Justice Action Bulletin: Peacemakers on 11-day walk; Poor People’s Campaign
September 4, 2018
National Catholic Reporter
Justice Action Bulletin: Peacemakers on 11-day walk; Poor People’s Campaign
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA — On the morning of Sept. 4, approximately 20 peacemakers began a “Disarm Trident Peace Walk” from Savannah to the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Marys, Georgia. According to a Sept. 3 press release from the walk’s organizers, the 110-mile journey is in support of seven Catholic activists who were arrested for entering the submarine base to protest nuclear weapons April 4; the walk will take 11 days.
The seven activists facing trial, known as the Kings Bay Plowshares group, entered the base with hammers and baby bottles of their own blood. The press release says they “hung banners, hammered on a Trident missile monument, poured blood on the base logo, delivered an indictment, and used crime scene tape at three sites on base” in order to symbolically resist “the nuclear weapons on the Tridents which have the power to end all life on this planet.”