Monthly Archive for February, 2016

Two Voices for Creative Nonviolence activists arrested for entering drone base with loaf of bread

Posted on February 25, 2016

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Camp Douglas, WI — On February 23, two peace activists with Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Brian Terrell and Kathy Kelly, were arrested when they attempted to deliver a loaf of bread and a letter to drone operators at Volk Field, an Air National Guard Base in Wisconsin which trains pilots to operate Shadow Drones over other countries. Voices activists have lived alongside ordinary people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Gaza. People who can’t flee from drone surveillance and attacks have good reason to fear people from the U.S., but instead they have broken bread with Kelly and Terrell and have welcomed opportunities for deepened mutual understanding. Kelly and Terrell carried the loaf of bread to signify the worth of relying on words rather than weapons.

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Blockade by anti-nuclear Greenpeace activists in France, 13 arrests

Posted on February 12, 2016
photo by Nicolas Chauveau, Greenpeace

photo by Nicolas Chauveau, Greenpeace

On the morning of February 12, Greenpeace activists stopped a truck near Caen, France which carried the head of the vessel of the EPR nuclear reactor under construction at Flamanville (Manche).

Thirteen activists were arrested and held in custody for a few hours. They were charged with obstructing traffic.

The convoy left the Areva plant in Chalon-sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire) on Monday morning, headed towards Normandy. Greenpeace members had arrived at around 7:30 a.m. in the parking lot where the truck was parked in the town of Evrecy, 20 km southwest of Caen.

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~ from the Jamesville Correctional Facility, by Mary Anne Grady Flores

Posted on February 11, 2016

February 11, 2016

Greetings, Dear Friends —

Joy swept through our cell block, Jamesville County Jail, Pod 4, Thursday, January 28.

That evening some of the fifty-nine women in our Pod rushed up and knocked on my cell door. They reported the six o’clock news had shown twelve drone resisters handcuffed, sitting on a roadside curb, waiting to be taken into custody.

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~ from USP Coleman, by Leonard Peltier, on the 40th anniversary of his imprisonment

Posted on February 6, 2016

February 6, 2016

Greetings friends, supporters and all Native Peoples.

What can I say that I have not said before? I guess I can start by saying see you later to all of those who have passed in the last year. We Natives don’t like to mention their names. We believe that if we speak their names it disrupts their journey. They may loose their way and their spirits wander forever. If too many call out to them, they will try to come back. But their spirits know we are thinking about them, so all I will say is safe journey and I hope to see you soon.

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Nuclear Resister E-bulletin January 2016

Posted on February 1, 2016

January 2016 IN THIS E-BULLETIN GRANDMA DRONE PROTESTER JAILED FOR 6 MONTHS KOREAN NAVAL BASE RESISTER REFUSES TO PAY FINE, IS JAILED TWELVE ARRESTED AT JERRY BERRIGAN MEMORIAL DRONE BLOCKADE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ACTION AT LOCKHEED MARTIN RESULTS IN 9 ARRESTS THIRTEEN ACTIVISTS ARRESTED ON U.S. CAPITOL STEPS BEFORE STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH […]

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