Bill Ofenloch

Dec. 15 Update – Carmen and Martha Enter Prison, Fr. Steve Kelly Being Moved

December 17, 2020

Carmen Trotta and Martha Hennessy, two of the Kings Bay Plowshares disarmament activists, self-reported to federal prisons December 14 to begin their sentences. Carmen was driven by a group of…

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Dec. 11 Update – Carmen and Martha to Report to Prison Dec. 14

December 11, 2020

After a year of waiting since being convicted after trial in October 2019, two of the seven KBP activists begin their sentences on Monday, December 14. Carmen Trotta and Martha…

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Prison Begins for Carmen and Martha Dec. 14

December 8, 2020

Carmen Trotta has been ordered to report to the Otisville federal prison camp near Middletown in NYS to begin serving his 14 month sentence on December 14. He has already…

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Clare Grady at 100 Seconds To Midnight by Susie Day, Counterpunch, Dec. 2, 2020

December 3, 2020

April 4, 2018, fifty years after Martin Luther King’s murder: Seven white, aging Catholic peace activists cut a fence and enter Georgia’s Kings Bay Naval Base, the largest nuclear submarine…

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The Church at the End of the World by Sharla Moody, Yale Daily News, Nov. 25, 2020

November 26, 2020

Mark Colville is relaxed for someone expecting to be sentenced to federal prison in a few weeks. He stands in front of a stove, white hair sticking out from under…

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Free the Plowshares 7! by Maria Margaronis, The Nation, Nov. 25, 2020

November 26, 2020

I first met Martha Hennessy a couple of years ago at a barbecue in Vermont, on one of those summer afternoons where the talk winds on and on as smoke…

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Nuclear weapons are illegal: 50 nations ratify historic UN treaty by Art Laffin, NCR, Nov. 19, 2020

November 23, 2020

Seventy-five years after the U.S. committed the unspeakable crime of using nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, a historic milestone has finally been achieved: Nuclear weapons have…

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All Things Reconsidered, Radio Interview on KMUD with Patrick, Clare and Martha, Nov. 19, 2020

November 21, 2020

One hour interview with Clare Grady, Martha Hennessy and Patrick O’Neill after their sentencing. http://archive.kmudfm.org/archive/mp3/kmud_201119_190004thutalk.mp3

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Martha Hennessy Interview, Hudson Mohawk Magazine, Nov. 19,2020

November 20, 2020

Martha Hennessey is a peace activist and Catholic Worker who is also a granddaughter of Dorothy Day. She was part of the Kings Bay Plowshare 7 that participated in a…

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Kings Bay Activists Pay Heavy Price for Resisting Nuclear Warfare by Jonathan Michaels, Shadowproof, Nov. 17, 2020

November 18, 2020

Patrick O’Neill gripped the hammer tightly in his hands. The police would soon surround him. O’Neill and six other Catholic peace activists had infiltrated the Kings Bay Naval Base in…

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