For the fifth year running, grandmother Ruth McKay, 83, was arrested on December 10, International Human Rights Day, crossing the line at British Aerospace Systems' Information and Electronic Warfare Systems division in Nashua, New Hampshire. This year, she was joined by Mary Kate Small, and for the third time by grandfather Donald Booth, 86.

The three were protesting the company's role in producing components for weapons that are being used against civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine, and the company's role in developing the "Star Wars" missile defense system. They were held overnight on trespassing charges, and face trial March 14 in Nashua District Court.

Beginning in the 1980s to fulfill a community service sentence for arrests at the Seabrook nuclear power plant, McKay continued to vigil each week at the Nashua war plant for ten years. For the last three years, McKay has kept a weekly vigil at the statehouse in Concord, calling for an end to the Iraq sanctions.

For more information, contact Sean Donahue at New Hampshire Peace Action, wrldhealer@yahoo.com.