Prisoner of Conscience: Endure by Norman Lowry May 28, 2013 “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi In her autobiography FALLING LEAVES, author Adeline Yen Mah gifts us with the beauty of her Chinese heritage. To her, the word “ren” (endure) represents […]
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Greg, Michael, Jack and Megan in Knoxville, May 4, 2013. Photo by Felice Cohen-Joppa
From the Coordinators of the Nuclear Resister – June 2013
Dear friends,
Although it was almost 30 years ago, we remember quite clearly hearing the news that Fr. Carl Kabat and Helen Woodson were sentenced to 18 years in prison for using a sledgehammer, jackhammer and household hammer with two others to disarm a nuclear missile silo in Missouri. It stands as the longest prison sentence for a nuclear disarmament action to date.
In September, the most recent group in the Plowshares tradition to use hammers to beat swords into plowshares – the Transform Now Plowshares – will be sentenced. Sr. Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed, convicted by a jury of sabotage and depredation of government property at Tennessee’s Y-12 nuclear weapons complex, are already in jail and each faces up to 35 years in prison.
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