Monthly Archive for December, 2015

Report of the December 28th Holy Innocents Pentagon Witness

by Art Laffin

On December 28th, 50 people from the Atlantic and Southern Life Communities held a nonviolent witness at the Pentagon to commemorate the feast of the Massacre of the Holy Innocents. The noon-time witness began with a procession in which participants carried banners and signs from Army-Navy Drive to the police designated “protest” area located near the Pentagon south metro entrance. Recently, the Pentagon Police, citing security concerns, moved our vigil site down the sidewalk, away from the metro entrance and in the direction of the south parking lot.

Occupy Beale AFB photo, of Monday arrest

from Occupy Beale Air Force Base

Dozens of Anti-Drone, Climate Activists Try to Deliver Letter to Base Commander

BEALE AFB (Marysville, CA) – Eight peace advocates opposed to U.S. drone killing were arrested about 3:45 p.m. on Monday, December 14 as they walked onto Beale Air Force Base/Wheatland Gate to deliver a letter to the base commander calling for an end to drone warfare, and explaining how the military contributes to climate change. (see letter below)

Robin Wood photo

Four anti-nuclear activists defied the state of emergency ban on public protest in Paris on Wednesday, December 2, climbing up the steel cables beneath the modern Arche de la Defense to hang banners. French environmentalists joined German climbers from the action group Robin Wood in the ascent as the COP 21 climate talks were underway. They first deployed small banners reading “Don’t Nuke the Climate – Stop EPR” (referring to the latest French reactor design). Police were quickly on the scene, including 20 from a specially equipped mountain brigade in town for the event. They pursued the climbers up the cables and prevented a larger banner from unrolling which would have proclaimed “System Change, Not Climate Change!”