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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 September 27, 2012 by Disarm Now Plowshares
Dear Friends,
One of the greatest challenges we face in the movement to abolish the scourge of nuclear weapons is VISIBILITY. Although you see the words nuclear and weapons combined in the news, it’s usually in the context of hand wringing over Iran or North Korea or other “rogue states” acquiring nuclear weapons. Continue reading →
Chrissy Nesbitt was going through the videos that she discovered of the Festivals of Hope surrounding the 1980 Plowshares Eight and discovered many treasures. Among them was one of Sr. Anne Montgomery speaking to one of the gatherings. In this particular video Anne speaks beautifully about light and darkness; about living into the light. Continue reading →
Posted on September 12, 2012 by Disarm Now Plowshares
Hi Kids,
Welcome to “Where’s Steve???”. As many of you know, Steve Kelly has been on the road, his whereabouts unknown to the general public and agencies of the Federal government. Continue reading →
Posted on September 5, 2012 by Disarm Now Plowshares
Editor’s Note: The audio clips of Anne speaking were taken from various YouTube videos of events related to the 1980 Plowshares Eight. We are thankful to whomever converted so many 8 millimeter films to digital format and organized them into over 100 YouTube videos. Here is one of those from which we extracted audio of Anne: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJbpQTYQzZ4&feature=share&list=PLC9DDEA86AA1A4451
Posted on September 4, 2012 by Disarm Now Plowshares
(a reflection on Anne Montgomery from Ciaron O’Reilly)
I remember Anne most clearly around the beginning of our ANZUS
Plowshares process in 1990. She was such a delight to be in the
company as we set off on this grand adventure – a 10 month process
that saw us disarm a B-52 Bomber on the eve of Gulf War Continue reading →
Posted on September 3, 2012 by Disarm Now Plowshares
(Jail reflection from Transform Now Plowshares activist Greg Boertje-Obed, originally published in issue #167 of the Nuclear Resister newsletter)
~from Blount County
The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. By the Lord has this been done; it is wonderful in our eyes.
– Psalm 118.22-23 Continue reading →
Posted on September 2, 2012 by Disarm Now Plowshares
A Tribute to Sr. Anne Montgomery
By Michele Naar-Obed
It wasn’t that long ago that I wrote that I didn’t believe in heroes. Heroes, like saints, have been sanitized, whitewashed, sensationalized and put up on some unattainable pedestal where the rest of us are not supposed to go. So I guess it’s those kinds of heroes and saints that I can’t believe in. 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
