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The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 released the following statement on Monday: “On Friday, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the landmark Intermediate Range Nuclear Missile Treaty (INF). ‘There is a real and present danger that this action will provoke a renewed nuclear arms race and brings us closer to nuclear war,’ says Martha Hennessy, granddaughter of Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day and co-defendant of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7.”
Read MoreJanuary 21,2019 The Brunswick News Kings Bay Plowshares Defendants Reiterate RFRA Defense By Wes Wolfe Between the seven of them, the Kings Bay Plowshares defendants filed 161 pages of supplemental…
Read MoreJanuary 11, 2019 Jubilee USA Jubilee Kings Bay Plowshares 7 By Martha Hennessy A small group of seven Catholics accessed the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in St. Marys, Georgia…
Read MoreDecember 31, 2018 truthdig Resistance Is the Supreme Act of Faith By Chris Hedges Becket: It is not for me to win you round. I have only to say no…
Read MoreBRUNSWICK, GA – The Kings Bay Plowshares evidentiary hearing regarding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) has concluded after a second full day of testimony November 19. Five of the seven defendants testified at the federal court hearing. The activists are facing three felony charges and one misdemeanor charge with a possible 25-year sentence. They were arrested April 5 at Naval Station Kings Bay on the Florida border after their nonviolent symbolic disarmament action of Trident submarines and the D5 missiles they carry.
Read MoreLEGAL UPDATE November 19, 2018 Since the last update on 9.26.18, there have been two pre-trial hearings in federal court to allow the Kings Bay Plowshares to put on evidence…
Read MoreBrunswick, GA – The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Catholic anti-nuclear weapons activists and around 35 supporters spent nearly 9 1/2 hours in court yesterday in Brunswick, GA. This was the first day of a motions hearing to argue through the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
Read MoreBrunswick, GA The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Catholic anti-nuclear weapons activists and around 35 supporters spent nearly 9 1/2 hours in court yesterday in Brunswick, GA. This was the first day of a motions hearing to argue through the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). They contend that the three felony and one misdemeanor charges the seven face for their trespass into the Kings Bay Trident nuclear submarine base on April 4th are an unfairly excessive burden on their religious practice. They ask that the charges be dismissed or reduced. After 7pm Judge Benjamin Cheesbro adjourned the hearing to a future date.
Read MoreAn evidentiary hearing in the Kings Bay Plowshares Nuclear Disarmament Case has been scheduled for November 7 at 10 a.m. in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia in Brunswick, GA, before the Honorable Benjamin W. Cheesbro, Magistrate. The defendants will argue on the basis of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that the charges against them should be dismissed, or significantly reduced…
Read MoreAttorneys for the seven Kings Bay Plowshares defendants today filed a Religious Freedom Restoration Act Memo in federal court in Brunswick, GA, as their response to the court’s request for supplemental briefings that would justify the defendants’ use of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) in their defense. The RFRA requires the government to…
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