The Nuclear Resister E-bulletin August, 2011 IN THIS E-BULLETIN: 1) HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI DAYS RESISTANCE ROUND-UP 2) FR. CARL KABAT ARRESTED AT KANSAS CITY PLANT CONSTRUCTION SITE 3) FRANZ JAGERSTATTER PLOUGHSHARES IN AUSTRALIA 4) 170 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVISTS ENTER SWEDISH MILITARY SITE 5) 7 MONTHS FOR BRITISH CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR MICHAEL LYONS 6) SR. JACKIE HUDSON, PRESENTE! 7) NORM […]
Monthly Archive for August, 2011
Norman Lowry
Norman Lowry, jailed twice in recent years for protest at a military recruiting office in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was released Monday, June 27, after serving nearly 18 months for trespass and probation violation after his second arrest.
A few weeks later, Lowry wrote, “After searching God’s heart & being freed from the spiritual sludge of my last incarceration, I am convinced of God’s leading to simply stay the course & continue to say my simple & small ‘NO’.” He returned to the recruiting office on August 1 with the following statement, and remained there until police were summoned and he was again arrested.
Lowry intended to refuse to post bond, and expects to remain in jail until trial.
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Sung-Hee Choi (front, second from right), outside the prison. Photo by Youngsil Kang.
Korean peace activist Sung-Hee Choi was released from Jeju Island prison today, August 17, where she’d been held since May 19 on multiple charges of obstructing the business of naval base construction contractors. After a series of court hearings through the summer, Choi was convicted and sentenced to eight months in jail. A two-year stay on execution of the sentence was granted, effectively placing Choi on probation for that period.
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Retired Navy Captain Tom Rogers, in custody after blocking entrance to the Trident nuclear submarine base in Washington state. Photo by Leonard Eiger.
Among the hundreds of meetings, church services, vigils, teach-ins and demonstrations across the world marking the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, people engaged in acts of nuclear resistance were arrested at at least half a dozen places, including the world’s largest nuclear weapons profiteer, a nuclear weapons lab, nuclear military bases, and the Pentagon.
LOCKHEED/MARTIN
The Brandywine Peace Community and friends returned to Lockheed-Martin’s sprawling facility behind the King of Prussia Mall, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 6, the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The peace activists participated in a ceremony created for the occasion: Memory, Hope, & Peace – Incense, Water, and Sunflower Seeds.
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Jackie, joyfully subversive, at 3/1/09 Pacific Life Community action at Bangor, photo by Leonard Eiger
TRIBUTE TO JACKIE HUDSON, OP from her sisters in prison
Sister Jackie Hudson, OP – Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan, missioned to Ground Zero near Bangor Trident Naval Base, faith-filled and faithful peacemaker and organizer, strong preacher of truth, gentle and nonviolent woman, teacher, musician, plowshare activist and resister, was called before her unconditionally loving Judge on August 3, 2011.
PRESENTE!
Jackie crossed the fine line from life through death to life in the midst of her last action of many preceding it. With twelve others, she entered Y-12, Oak Ridge, Tennessee Uranium Processing and Production Plant on July 5, 2010. She was at trial from May 9-11 and incarcerated. During her time in two jails she found herself in solidarity with so many prisoners who lack health care. She suffered extreme pain and was placed in a medical confinement cell where she developed serious pneumonia and kidney failure. Her sentencing was scheduled for September 19. She will not appear before another earthly judge.
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Greetings People of Peace,
The world keeps turning and so does the machinery of madness (more on that further down the page); fortunately so do the wheels of sanity, nonviolence, justice, mercy and peacemaking. With less than a week before we commemorate the horrific atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki I thought it a good time for an update and some reflection.
As for our friends the Disarm Now Plowshares, things are fairly quiet (for now). Anne Montgomery has been enjoying her quiet,contemplative freedom since her release, and will no doubt rejoin her sisters down in California sometime soon. As for Bill “Bix” Bichsel, I wouldn’t know where to start. He is “covering the waterfront” as they say. Not long after his return from Knoxville I got a call, and Bix was asking about upcoming plans for the August weekend, Peace Fleet, Mayors for Peace… I think I ran out of paper trying to take notes!!! I trust we will see him this coming weekend standing strong outside the Bangor submarine base gate.
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