Snow delays sentencing of Transform Now Plowshares
Today’s sentencing hearing in federal court in Knoxville, Tennessee for three nuclear disarmament activists was continued to February 18 after a winter storm forced early closure…
January 2014
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U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People visits Leonard Peltier in prison
“… new consideration should be given to clemency for Leonard Peltier.” Professor James Anaya On Friday January 24, 2014, United Nations Special Rapporteur, Professor James Anaya…
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Protester arrested for trespassing at Y-12 nuclear weapons complex in Oak Ridge, TN
Christopher Spicer, a graduate student at Boston College’s Master of Divinity program, was arrested by Oak Ridge City Police and charged with trespass when he apparently stepped…
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Letters from a Georgia Jail: Anti-Nuclear Activists Await Sentencing
We are truly human when we act responsibly to restore harmony and act with love and compassion to restore truth, transparency and the equitable distribution of the resources…
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Nine women arrested at Entergy Headquarters in Brattleboro
BRATTLEBORO, Vermont—Acting on their conviction that governments, regulatory agencies, and corporations fail to honor the public trust, nine women of the Shut It Down Affinity…
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Activists honor Dr. King by acting against nuclear weapons; 11 arrested at Bangor sub base and Lockheed Martin
On January 18, 2014 activists from a Puget Sound-based nuclear abolition group engaged in a nonviolent direct action at the US Navy’s West Coast nuclear submarine and nuclear…
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Irish peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy jailed
Margaretta D’Arcy arrested in Galway yesterday A 79-year old feminist, peace activist, film-maker and member of Aosdána has been jailed for three months in Limerick Prison in…
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Navy base foes in & out of Jeju court & jail
This fall the Korean Prime Minister’s office declared that the conflict over the naval base in Gangjeong village had been resolved. “The disclosure came as a surprise to the…
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Quaker’s anti-war beliefs land him in jail
from the Register-Star by John Mason, Columbia-Greene Media Dr. Joseph Olejak, a chiropractor with a successful practice in Delmar, is spending his weekends in Columbia County Jail…
