December 2014
IN THIS E-BULLETIN
TEN ARRESTED AT FEAST OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS WITNESS AT PENTAGON
FIVE PROTESTERS ARRESTED FOR PAINTING NUCLEAR ABOLITION MESSAGE ON FENCE OF SCOTLAND’S TRIDENT BASE
KATHY KELLY RECEIVES 3 MONTH SENTENCE FOR DRONE PROTEST
DR. SHAKIR HAMOODI, IN PRISON FOR VIOLATING IRAQ SANCTIONS, RELEASED TO HOUSE ARREST
PLEASE SUPPORT IMPRISONED ANTI-NUCLEAR AND ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS – THE NUCLEAR RESISTER NEEDS YOU!
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Ten arrested at Feast of the Holy Innocents witness at Pentagon
On December 29, ten activists were arrested during a peace vigil at the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense. The Catholic Worker and other faith-based activists were commemorating the Massacre of the Holy Innocents, past and present.
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Five protesters arrested for painting nuclear abolition message on fence of Scotland’s Trident base
Five protesters from the campaign group Trident Ploughshares were arrested on December 17 after painting on the Faslane fence a demand for the abolition of all nuclear weapons and for the UK’s Trident system to be scrapped. The activists – Mary Millington, Barbara Maver, Gillian Lawrence, Janet Fenton and Brian Quail – painted directly onto the weldmesh fence that surrounds the base. They were charged with malicious mischief and released.
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Kathy Kelly receives 3 month sentence for drone protest
On December 10, Human Rights Day, a federal magistrate found Georgia Walker of Kansas City, Missouri and Kathy Kelly of Chicago, Illinois guilty of criminal trespass to a military installation. On June 1, the women attempted to deliver a loaf of bread and a citizens’ indictment of drone warfare to authorities at Whiteman Air Force Base. Judge Matt Whitworth sentenced Kelly to three months in prison and Walker to one year of supervised probation. Kelly will begin her prison sentence on January 23.
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Dr. Shakir Hamoodi, in prison for violating Iraq sanctions, released to house arrest
Dr. Shakir Hamoodi was released from the Federal Prison Camp in Leavenworth, Kansas on December 9, and transferred to a halfway house in Columbia, Missouri. He was later transferred to house arrest until the end of his sentence. Hamoodi had been found guilty of sending money for food, medicines, clothing and shelter to poor family members who were suffering under the brutal sanctions on Iraq from 1991-2003. His final release date is April 7, 2015.
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