NATO SUMMIT/PEACE PARK:
The federal government declined to prosecute William Thomas following his arrest last April when the park opposite the White House was cleared for the gathering of heads of criminal states...

ALDERMASTON WOMEN TRASH TRIDENT:
Rosie James and Rachel Wenham go on trial January 24, 2000 in Lancaster Crown Court, England, for causing a reported £100,000 damage to HMS Vengeance in the dock at Barrow last February. For details of hospitality and trial and pre- trial events planned, contact Becqke at Coventry Peace House, 311 Stony Syanton Road, Coventry, West Midlands, UK, phone (01203) 663 031...

WHITE HOUSE:
Many of the 26 people arrested at the National Coalition for Peace in Yugoslavia demonstration at the White House on June 3 returned for trial July 21, to hear that charges against everyone who had not already paid a $50 fine were dismissed...

SYRACUSE FEDERAL BUILDING:
Five people arrested in December 1998, for a graffiti protest of renewed bombing of Iraq were convicted last fall in two separate trials. Three men were sentenced to 50 hours community service, while two women tried separately were sentenced to 100 hours community service and ordered to pay $1,200 restitution. The women have appealed...

ANN ARBOR POST OFFICE:
Allegedly illicit leafletter and legitimate war resister James Lupton was convicted of trespass on December 7, nearly a year after his arrest in 1998 as the bombing of Iraq was resumed. He will be sentenced January 20...

HANFORD:
Independent radiation researcher Norm Buske and the Government Accountability Project have reached an agreement with the operators of the eastern Washington nuclear weapons reservation allowing Buske to continue sampling vegetation and water from the adjacent Columbia River shore and flood plain for research into radiation pollution from the reactors and waste storage tanks at Hanford. A trespass charge laid last summer as Buske collected samples will not be prosecuted...

MILWAUKEE IRS OFFICE:
Four people arrested at a peaceful demonstration last April 15 outside the doors of the tax agency in the Reuss Federal Building took different routes in court. Lincoln Rice pleaded out to a sentence of five hours of community service. Ryan O'Rourke has his charge dismissed after prosecutors improperly changed it from disorderly conduct to trespass. At trial, Mary Pichelmann and Don Timmerman's charges were dismissed. In his testimony, Timmerman observed the picture of Dr. Martin Luther King on the judge's wall, noting that Dr. King was also opposed to military spending and the use of violence to get one's way. The judge agreed, and then ruled that the IRS office, although in a private building, is located where the public is invited to come. He found the defendants' conduct to be neither disorderly nor trespassing. The next day, the judge phoned Timmerman, to remind the war tax resister that he was running for Supreme Court in the State of Wisconsin...