Beating Nuclear Arms Into Plowshares by Eileen Markey, Jacobin, July 17, 2021

Mark Colville knew he would go to prison. When he and six others took wire cutters to the fence at the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia, home to a Trident nuclear submarine, the night of April 4, 2018, they weren’t trying to evade the law. They intended to break it.

It was the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, and his 1967 speech on the “triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism” echoed in their heads. “Somehow these three evils are tied together,” King had intoned.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/07/nuclear-weapons-antinuclear-movement-plowshares-catholic-workers-movement-trident-camden-kings-bay-seven

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