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Once again, a federal court has plainly identified itself as another hall of the Pentagon by turning a blind eye to the criminal and murderous enterprise from which the Pentagon has repeatedly refused to desist for the past 73 years. According to international and constitutional law, both of which are binding and superceding law in…
Read MoreDANIEL ELLSBERG WARNS OF ‘NO SURVIVORS’ IF U.S. GOES TO WAR WITH ‘CRIMINALLY INSANE’ NUCLEAR WEAPONS
May 3, 2018 Newsweek DANIEL ELLSBERG WARNS OF ‘NO SURVIVORS’ IF U.S. GOES TO WAR WITH ‘CRIMINALLY INSANE’ NUCLEAR WEAPONS Nina Burleigh “Daniel Ellsberg is best known as the defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers and exposed Defense Department lies about American involvement in the Vietnam War. But in 1971, when he took those…
Read MoreReflection from the Camden County Detention Facility, by Fr. Steve Kelly, S.J., Kings Bay Plowshares
“Do you swear/affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you [God]?”, Dennis Apel was asked as he took the stand in Federal court for his witness at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Dennis looked to the judge and said, “If I am allowed to, I will, believe me,…
Read MoreApril 30,2018 Pax Christi USA Daniel Berrigan’s Ethic of Resurrection and the Kings Bay Plowshares By Art Laffin “The No to state uttered by the unarmed Christ is vindicated in His resurrection. Of this, the world can never be a witness…This is our glory. From Peter and Paul to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Romero.…
Read MoreWhen they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. 25 You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: “‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples…
Read MoreAbsurd Convictions, Modest Hopes is the title of one of the more than fifty books by my late brother-in-law Daniel Berrigan (RIP and Presente!). It might be fair to say that we came to Kings Bay Submarine Base animated by the absurd conviction that we could make some impact on slowing, if not ending, the mad…
Read MoreApril 11,2018 New Haven Register New Haven activist among 7 protesters detained in Georgia for trespassing at nuclear sub base “ST. MARY’S, GA. — A New Haven peace activist is among a group of seven protesters being detained in jail after they were arrested at a nuclear submarine base in Georgia. Mark Colville, 55, of…
Read MoreApril 11, 2018 The Tablet Catholic Peace Activists Arrested at Submarine Base By Dennis Sadowski WASHINGTON (CNS) – Seven Catholic peace activists, including the granddaughter of Dorothy Day, were denied bail during a court appearance April 6, a day after they were detained after entering Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia to protest nuclear…
Read MoreWe say, ‘the ultimate logic of Trident is omnicide’, and yet, the explosive power of this weapon is only part of what we want to make visible. We see that nuclear weapons kill every day by their mere existence. Their production requires mining, refining, testing, and dumping of radioactive material, which poisons sacred Earth and…
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