9 arrested blocking gates of Beale Air Force Base in drone protest
On October 30, nine military veterans and peace activists were arrested at Beale Air Force Base in Marysville, California. The group – Barry Binks, Toby Blome, Fr. Louie Vitale…
October 2012
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24/7 construction met with 24/7 resistance on Jeju Island
Construction of the controversial navy base on Jeju Island, South Korea, is accelerating. In the last week, after months of delays due to local protest, a 24/7 operation has begun…
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Anti-drone protest shuts down Hancock Air Base – 17 arrested, 13 held in jail
On the morning of October 25, forty concerned citizens created a blockade of Hancock Air National Guard Base outside Syracuse, NY. MQ-9 Reaper drones are operated by remote control…
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Backcountry resisters infiltrate Vandenberg Air Force Base
NONVIOLENT BACKCOUNTRY RESISTERS CAUSE DISRUPTIVE BREACH OF VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE SECURITY ZONES from tierralinda@live.com For the first time in nearly a decade, nonviolent…
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Photos of Transform Now Plowshares action
PHOTOS OF PLOWSHARES PROTEST AGAINST NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND NEW BOMB PLANT PROPOSED FOR Y-12 COMPLEX IN OAK RIDGE ARE RELEASED The Transform Now Plowshares resisters, Michael Walli…
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Koodankulam women from prison: Tell everyone we are still here!
[Editor’s note: We are trying to find out the names and prison addresses of all of the anti-nuclear protesters in prison in India. Here is a conversation with some of the women in…
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Court hearing for Pentagon action ends with Beth Brockman jailed on outstanding warrant
The court hearing for the August 6th peace witness at the Pentagon took place on October 19 in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia before U.S. Magistrate Judge Buchanan…
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Stories from an insurrectionary childhood
Seamus Philip celebrated his three month birthday on Thursday. It was just like every other day — nursing and pooping, laughing and cooing, chewing on his hands and slobbering. He…
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Shut It Downers arrested for chaining themselves across Vermont Yankee driveway
VERNON, Vermont — Attired in hazmat suits to highlight the danger of radiation emissions from the Entergy Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, twelve women of the Shut It Down…
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Carl Kabat in court for nuclear weapons protest, gets “time served”
Father Carl Kabat, OMI (Oblates of Mary Immaculate), of St. Louis, in a Municipal Court trial Oct. 12 in Kansas City, Mo., got “time served” on two charges—trespassing this July 4…
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Catholic Worker Brian Terrell gets 6 month prison sentence for drone protest
Punishing Free Speech and Letting Murder Off the Hook, Justice Denied in Missouri On October 11, Brian Terrell and Ron Faust were sentenced at U.S. District Court in Jefferson…
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British anti-nuclear activists arrested at Hinkley Point
On October 8, six protesters were arrested during a mass trespass at the Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Somerset, England. Around 30 people went over the perimeter fence of…
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Veterans and allies arrested in New York as Afghanistan War enters year 12
Twenty-five people, most of them U.S. military veterans, were arrested while laying flowers at a war memorial in New York City October 7. They were engaged in a peaceful vigil to…
