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 LOWRY RETURNS TO MILITARY RECRUITING OFFICE, AND JAIL
8) SUNG-HEE CHOI RELEASED FROM KOREAN PRISON; JEJU RESISTANCE MOUNTS
9) WRITE A NOTE OF SUPPORT TO ANTI-NUCLEAR & ANTI-WAR PRISONERS
10) UPCOMING NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTIONS
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Days resistance round-up
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.
Read more here.
Fr. Carl Kabat arrested at Kansas City Plant construction site – Crane Pruning Hook
Fr. Carl Kabat entered the construction site of the new nuclear bomb factory in Kansas City, Missouri at approximately 10:00 p.m. on July 3. At dawn on July 4 he had broken the cab windows of a couple of large pieces of construction equipment present there, and hung a small hand-made sign declaring “Nuclear Weapons are a Crime Against God and Humanity”.
Read more here.
Franz Jagerstatter Ploughshares in Australia
For over two months Bryan Law has been telling the authorities and everyone else he was going to disarm a military helicopter during the Talisman/Sabre U.S./Australian military exercises, as an act of nonviolent resistance to the Afghan war.
Friends and foes alike barely believed it possible. But in broad daylight at 9 a.m. on July 21, Graeme Dunstan helped Law cut the lock on a perimeter fence at Rockhampton Airport and Law, despite very poor health from diabetes, rode his tricycle onto the tarmac and hammered on the helicopter with a garden mattock.
Read more here.
170 international activists enter Swedish military site
On July 26, one hundred and seventy international peace activists from 17 countries entered the North European Aerospace Test range in a massive act of nonviolent civil disobedience in the north of Sweden. Some 28 activists have been confirmed as arrested or detained, among them activists from Venezuela, Spain, Germany, Germany, UK and Finland.
Read more here.
7 months for British conscientious objector Michael Lyons
A military court in Portsmouth sentenced British conscientious objector Michael Lyons to seven months’ imprisonment on July 5, following a two-day trial.
Michael Lyons joined the Royal Navy as a medic in 2005, and in May 2010 he was notified that he would be deployed to Afghanistan later that year. Soon after, he applied for discharge as a conscientious objector, as he had developed a conscientious objection to participating in the war in Afghanistan in particular, and war in general.
Read more here.
Sr. Jackie Hudson, Presente!
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.
Read more here.
Norm Lowry returns to military recruiting office, and jail
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.
Read more here.
Sung-Hee Choi released from Korean prison; Jeju resistance mounts
Korean peace activist Sung-Hee Choi was released from Jeju Island prison on 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.
Read more here.
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