In The Media

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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Anti-Nuclear Pacifists Get Federal Prison Terms for Nonviolent Protest by Elise Swain, The Intercept, Nov. 16, 2020

November 17, 2020

Each weekend, while New York City’s East Village packs into sidewalk tables for brunch, activist Carmen Trotta leads a vigil for ending the U.S.-backed war in Yemen in Tompkins Square…

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Dorothy Day’s granddaughter sentenced to prison for Kings Bay nuclear weapons protest by Yonat Shimron, RNS, Nov. 13, 2020

November 14, 2020

(RNS) — Martha Hennessy, a granddaughter of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was sentenced Friday (Nov. 13) to 10 months in prison for breaking into Kings…

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Peace activists receive prison sentences for submarine base protest by Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service, Nov. 12

November 14, 2020

Cleveland — Two of the seven Kings Bay Plowshares peace activists received prison sentences Nov. 12 for entering a Georgia naval base and symbolically damaging weapons systems in 2018. U.S.…

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Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Activists Sentenced for 2018 Anti-Nuclear Protest at Georgia Naval Base, by Brett Wilkins, Commondreams, Oct. 16, 2020

October 27, 2020

A federal court on Thursday sentenced a Catholic priest to nearly three years in prison for trespassing on a Georgia naval base to protest U.S. nuclear weapons policy, but he…

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Another Kings Bay sub base vandal sentenced to federal prison, News4 Jax, Oct. 17, 2020

October 27, 2020

BRUNSWICK, Ga. – A North Carolina man convicted of the April 2018 illegal entry and vandalism of Submarine Base Kings Bay has been sentenced to federal prison. Patrick O’Neill, 63,…

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Priest at peace with sentence for Georgia anti-nuke sentence, by Joshua Sharpe, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Oct. 16. 2020

October 20, 2020

Before his sentencing Thursday, Father Steve Kelly, a Jesuit priest and prolific anti-nuclear weapons activist who has been arrested numerous times, told the court he would refuse to pay any…

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Catholic worker who broke into naval base to protest nuclear weapons sentenced by Yonat Shimron, RNS, Oct. 16, 2020

October 17, 2020

Patrick O’Neill, who together with the Rev. Stephen Kelly, cut a padlock to Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia to protest its stockpile of hundreds of Trident nuclear weapons two…

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Catholic priest is sentenced to time served after 2018 break-in at nuclear naval base by Yonat Shimron, RNS, Oct. 15, 2020

October 16, 2020

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced the Rev. Stephen Kelly to 33 months in jail and three years’ probation, plus restitution fees for trespassing onto the Kings Bay Naval Base…

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Sign the Global Petition

(The petition has been delivered to the Department of Justice before the trial in October 2019 where the seven were convicted of all four counts. They are now being sentenced. You can still sign to show support, and you'll be added to the mailing list.)

This is a request that you join distinguished citizens of the world including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, other Nobel laureates and many others by signing our global petition to dismiss all charges against the Kings Bay Plowshares 7.

They face years in prison for exposing illegal and immoral nuclear weapons that threaten all life on Earth. The seven nonviolently and symbolically disarmed the Trident nuclear submarine base at Kings Bay, GA on April 4, 2018, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (View KBP7 reading their statement here.)