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Elizabeth McAlister sentenced for 2018 Plowshares disarmament action
June 8, 2020
from the Nuclear Resister A revered elder of the American anti-war movement was sentenced on Monday, June 8 to time served for her part with six other Catholic peace activists…
First U.S. citizen convicted for protests at nuclear weapons base in Germany
May 30, 2020
from CounterPunch May 26, 2020 by John LaForge, Nukewatch COCHEM, Germany A US Air Force veteran of the US war in Vietnam and two other nuclear weapons protesters were found…
Beating Swords into Plowshares
May 30, 2020
by Kathy Kelly Inscribed on a wall across from the United Nations in New York City are ancient words of incalculable yearning: “They will beat their swords into plowshares and…
Sentencing dates set for Kings Bay Plowshares nuclear abolitionists
May 19, 2020
UPDATE: Elizabeth McAlister had her sentencing on June 8 via video from her daughter’s home in Connecticut. The other six Kings Bay Plowshares defendants filed several continuances for their sentencing…
Muslim philanthropist Dr. Rafil Dhafir released from prison after 17 years
May 15, 2020
by Jack Cohen-Joppa, The Nuclear Resister On the morning of May 15, Dr. Rafil Dhafir was released to home confinement from the Allenwood federal prison in central Pennsylvania. The Iraqi-American…
Peacemaking in the shadow of pandemic
April 26, 2020
By Patrick O’Neill Blank stares. During the course of our four-day federal trial last October, that’s all I saw in the faces of our jurors in U.S. District Court in…
Italian plowshares activist Turi Vaccaro released from Sicilian prison
April 15, 2020
After 21 months behind bars, Turi Vaccaro walked out of Sicily’s Pagliarelli prison on April 15. The 67-year-old pacifist was a fugitive from court for previous acts of nonviolent resistance…
Sentencing dates set for Kings Bay Plowshares 7
April 10, 2020
After a six month wait, U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood has set two May dates for sentencing the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 defendants, who were found guilty on October…
“He’s Got Eight Numbers, Just Like Everybody Else” by Kathy Kelly
April 2, 2020
Trident nuclear disarmament activist Steve Kelly, a Jesuit priest, begins his third year imprisoned in a county jail as he and his companions await sentencing. by Kathy Kelly April 3…
Activists charged, detained after praying for peace inside naval base on Jeju Island, South Korea
March 30, 2020
On March 7, peace activists on Jeju Island cut the fence to enter the naval base that has been opposed by residents of neighboring Gangjeong Village since it was first…
Immediate support action needed for Dr. Rafil Dhafir, Humanitarian Political Prisoner
March 28, 2020
Dr. Rafil Dhafir has been in prison for more than 17 years, is 71 years old and has multiple serious health problems. Please ask the warden at Federal Correctional Institution…
The COVID-19 crisis underscores the need to release Leonard Peltier
March 28, 2020
https://medium.com/…/the-covid-19-crisis-underscores-the-ne… March 26, 2020 by Zeke Johnson, Senior Director of Programs, Amnesty International USA Amnesty International, an independent human rights organization, has long called for clemency and release for Native…

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