the Nuclear Resister
November 2012
DECEMBER 1 IS PRISONERS FOR PEACE DAY
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IN THIS E-BULLETIN:
1) BRADLEY MANNING TESTIFIES, FIRST TIME TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC SINCE HIS ARREST
2) POSSIBLE SABOTAGE CHARGES AGAINST TRANSFORM NOW PLOWSHARES sign petition now
3) BRIAN TERRELL BEGINS 6 MONTH SENTENCE FOR DRONE ACTION support needed
4) ANTI-NUCLEAR POWER BLOCKADES AT SIZEWELL & HINKLEY POINT
5) PROTESTER ARRESTED AT FT. BENNING
6) IMPRISONED ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVISTS IN INDIA letters to officials needed
7) ARRESTS CONTINUE IN PROTEST OF JEJU NAVAL BASE
8) NINE ARRESTED PROTESTING DRONES AT BEALE AIR FORCE BASE
9) BAGS & YARD SIGNS FOR SALE – NUCLEAR POWER, NO THANKS!
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12) WRITE A NOTE OF SUPPORT TO ANTI-NUCLEAR & ANTI-WAR PRISONERS
13) UPCOMING NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTIONS
Bradley Manning testifies, first time to speak in public since his arrest
Accused Army whistleblower Bradley Manning testified on November 29 and 30 at a motions hearing for court martial proceedings in Quantico, Virginia. It was the first time he spoke in public since his arrest and imprisonment 917 days ago in May 2010.
Manning testified about the abusive treatment he was subjected to in captivity, in support of a motion to dismiss the charges against him or at least mitigate any punishment should he be convicted.
Read more here.
Possible sabotage charges against Transform Now Plowshares
sign petition now
Please sign the petition at Change.org addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to not allow any additional charges to be brought against the Transform Now Plowshares – Greg Boertje-Obed, Michael Walli and Sr. Megan Rice. The two additional charges of sabotage that are being considered carry maximum possible 20 and 30 year prison sentences.
Read more here.
Brian Terrell begins 6 month sentence for drone action
support needed
Friends,
A last message as I prepare to “surrender” to federal authorities in Yanton, SD, for six months on Friday, November 30:
Thank you for the outpouring of support, prayers and solidarity in the weeks since my sentencing.
Read more here.
Anti-nuclear power blockades at Sizewell & Hinkley Point
SIZEWELL
Days after EDF announced plans to build a fourth nuclear reactor at the Sizewell nuclear park on England’s east coast, several people blocked the entry gate on Monday morning, November 26. The announcement kicked off an 11-week consultation period, which protesters said was not long enough for full evaluation of the proposal, amounting to “a sham process which is nothing more than a cynical box-ticking exercise.”
Read more here.
HINKLEY POINT
At 6 a.m. on November 23, 10 protestors blockaded access to EDF Energy’s nuclear sites at Hinkley Point in England, preventing the morning shift from starting work. Four people in arm locks formed a barrier across the main access road at Wick Moor Drove in a bid to prevent further ground clearance work at the planned Hinkley C site and to protest EDF’s plan to extend the life of aging reactors at the Hinkley B station.
Read more here.
Protester arrested at Ft. Benning
The largest annual anti-militarization gathering in North America took place in Columbus, Georgia, from November 16-18, 2012.
Nashua Chantal, who stood in silence with the message “Study War No More” painted across his face during the symbolic funeral march, crossed the line onto the military base. The base is home to the U.S. Army School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001), a training facility that has turned out some of Latin America’s most notorious killers. Chantal was arrested after he crossed over the barbed wire. He is facing up to six months in federal prison for his courageous act of civil disobedience.
Read more here.
Imprisoned anti-nuclear activists in India
letters to officials needed
The popular movement to prevent the start-up of India’s Koodankulam nuclear power station has so far succeeded, but at the cost of demonstrators’ lives and mass arrests. Three women from the neighboring fishing village of Idinthakarai remain in jail, denied bail and charged with multiple offenses including sedition. The region for miles around the reactor remains under state siege. Police at checkpoints and in sand-bagged bunkers are keeping thousands of indicted villagers and leaders of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) from leaving the area at India’s southern tip, and foreign media and supporters from entering. Tensions remain high. The latest postponement has pushed back the projected date for the reactor to begin critical chain reaction only to mid-December.
Read more here.
Arrests continue in protest of Jeju naval base
[Nuclear Resister editors’ note: This is the latest of many ongoing acts of resistance to the construction of a naval base on Jeju Island, Korea.]
On November 28, in response to the news that the Jeju Naval Base project budget for 2013 – 200,900,000,000 Won – was passed completely without any cuts by the National Assembly and the majority holding Saenuri Party, Jeju citizens, villagers and activists rose up in anger with direct action. Three people were arrested.
Read more here.
Nine arrested protesting drones at Beale Air Force Base
On October 30, nine military veterans and peace activists were arrested in a drone protest at Beale Air Force Base in Marysville, California. The group was charged with trespass after blocking two different gates of the base. The front gate was closed for four hours.
Read more here.
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