Monthly Archive for February, 2025

South Korean Catholic priest arrested for October protest of Jeju Naval Base

Posted on February 27, 2025

[Statement] Condemning the police who responded to peaceful actions of nonviolent civil disobedience with arrest! Jeju is not a U.S. colony! Close the Jeju Naval Base that is turning Jeju into an outpost of the U.S. against China! 

At 1:30 p.m. on February 26, police arrested Fr. Sung Hwan Kim, a peacekeeper in Gangjeong and director of the St. Francis Peace Center, on charges of obstruction of business and obstruction of official business. During the arrest, police followed Fr. Kim for over two hours. As usual, Fr. Kim celebrated the 11:00 a.m. Catholic Mass, had lunch with other visiting priests at an outside restaurant, and then moved to an outside café. The police monitored the entire process, which is a clear violation of human rights. 

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Leonard Peltier is out of prison!!

Posted on February 18, 2025

Photo by Angel White Eyes for NDN Collective

 

A beautiful and historic day –

This morning, February 18, at 8:40 a.m. eastern time, Leonard Peltier walked out of FCI Coleman in Florida and is headed home to the Turtle Mountain reservation in North Dakota!!

He still has restrictions of home confinement, but after almost 50 years, he is no longer in a prison cell.  

After 45 years of the Nuclear Resister reporting on and encouraging support for Leonard Peltier, today, with full and grateful hearts, we join many thousands of people around the world welcoming him out of prison!

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Brian Terrell to Enter a German Prison on February 26 for Anti-Nuclear Weapons Protest

Posted on February 11, 2025

by Brian Terrell

February 11, 2025

While participating in an international peace camp on July 14, 2019 organized by Nukewatch and GAAA, Susan Crane of Redwood City, California and Susan van der Hijden of Amsterdam and I were apprehended by German Military police after cutting a hole in the security fence and entering the airfield at Büchel, Germany, with a banner that read “Atomwaffen sind Illegal- Fliegelhorst Büchel ist ein Tator!” (Nuclear weapons are illegal, Büchel airfield is a crime scene). Despite our assurances to the soldiers guarding the base that our intentions were not intended to violate the law but to call attention to the crime of the United States Air Force 702 Munitions Support Squadron keeping about 20 nuclear B61 bombs there, we were turned over to civilian police, cited and released.

It was only when I returned to a protest at Büchel again two years later in July of 2021 that I was served documents by local police informing me that the previous July, 2020, the court in Cochem had issued a penalty order against me and a fine of 900 euros for trespassing and unlawfully damaging property. Susan and Susan had both been served the same papers earlier and had already filed appeals, so I also filed my own, hoping to argue my case in a German courtroom.

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