December 2011

9 reports

  1. Dhafir moved from CMU; resentencing postponed

    Iraqi-American physician and humanitarian Dr. Rafil Dhafir, jailed nearly nine years on charges involving his charity to the people of his native country during the years of…

  2. Bradley Manning in court

    This post is updated with links to each day’s report of the Article 32 hearings, through Day 6, December 21 Day 1 – Getting into the Courtroom 7:35 AM Manning’s pretrial hearing…

  4. Remember a resister over the holidays

    Holiday Greetings People of Peace, Oh what a year it’s been! For those of us in the Anti-Nuclear and Anti-War Resistance Movement it has been a year of continued struggle against…

  5. British priest jailed for nonpayment of fine

    Fr. Martin Newell of the London Catholic Worker community was sentenced to 24 days imprisonment on Friday 9 December 2011 at Highbury Magistrates Court. Martin was brought before…

  6. ~ From Morgantown FCI, by Steve Baggarly

    The one thing which every jail and prison does more than anything else is counting people. We’re counted five times a day here. Three times we’re returned to our housing units to…

  7. British villagers block neighborhood nuke dump

    A private firm’s plan to dump low-level radioactive waste in their East Midlands landfill met with nonviolent resistance on the morning of December 2. Three days before, Kings…

  8. Drone Resisters Convicted, Jailed

    (From the Nuclear Resister #164, December 5, 2011. For a free copy of the current issue, email your postal address to nukeresister@igc.org.) After “many a sleepless night”, a town…

  9. German N-Waste Train Draws Record Resistance

    (From the Nuclear Resister #164, December 5, 2011. For a free copy of the current issue, email your postal address to nukeresister@igc.org.) The 12th and last of the scheduled rail…