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Martha Hennessy and Carmen Trotta released from prison Martha Hennessy was released yesterday, May 26, from Danbury prison after 5 1/2 months confinement to a halfway house in Manchester, New Hampshire which is about a two hour drive from her home in Vermont. Her husband, Stephen Melanson, picked her up and drove her to the…
Read MoreMartha Hennessy is expecting to be released from Danbury prison on Wednesday, May 26 to a halfway house in New Hampshire. It is not known at this time how long she will be there or when she will be allowed to return to her home in Vermont. Carmen Trotta is now supposed to be released…
Read MoreNeither Carmen nor Martha were released from prison today because of complications as to where they would live. Carmen had thought he could return to St. Joseph’s House Catholic Worker in NYC where he has lived and worked for 40 years. It had been visited by probation officers several times and had been apparently approved.…
Read MoreClare Grady’s Statement, with Jessica Stewart, on the Attacks on Palestine. The horrific killings, home expulsions, and human rights abuses we are witnessing right now in Palestine are the actions of a settler colonial state, Israel, for whom No Palestinian lives Matter. The same rapacious politics of death that has in the past and still…
Read MoreThe United States’ self-described “ironclad” support for the Israeli slaughter going on in Gaza this week is just part of an ongoing joint effort by two nuclear superpowers to inflict untold human suffering on the Palestinian people. When I interviewed Noble Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel years ago his message was simply that the Jewish…
Read MoreMay 2 Update: Carmen and Martha to Receive Early Release, Details on Viewing DePaul Award, May 4 & 5
Carmen Trotta and Martha Hennessy To Get Early Release, DePaul Award May 4 & 5 Viewing Details Martha Hennessy and Carmen Trotta have been told that they will be getting early release to home confinement in two weeks. Martha in Danbury FCI had requested home confinement through the CARES Act which provides for early release…
Read MoreFr. Steve Kelly, S.J., Freed from Prison Today with Time Served After three years and eight days imprisoned in various county jails and federal facilities since the Kings Bay Plowshares action, Fr. Steve Kelly walked out of the federal courthouse in Tacoma, WA today. He appeared before Magistrate Judge David Christel and admitted to the…
Read MoreApril 11, 2021 Ramsey Clark: A Remembrance by Paul Magno Ramsey Clark passed away last week at the age of 93. His legacy, post-government, was as a dissident lawyer and advocate. Among the many causes he supported and assisted was the Plowshares movement. In fact, even before openly supporting the Plowshares Eight after their initial…
Read MoreFr. Steve Kelly to Appear in WA Court Tuesday, April 13, 2021 Supporters Plan to Gather at Courthouse at 10 a.m. As a reminder, Fr. Steve Kelly, SJ, has been in jail and prison since way back at the KBP7’s arrest on April 5, 2018. Now he goes before a federal magistrate in Tacoma on…
Read MoreApril 9, 2021 Mark Colville Sentenced to 21 Months, Informs Court of Its Own Criminality BRUNSWICK, GA—More than three years after he and six other anti-nuclear activists entered Kings Bay Naval Base, home to six Trident nuclear submarines, a federal judge sentenced Mark Colville to 21 months in prison. Over a video conference, Judge Lisa…
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