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Transform Now Plowshares!
The July 28th Transform Now Plowshares action at the Y-12 facility has created quite a stir in the corporate press. We hope to change the dialogue from one of security of nuclear weapons facilities to one of how nuclear weapons make the world insecure. Click here to check out the Transform Now Plowshares Website.
Posted on August 26, 2011 by Disarm Now Plowshares
Friends,
Just four days after Jackie Hudson died the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action came together for its annual Hiroshima/Nagasaki weekend gathering. Jackie’s spirit was present throughout. Singer/songwriter/peace activist Holly Gwinn Graham was there and was moved to write a song for Jackie. She named it Jackie’s Waltz, and she sang it for us for the first time on a lovely Summer’s eve on the lawn in front of the Ground Zero meeting-house where Jackie lived and worked. Here is a rare opportunity to hear Jackie’s Waltz as Holly first shared it with us.
Posted on August 24, 2011 by Disarm Now Plowshares
Friends,
I have the honor and occasional pleasure of exchanging emails with a couple of uppity nuns from Minnesota who happen to think we need to abolish nuclear weapons and that it is high time that people everywhere rise up and make it happen. They even wrote a letter to the editor, recently published in the LeSueur News Herald, that states the case quite eloquently (I think). In fact, it got me thinking that one really good place to start is for all of us to write letters to the editors of our local newspapers (and do it NOW!). Continue reading →
Posted on August 19, 2011 by Disarm Now Plowshares
Dear Friends,
Yesterday back in Grand Rapids, Michigan Jackie Hudson’s dear Dominican sisters came together to celebrate a Mass of Resurrection at Dominican Chapel/Marywood. The Grand Rapids Press ran an obituary on Jackie mentioning one of her writings several years ago in a Dominican Sisters publication. Jackie was reflecting “on her peace and justice activites” regarding that age old question: “Will my efforts bring about change in my lifetime.”
“Hard to tell; the important thing is that all of us remain faithful.”
Indeed, it is hard to tell. Yet one of the keys, as Jackie so often reminded us and does so even now, is remaining faithful if we are to stay the course and do the hard work in such difficult struggles as the one to abolish nuclear weapons.
Thank you Jackie for your faith, your hope, and your clarity of vision that always kept you centered and a beacon to us all.
Posted on August 15, 2011 by Disarm Now Plowshares
Editor’s Note: Anabel and David Dwyer sent this in honor of Jackie’s life, and it was included as an insert in the memorial bulletin on Saturday, August 13th.
So many years of faithful, courageous, kind, steadfast and joyful work to rid ourselves of hideous, grotesque nuclear weapons. Can we now take up your skillful lead to stop this idiocy?
Who can together affect the urgency for nuclear disarmament that we failed to pull off to save your exemplary life? Continue reading →
Posted on August 13, 2011 by Disarm Now Plowshares
Jackie Hudson will always be remembered for willingly going wherever her conscience led her – even if it meant going to prison. She was a tireless advocate for change, change that would lead to a just and peaceful world. Continue reading →
Posted on August 11, 2011 by Disarm Now Plowshares
Some thoughts about Jackie, By Susan Crane, Dublin Federal Correctional Institution, August 10, 2011
Peter starts to walk on the water, and the strong wind frightens him, and he begins to sink.
The winds of violence, the winds of discouragement, of indifference and contempt for human life are all around us. It’s hard to even breath sometimes, much less keep on walking on unchartered waters.
But Jackie kept on walking, and encouraged us to walk with her. Her strong determined, clear, steadfast voice in the face of the winds of violence kept fear away. A voice of humor, a voice of disarmament, of getting on with things and not getting stuck in the details or confusion, not giving in to the temptation of inaction. Continue reading →
Posted on August 10, 2011 by Disarm Now Plowshares
Jackie died one week ago this morning at 7:47 AM. Many of us have used
this time to contemplate this wonderful woman and the many lives she
touched. Her thoughts and ways remain easily assessable to us for she
was both active and vocal about her desire for peace in our world.
Google her name and the World Wide Web will bring Jackie’s image and
wise words back to us. Continue reading →
This is a wonderful video of Jackie Hudson speaking at Lake Forest Park Chautaqua in June 2005. She covered an incredible amount of territory and gave us much to think about. There is something important in every one of these 42 minutes!
There is no easy way of announcing such news. At 7:37 this morning our
sister and friend let go of a life of grace and beauty and peace
making that has been a guiding light for so many of us. To the end
that light shone ever so brightly. Continue reading →
Steve Kelly is out of the hoosegow!!! He was released on May 24th.
Steve Kelly was arrested by Santa Clara Police in front of the Lockheed Martin missile plant during the recent Good Friday vigil there. He was held to be picked up by Federal Marshals to begin serving time for parole violation from his Disarm Now Plowshares sentence. He was transferred by federal marshals on April 16th to the Alameda County Jail in Oakland (aka the Glenn Dyer Detention Center).Steve then took the scenic route to the Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump, Nevada, and then to SeaTac Federal Detention Center. On May 20th Steve appeared before Judge Benjamin Settle, who gave him 60 days with time served. He served that time at SeaTac and was released on May 24th.
Updates on the whereabouts of other imprisoned anti-nuclear and anti-war resisters can be found at The Nuclear Resister
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