From Upstate Drone Action Coaliton We assemble here this morning to petition our government to end itsuse of killer MQ9 Reaper Drones piloted from Hancock Air Force Base.Hancock is home to…
Category: Legal Actions
10/17/20 Patrick Challenges Judge, Judge Surprises Patrick
From The Kingsbay Plowshares BRUNSWICK, GA—In a decision likely unexpected by both the defendants and prosecutors, a federal judge today passed down a significantly lower prison sentence to one of the Kings…
10/7/20 Peace Groups Blockade Creech Air Force Base To Protest ‘Illegal and Inhumane Remote Killing’ by US Drones
By Brett Wilkins From AntiWar.com | Original Article A group of 15 peace activists on Saturday wrapped up a week-long nonviolent, socially-distanced protest at a Nevada Air Force base housing a…
8/11/20 Professors’ association revamps efforts to remove UNC-Charlotte head of safety
By Sofia Lesnewski From The Daily Tar Heel | Original Article …
6/20/20 Knee on the Throat of the World
Weaponized drones are the knee on the throat of people of color all over the world. The USAF and other governmental agencies are using drones to “surveil” the American people. For…
6/8/20 Liz McAlister Sentenced to Time Served and Supervised Probation
From Kings Bay Plowshares | Original Article Liz McAlister, the eldest of the King Bay Plowshares 7, was sentenced today via video to time served, three years supervised release and for a…
6/6/20 Witness Against Torture Member Martin Gugino assaulted by Buffalo Police
From Witness Against Torture | Original Article Many of you already know that the 75-year-old white man…
1/22/20 Nonviolent Action at Lockheed Martin
From The Brandywine Peace Community Five arrested attempting to deliver Notice of UN Nuclear Ban Treaty Prohibition Another Martin Luther King Day has passed. A new decade, January 20, 2020. It was…
11/10/19 “It’s better than having everybody blown up”…
By Carol Dudek That’s what Martha Hennessy said when asked if she is sad about the possibility of going to prison. Martha is one of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 who walked…
10/28/19 Convicted Anti-Nuclear Activists Speak Out: “Pentagon Has Brainwashed People”
By Marjorie Cohn From TruthOut | Original Article Activists lie on the ground to protest nuclear war in…
10/23/19 Report Back: Shut Down Creech Fall Action 2019
by Eleanor Levine and Toby Blomé September 29 to October 5, 2019 We successfully interrupted the U.S. war machine in a nonviolent,…
10/22/19 Jury Seated, Opening Statements at Plowshares Trial
By David Quinn-Jacobs From Kings Bay Plowshares 7| Original Article BRUNSWICK, GA – We’re underway. A jury some feel hopeful about and opening defense statements illustrating the humanity of the seven Kings…
10/14/19 No ‘Artwash’ for Bush’s Crimes, Says CodePink in Protest of Exhibit of Former President’s Paintings of Veterans in War He Started
By Eoin Higgins From Common Dreams | Orginial Article Activists from anti-war group CodePink on Sunday protested an exhibit of paintings of veterans by former President George W. Bush at the Kennedy…
10/7/19 Visual Drone Demonstration Outside the UN
By NYC World Can’t Wait On October 7, 2019, NYC World Can’t Wait activists and others joined artist Essam Attia in a visual repudiation of drone wars outside the UN where leaders…
10/3/19 Demonstration Against Sanctions & War on Iran
On Wednesday September 25, a demonstration initiated by World Can’t Wait and CodePink and cosponsored by Peace Action and other organizations was held outside and inside the United Against a Nuclear Iran…