LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE: On September 12, a federal court in Newport News, Virginia, will hear the trial of Steve Baggarly and Bill Frankel-Streit. The men were arrested for trespass in June, as they held an anti-war banner atop a B-52 bomber at an air show...

TEXACO SEVEN: The trial of Albuquerque, New Mexico activists who chained themselves to gas pumps as a "no blood for oil" protest last April, has been postponed until October 2...

R2K: Three people charged with criminal conspiracy and felony assault (one of the three) will face trial October 9. This will be the last and most serious prosecution arising from demonstrations at the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia....

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE: MacGregor Eddy and Liz Rondelle, arrested last May at the west coast space warfare and global satellite surveillance center, will face trial in federal court in Santa Barbara, California on October 18...

McDILL AIR FORCE BASE: A juvenile arrested last May after blocking the entrance to the Florida home of the U.S. Central Command was assigned to "write an essay." Nine adult co-defendants await a pretrial hearing on a charge of "resisting arrest without violence"...

U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY: Four people charged at the gate with trespass while picketing War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's appearance at the cadet's graduation last May have pled not guilty. They have a December 10 pretrial hearing in Colorado Springs...

MILWAUKEE WAR TAX RESISTERS: Six war tax protesters arrested last tax day, April 15, in the Internal Revenue Service's lobby were convicted and sentenced to three days in jail or a $120 fine. One of the defendants - all of whom are Catholic Workers living cooperatively without wages while serving others - asked if community service was an option. The judge replied that if someone did not have enough to pay a $120 fine, they should get a job...

SEN. DeWINE'S OFFICE: Nine of ten people arrested last April at the Senator's Columbus, Ohio, office have had the state trespass charges dismissed. They sat-in, demanding a long-sought meeting over U.S. foreign policy in Colombia, where the remaining defendant has been since shortly after the action. A meeting with the Senator for members of the Ohio Working Group on Latin America was finally scheduled for August 13...

ISRAELI CONSULATE: All charges against sixteen people arrested at a Jewish Voice for Peace sit-in last April in San Francisco have been dismissed...

CHICAGO PEACE VIGILER: John Whitmore, arrested during an anti-corporate globalization/anti-war demonstration last November has had a charge of reckless conduct dismissed. His drumsticks tapped on a bicycle cop's handlebars in the course of the protest, earning an immediate night in jail from the zealous protector of public order. A couple of people arrested earlier for hanging an anti-capitalist banner from a bridge also had their charges dismissed...