December 2017/January 2018 IN THIS E-BULLETIN FIVE ARRESTS AT THE WHITE HOUSE ON GUANTANAMO ANNIVERSARY PENTAGON WITNESS COMMEMORATES MASSACRE OF HOLY INNOCENTS CATHOLIC WORKERS ARRESTED AT DES MOINES DRONE COMMAND CENTER FIFTEEN ACTIVISTS ARRESTED PROTESTING WAR ON YEMEN ARRESTS AT REP. HOYER’S OFFICE PENDING YEMEN WAR LEGISLATION PLEASE SUPPORT IMPRISONED ANTI-NUCLEAR AND ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS […]
Monthly Archive for January, 2018
IT’S TIME WE OCCUPIED CONGRESS
by Joy First
January 15, 2018
As I entered my jail cell at Capitol Police Headquarters in Washington, DC, I sat down on the cold steel bench and looked around thinking – here I am again. My eyes came to the mirror above the toilet and I noticed the word “occupy” scraped into the glass and it brought a smile to my face. I thought someone was here before me, someone who cared about the same things I cared about, someone who thought the way I thought, someone who, like me, was doing what they could to try to make the world a better place.
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Seven activists were arrested on January 11th for refusing to leave Rep. Steny Hoyer’s Washington, D.C. office unless the Congressman (and House Minority Whip) committed to bring a vote on legislation to end the U.S.-Saudi war against Yemen. Under intense bombardment and naval blockade, Yemen is poised to become the new century’s worst case of epidemic and famine, in the worst global famine year in the history of the U.N.
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Witness Against Torture photos by Justin Norman & Matthew Daloisio
Rally and Arrests at the White House to Close Guantanamo
Attorneys Files Major New Guantanamo Lawsuits
Human rights activists, attorneys, ex-military investigators, faith leaders, and torture survivors rallied on January 11 at the White House to mark the 16th year of the operation of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where “war on terror” detainees were first brought in 2002. Five people — Beth Adams, Ken Jones, Manijeh Saba, Helen Schietinger, and Brian Terrell — were arrested at the White House, representing the five men still held at Guantanamo despite being cleared for release by the U.S. government years ago. The five are members of Witness Against Torture, an activist movement resisting Guantanamo and torture.
The five activists were arrested for breaching a police line outside the White House.
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photo by Frank Cordaro
Four Catholic Workers were arrested on December 28 at a protest that connected King Herod’s murder of young children in his quest to kill the infant Jesus with the deaths of innocent people killed by U.S. drone strikes.
Report of December 27-28, 2017 Holy Innocents Faith and Resistance Retreat and Pentagon Witness
by Art Laffin, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House
On December 27-28, over 40 members of the Atlantic and Southern Life communities, and other peacemaking friends, gathered for a retreat at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Church in Washington, D.C., and a nonviolent witness at the Pentagon to commemorate the Massacre of the Holy Innocents – past and present.
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