKS AROUND WITH IT BY HIS SIDE The judge interrupted the questioning of former Attorney General Ramsey Clark as he testified at a hearing in…
In the final weeks of a six month prison sentence for protesting remote control murder by drones, specifically from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, I can only reflect on…
(Adapted from press releases at nato5support.wordpress.com) Mark Neiweem, a 28-year-old Chicago activist, pleaded guilty in Cook County Court April 11 to felony charges brought on by interactions with undercover Chicago…
from Witness Against Torture Responding to reports that 84 men — more than half of those imprisoned at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay — are hunger striking to…
Vernon, Vermont – Two women of the Shut It Down Affinity Group face charges of trespass and vandalism after police arrested them on Monday, April 15 in the Vermont Yankee…
from Scrap Trident Hundreds of people from across the UK, France and as far away as New Zealand converged on Faslane Naval Base in Scotland, homeport to Trident, at 7…
from Save Jeju Now UPDATE ON YANG YOON-MO ON HIS 68TH DAY IN PRISON Yang Yoon-Mo hit his 68th prison day on Monday, April 8. On April 10, he will…
by Sung-Hee Choi [see updates below] April 8 and 9 While company workers block the gates [of the site of a new naval base being constructed on Jeju Island, South…
by Ralph Hutchison, OREPA The Oak Ridge, Tennessee city police joined forces with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in an effort to stifle any public voice in opposition to…
by Ralph Hutchison Today was the day we met our new judge; Amul Thapar came down from Covington, KY to take over the Transform Now Plowshares case from the docket…
[May 1 update: Steve Kelly is now being held at FDC SeaTac. You can write him a note of support: Stephen Kelly, #00816-111, FDC SeaTac, P.O. Box 13900, Seattle, WA…
