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FROM THE EDITORS: WE'RE BACK!
Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa
With this issue, the Nuclear Resister returns to print. The last 15 months have been a sort of unintended sabbatical from the publication we have edited since 1980. We are glad to resume the work of chronicling anti-nuclear and anti-war civil disobedience, and encouraging support for the women and men imprisoned as a result of those actions.
Since the last issue, April 24, 2003 (#132-133), the generous support of readers brought this publication out of debt, while our time became devoted - Felice as cooordinator, and Jack as one of two associate coordinators - to the increasing work of the U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu.
It would take a triple-thick issue to report all of the conseqences of the 7,500 anti-war arrests reported in the April, 2003 double issue, in addition to stories surrounding the thousands of new arrests that have occured since then. While that information is in our files and being compiled, this revival issue gives priority to the stories of the nuclear resisters and war resisters now behind bars. The next issue published, in September, will include a full round-up of arrests resulting from opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as well as reports from the front lines of anti-nuclear civil disobedience that are not included in this issue.
Despite our best efforts, we know we have missed hearing about and pursuing the details of many arrests and jailings that would otherwise be chronicled here and in the next issue. Readers, please continue sending any information - clippings, press releases, first-hand accounts posted to the internet - that you can provide about anti-nuclear and anti-war arrests over the past 15 months, as it will still be greatly appreciated. Likewise, any reports of trials, sentencing statements, charges dropped, sentences served, etc. Please send information by post to the Nuclear Resister, POB 43383, Tucson, AZ 85733, or text, attachments or internet links via email to nukeresister@igc.org.
Thanks!
