A reflection on the trial of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 By Brian Terrell “Whether nuclear weapons are actually illegal under international or domestic law (a doubtful proposition) is not relevant or an appropriate issueContinue reading
Category: Nuclear Disarmament
Trident is the Crime – Kathy Kelly
by Kathy KellyOctober 25, 2019 On October 24, following a three-day trial in Brunswick, GA, seven Catholic Workers who acted to disarm a nuclear submarine base were convicted on three felony counts and one misdemeanor.Continue reading
Taking Next Steps Toward Nuclear Abolition – Kathy Kelly
by Kathy KellyOctober 20, 2019 My friend Marianne Goldscheider, who is 87, suffered a broken hip in July, 2018 and then, in June 2019, it happened again. When she broke her hip the first time,Continue reading
Plowshares’ Motions Denied, Trial Date Set for October 21
“The Perpetual War Stops Here” Dear Friends, thank you for supporting the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. Yesterday, 509 days after their arrest, a federal judge denied all the pre-trial motions by our friends. Today, theContinue reading
Remnants of War – Kathy Kelly
July 12, 2019 Intense fighting and hideous attacks battered Afghans throughout their country last week as negotiators in Qatar weighed the benefits and costs of a peace agreement that might stop the bloodshed. In KabulContinue reading
Activists Walk “Cease and Desist” Order into Nuclear Weapons Base
MEDIA ADVISORY – For Immediate Release July 10 2019 BÜCHEL, Germany — Eleven international peace activists entered the Büchel Air Base southwest of Frankfurt early this morning to deliver what they called a “Treaty EnforcementContinue reading
3rd US Delegation to Join Protests against US Nuclear Weapons Now Used in Germany
JULY 5, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A delegation of 11 peace activists from the United States arrives at a German peace camp Friday July 5 to join protests against the deployment of US nuclearContinue reading
An Honorable Course in Iran: End Sanctions, Resume Dialogue
The greatest outlier in terms of possessing nuclear weapons is the U.S. Kathy Kelly June 25, 2019 Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University of New York in Albany, wroteContinue reading
Hiroshima through Nagasaki Day, fast and vigil for the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
Announcing, to last from Hiroshima Day August 6th through Nagasaki Day August 9th in solidarity with the KINGS BAY PLOWSHARES 7 (http://www.kingsbayplowshares7.org), A FAST FOR PEACE in defense of life and against nuclear weapons. Continue reading
Kings Bay Plowshares, Awaiting Trial, Decry U.S. INF Withdrawal
The statement below was issued by the seven Kings Bay Plowshares activists now awaiting trial for their April 4, 2018 action symbolically disarming the nuclear weapons arsenal based at the Kings Bay Naval Base inContinue reading