From The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Support Team “The Perpetual War Stops Here” Plowshare’ Motions Denied, Trial Set for October 21 Yesterday, 509 days after their arrest, a federal judge denied all the…
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8/12/19 Faith-Based Peace Activists, Facing 25-Year Sentence, Defend Disarmament Action at Nuclear Submarine Base
By Julia Conley From Common Dreams | Original Article “I would argue our communal criminal history has been all about upholding the basic tenets of love and providing for the common good.”…
7/10/19 Activists Walk “Cease and Desist” Order into Nuclear Weapons Base
From Voices for Creative Nonviolence| Original Article BÜCHEL, Germany — Eleven international peace activists…
6/5/19 Kings Bay Plowshares Case Shifts to U.S. District Court for August 7 Hearing
From Kingsbay Plowshares BRUNSWICK, GA – The seven members of the Kings Bay Plowshares received a notice of hearing June 4 answering their request for an oral argument before District Court Judge…
4/18/19 Report Back: Shut Down Creech Spring Action
By Toby Blome Opposing Drone Killing at the “Belly of the Beast”: 6 Activists Arrested Blocking the Gates at “Drone Murder Central” We were a strong, hardworking, and dedicated team,…
4/15/19 The Call to Conscience Committee Takes Aim at Elliott Abrams
By Walker Grooms From NACLA | Original Article In the wake of the appointment of war criminal Elliott Abrams as Trump’s special envoy to Venezuela, a group of concerned activists is protesting…
4/8/19 Kings Bay Plowshares: Peace Activists Face 25 Years for Action at U.S. Nuclear Submarine Base
From Democracy Now | Original Article A group of peace activists have been jailed for over a year before trial for entering the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia last April…
1/24/19 Medea Benjamin Disrupts OAS Meeting with Pompeo Planning Venezuela Coup
“Pompeo and OAS should not be supporting a coup on Venezuela. The US has a long and sordid history of supporting coups in Latin America and they always turned out horrible for…
1/22/19 Guantanamo: More than 6200 Days Since the US Torture Camp Opened
Andy Worthington January 11 rally at the White House to Close Guantanamo. Watch the rally here on the video. Jan 9: Witness Against Torture at the Supreme Court “We Target. We Torture….
10/2/18 Trump Officials Headline Neocon Iran Regime-Change Summit: Pompeo Interupted
By Ben Norton and Aaron Mate From The Real News | Original Article John Bolton and Mike Pompeo headlined the annual United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) summit, where speakers celebrated the…
9-20-18 US Official’s Iran Speech Interrupted: How Did the War With Iraq Turn Out?
By Jake Johnson From Youtube | Original Article After senior State Department official and head of the Trump administration’s so-called “Iran Action Group” Brian Hook delivered a hawkish speech on Wednesday,…
6-18-18 Historians Protest Petraeus Planned Keynote in Philly
This message was sent on behalf of the H-PAD (Historians for Peace) Steering Committee.General Petraeus to Give Keynote Address at SHAFR (Society of Historians of Foreign Relations) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, June 21-23….
4-4-18 Statement from the Kings Bay Plowshares
We come in peace on this sorrowful anniversary of the martyrdom of a great prophet, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Fifty years ago today, April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated…
1-25-18 Activists Demand Closure of Guantanamo Bay Detention Center
By Elaine Pasquini From Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Original Article Author and former national intelligence officer Mark Fallon calls for ending torture and closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center….
12-11-17 15 Arrested Today at Let Yemen Live! Nonviolent Civil Disobedience at the Saudi & U.S. Missions to the United Nations Human Rights Day
By Cat April Watters At 43rd Street and 1st Ave starting around 10:30 am demonstrators showed up at the United Nations to protest the United States’ involvement and supporting Saudi Arabia in…