Monthly Archive for April, 2013

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May 7 trial date is on for Transform Now Plowshares

Posted on April 4, 2013

Megan, Michael and Greg

by Ralph Hutchison

Today was the day we met our new judge; Amul Thapar came down from Covington, KY to take over the Transform Now Plowshares case from the docket of retiring judge Thomas Phillips. Thapar was appointed ten days ago and last week called a status conference. So Greg got on a bus in Duluth and Megan and Michael caught the megabus in Washington, DC. Bill Quigley and Sara Godchaux drove up from Louisiana and Anabel and David Dwyer came down from Michigan.

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Steve Kelly, SJ, in California jail, to be taken into federal custody due to outstanding warrant

Posted on April 4, 2013

[May 1 update:  Steve Kelly is now being held at FDC SeaTac.  You can write him a note of support:  Stephen Kelly, #00816-111, FDC SeaTac, P.O. Box 13900, Seattle, WA 98198.]

Fr. Steve Kelly, SJ and Larry Purcell were jailed over the Easter weekend when they refused to sign for release after being arrested on Good Friday with 4 other nuclear abolition activists at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, California.  Kelly was also informed that he had an outstanding federal warrant. He agreed on April 2 to waive an extradition hearing.

On April 3, the two men appeared in court for a hearing.  The state charges were dropped for all 6 arrestees, and Purcell was released.

Federal marshals have 30 days to take Kelly into custody to begin serving time for parole violation from his Disarm Now Plowshares sentence.  For now he is at the Main Jail South in Santa Clara County.  

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Nuclear Resister issue #169

Posted on April 1, 2013

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E-bulletin March 2013

Posted on April 1, 2013

The Nuclear Resister March, 2013 IN THIS E-BULLETIN:  1)  129 PEOPLE JAILED FOR PROTESTING INDIA’S KALPAKKUM NUCLEAR REACTOR 2)  TWENTY NUCLEAR ABOLITIONISTS ARRESTED BLOCKING ROAD INTO BANGOR SUB BASE 3)  U.S. MILITARY REFUSER JUSTIN COLBY JAILED 9 MONTHS FOR DESERTION support needed 4)  ARRESTS AT HOLY WEEK NUCLEAR WEAPON AND DRONE PROTESTS 5)  MANNING’S STATEMENT […]

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