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Link for Recording of the Third Anniversary Festival of Hope on Monday, April 5 The recording can be viewed on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx7__Pm4Tss We invite you to celebrate the third anniversary of the King Bay Plowshares disarmament action with a Zoom Festival of Hope on Monday evening. It will be in the form of a…
Read MoreThe third anniversary of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 action is approaching on April 4 which is Easter this year. Mark Colville has also decided to go forward with virtual sentencing on April 9 after numerous delays because of virus concerns. We are planning a Zoom Festival of Hope for Monday, April 5 at 7…
Read MoreCLARE GRADY REPORTS TO ALDERSON FEDERAL PRISON Clare Grady started her prison sentence on Wednesday, February 10. She is one of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 who entered the Trident nuclear submarine base in Georgia almost three years ago on April 4, 2018, to nonviolently and symbolically disarm omnicidal nuclear weapons. Her daughters, Leah and…
Read MoreWhat: A Festival of Hope for Kings Bay Plowshares Activist Clare Grady When: Sunday, February 7 Where: Zoom, YouTube, and Facebook The recording is available at the KBP7 Youtube https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/galleries/video-gallery/ Clare Grady, a storied activist from Ithaca, NY, was arrested in April, 2018 for peacefully protesting against Trident’s nuclear weapons. She is the sixth of…
Read MoreCarmen Trotta’s statement from prison on the TPNW becoming international law We certainly owe a debt of gratitude to those who conceived and advocated for this international obligation. An obligation, one would think for human beings, for human dignity and our actualization, our destiny. For Americans, the timing of the treaty’s adoption into international law…
Read More“I’m Going in there with Hope” – Patrick O’Neill Driving through Ohio, about to begin a 14-month sentence for his part in the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 disarmament action Patrick O’Neill didn’t sound like someone about to enter federal prison within minutes. “I’m going in there with hope. There’s cause for optimism right now.” At…
Read MoreWe have had to change the Zoom link for the virtual Festival of Hope on Sunday at 7 pm (Eastern) for Patrick O’Neill. He is now beginning a prison sentence for the disarmament action at the Kings Bay Trident base in Georgia more than two years ago. He is scheduled to report to the federal…
Read MoreCarmen 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 community members and friends from St. Joseph House Catholic Worker in NYC to the prison in Otisville, NY, about a two hour drive. Before leaving…
Read MoreAfter 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 Hennessy will be reporting to two different Federal Correctional Institutions on December 14 by 2 pm. There is a great risk of contracting the COVID-19…
Read MoreCarmen 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 served 7 weeks pre-trial so should be getting out in less than a year with good time. He may receive an earlier release because of…
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