The Nuclear Resister
November 15, 2011
IN THIS E-BULLETIN, INCLUDING SEVERAL URGENT APPEALS:
1) THE U.N. IS TRYING TO MEET WITH BRADLEY MANNING –– Calls needed all this week
2) BLASTING IS IMMINENT ALONG GANGJEONG COASTLINE – Please email Jeju Governor Woo NOW
3) DR. DHAFIR TO BE RE-SENTENCED ON JANUARY 5 – Letters needed
4) WAR TAX RESISTERS ARRESTED AT SITE OF NEW KC NUCLEAR WEAPONS PLANT
5) HANCOCK 38 AWAIT VERDICT AFTER 5 DAY TRIAL FOR DRONE PROTEST
6) FR. BIX BEGINS 3 MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR Y-12 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT ACTION
7) WRITE A NOTE OF SUPPORT TO ANTI-NUCLEAR & ANTI-WAR PRISONERS
8) UPCOMING NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTIONS
The U.N. is trying to meet with Bradley Manning * Calls needed all this week
From the Bradley Manning Support Network:
National Call-in Week November 15-18! Occupy military phone lines!
Dear Supporters,
Please join us, and our partners, on this important action every day this week. We will update the website Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday with new contact information of key people we need to influence. We invite you to phone in your support for Bradley Manning.
On October 18, 2011, U.N. chief investigator on torture issues, Juan Mendez, confirmed that the Department of Defense has blocked his requests for an unmonitored meeting with PFC Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower. Mendez requested the meetings so that he could investigate what occurred during the 10 months that Bradley Manning was kept isolated in the military brig at Quantico, VA, under conditions condemned as illegal by 300 top U.S. legal scholars.
Read more here.
Blasting is imminent along Gangjeong coastline * Please email Jeju Governor Woo NOW
From the Save Jeju Island Global Campaign
Dear friends of Jeju Island,
On November 18th, the South Korean Navy is scheduled to blast Gureombi, the smooth volcanic rock along the coastline of Gangjeong village where the local people have been fighting day and night almost for 5 years to stop the naval base. Please take 5 minutes to be part of this global collective effort to stop this destructive blast.
Read more here.
Dr. Dhafir to be re-sentenced on January 5 * Letters needed
Jailed Iraqi-American physician and philanthropist Rafil Dhafir will be resentenced on January 5th, 2012 at 10 a.m. in the Federal Building in Syracuse, New York. Dhafir, imprisoned for the last five years at the high security Communications Management Unit in Terre Haute, Indiana, will not be present as he did not want to travel. Judge Mordue has granted his request that he not be present.
Dhafir was originally sentenced to nearly 22 years, but the federal appeals court, when remanding the case to the trial judge for re-sentencing last year on technical grounds, suggested an even longer term might be in order. Dhafir founded Help the Needy, a charity that directed more than $1M in aid to Iraqi civilians during the era of U.S. sanctions, 1991-2003. He was arrested February 26, 2003, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq.
Read more here.
War tax resisters arrested at site of new KC nuclear weapons plant
from National Catholic Reporter
Protest, arrests at nuclear site cap war tax resisters conference
by Robyn Haas
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Boil it down and war tax resisters have a simple strategy: Without taxes, the government can¹t buy guns and fight wars. And, capping their annual conference this weekend with a protest outside the nation¹s first new nuclear weapons manufacturing facility in three decades, some 60 war tax resisters said yesterday that the government shouldn¹t be able to build such facilities either.
Read more here.
Hancock 38 await verdict after 5 day trial for drone protest
by Carol Baum of the Syracuse Peace Council
After five long days in court, closing arguments were heard in the Hancock 38 Drone Resisters trial on Saturday, November 5. But it¹s not quite over Judge Gideon will give the verdict on Thursday, December 1 at 5 pm at the Town of DeWitt Court House (5400 Butternut Dr., East Syracuse). Please come. Dates can change, so contact SPC for updates.
Tuesday, November 1 marked the first day of the trial of the Hancock 38 Drone Resisters, activists from upstate New York and beyond who participated in a ³die-in² at the main entrance of Hancock Air National Guard Base just outside Syracuse last April. The action symbolized the indiscriminate killing of civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan by hunter-killer Reaper drones and protested the Reaper here and elsewhere. The defendants also attempted to deliver an indictment to the base commander focusing on the illegality of the drones; the indictment was taken and thrown to the ground.
Read more here.
Fr. Bix begins 3 month prison sentence for Y-12 nuclear disarmament action
Jesuit priest William “Bix” Bichsel reported to the SeaTac Federal Prison on November 10 after a prayer sendoff at Jean’s House of Prayer.
He was sentenced to 3 months in prison for his part in the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex resistance action in Oak Ridge, Tennessee on July 5, 2010. Michael Walli, Bonnie Urfer and Steve Baggarly are also currently serving prison sentences for that action.
Read more here.
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