The Nuclear Resister August, 2012 If you’d like a free issue of the new, comprehensive print edition of the Nuclear Resister, send your mailing address to nukeresister@igc.org IN THIS E-BULLETIN: 1) TRANSFORM NOW PLOWSHARES: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT ACTION AT Y-12 2) SHAKIR HAMOODI BEGINS 3 YEAR SENTENCE FOR VIOLATING IRAQ SANCTIONS – Support Action Request 3) […]
Monthly Archive for August, 2012
Editors’ Note: Mark Neiweem spoke with a supporter last night (8/27) and, contrary to some reports, he is receiving mail while in solitary. Letters should be sent to him at the address listed in Inside & Out.
by Occupy Chicago Press Relations on Monday, August 27, 2012 at 4:51 a.m.
CHICAGO — On Thursday morning, August 23, attorneys for Mark Neiweem filed an emergency motion to preserve evidence related to a beating Neiweem sustained at the hands of Cook County sheriffs earlier in the week that sent him to the Cook County Hospital.
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(From the Society of the Sacred Heart)
Anne Montgomery, RSCJ
Birth: November 30, 1926
Profession: March 5, 1951
Death: August 27, 2012
Prominent peace activist Anne Montgomery, RSCJ, died Monday, August 27 at Oakwood, the Society of the Sacred Heart’s elder care center in Atherton, California. Known around the world for her commitment to peace, Sister Montgomery was incarcerated many times after witnessing to peace and justice through acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, in protest of nuclear weapons. Her life will be celebrated in a Mass of Resurrection at Oakwood on a date yet to be determined.
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Iraqi-American Shakir Hamoodi will turn himself in to a federal prison on August 28 to serve a three year sentence for personal charity sent to family in Iraq in violation of the 1991-2003 sanctions on such trade. Family and friends of the Columbia, Missouri import grocer ask that supporters sign the petition for Presidential pardon, from the link at helphamoodi.org. Please see Inside & Out after August 29 for his prison address.
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The Nuclear Resister June/July, 2012 IN THIS E-BULLETIN: 1) FR. CARL KABAT ARRESTED AGAIN AT THE KANSAS CITY PLANT 2) FORTY ACTIVISTS ARRESTED AT VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 3) FIFTEEN DRONE PROTESTERS ARRESTED AT HANCOCK AIR BASE 4) ACTIONS AT SCOTLAND’S FASLANE TRIDENT BASE 5) WOMEN RETURN TO ENTERGY HEADQUARTERS, 8 ARRESTED 6) […]
Oakland sit-in
Veterans led the way as supporters of imprisoned army private and accused whistleblower Bradley Manning occupied several Obama presidential campaign offices on the west coast. The August 16 sit-ins led to arrests in Oakland, California and Portland, Oregon.
In Oakland, about 100 people participated in the sit-in. Campaign staff eventually agreed to email their letter (see below) to the national headquarters. Six people continued to occupy the office and wait for Obama’s response, but were arrested instead.
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photo by by Mary Lou Anderson
Culminating a week of peace events as part of Nevada Desert Experience’s August Desert Witness, six protesters were arrested at the Nevada Test Site (Nevada National Security Site) on Thursday morning, August 9th, in memory of the victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, 67 years ago.
Dennis DuVall (of Prescott, AZ), Jim Haber (of Las Vegas, NV), Robert Majors (of Las Vegas, NV), John Owen (of Los Angeles, CA), Janice Sevre-Duszynska (of Lexington, KY), and Louis Vitale (of Oakland, CA) walked with a community of 15 other activists, including Johnnie Bobb and Deanna Bobb of the Western Shoshone nation, through the blazing, early morning sun in the Nevada desert, from the sunrise ceremony’s fire circle to the Nevada Test Site line.
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Six Peacemakers Arrested at the Pentagon to Commemorate the 67th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by Art Laffin
On August 6, the 67th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombings of Hiroshima, and feast of the Transfiguration, members of the Atlantic Life Community (ALC) held nonviolent actions at the Pentagon and the Enola Gay war plane which is on display at the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum.
Wearing sack cloth and ashes, carrying photos of bombing victims, and holding one banner calling for repentance of the bombing and another banner which read: Why Harbor Evil Thoughts in Your Hearts? (Mt. 9:4), about 15 peacemakers held a mostly silent witness at the Pentagon. In between periods of silence we read the Transfiguration Gospel account and a short poem by Dan Berrigan, S.J. (see below), and offered a song about a Hiroshima child, I Come and Stand. Following the song, the group processed out of the fenced off designated protest area and six went onto the sidewalk near the Pentagon metro entrance and remained there to pray in silence. After several warnings the six were placed under arrest and taken to a new processing site on the Pentagon grounds, formerly used as a day care center. They were charged with violating a lawful order and released with a court date on October 19.
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