In The Media

This Quarantined Holy Week I’m Thinking of a Brother Jesuit in Jail by Billy Critchley-Menor, SJ, The Jesuit Post, April 8, 2020

April 17, 2020

It’s because of Holy Week that we can approach the Coronavirus crisis with the hope we do. It’s because of Holy Week that we approach death the way we do.…

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80-year-old peace activist faces prison for breaching Georgia submarine base by Julia Bergman, The Day, Feb. 8, 2020

February 10, 2020

Eighty-year-old Liz McAlister doesn’t regret her actions nearly two years ago, which landed her in jail. McAlister was one of seven Catholic peace activists, known as the Kings Bay Plowshares…

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Martha Hennessy shares glimpses of her grandmother Dorothy Day’s life by Jeff Kurowski,The Compass, January 30, 2020

February 5, 2020

Martha Hennessy’s first memory of her grandmother, Dorothy Day, goes back to when she was 3 years old at the family home in Vermont. Day was visiting from New York…

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The ‘Plowshares 7’: Catholics against nuclear weapons by Alexis Buisson, La Croix International, Feb. 5, 2020

February 5, 2020

On 4 April 2018, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., seven US Catholic activists broke into the military base at Kings Bay in the southern…

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How Dorothy Day’s granddaughter feels about facing prison time for peace activism, Jesuitical Podcast in America, Jan. 10, 2020

January 29, 2020

In April of last year, seven Catholic activists broke into the naval submarine base in Kings Bay, Ga., home to several nuclear-armed submarines. Inside, they carried out nonviolent actions to…

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Bishop Thomas Gumbleton Issues Call to Catholics: Let Us End Our Complicity in War, by Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Common Dreams, Jan. 10, 2020

January 11, 2020

All Catholics should refuse to kill and should refuse cooperation with United States wars. Once again, information has surfaced regarding United States governmental efforts to mislead and misinform people about…

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Beating Swords into Plowshares by Patrick O’Neill, Outrider Post, January 9. 2020

January 11, 2020

On April 4, 2018, seven Catholic peace activists broke into a military base to protest nuclear weapons. What motivated them to do it? I am one of seven Catholic pacifists…

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Twin inconvenient truths: nuclear arms and climate change by Charles Geisler, NCR Jan. 10, 2020

January 11, 2020

At a time when major nuclear arms’ treaties are being orphaned and climate disruption is ballooning, many are asking if there are connections between these twin threats to Creation. The…

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ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS, Nagasaki, November 24, 2019

January 2, 2020

Dear Brothers and Sisters, This place makes us deeply aware of the pain and horror that we human beings are capable of inflicting upon one another. The damaged cross and…

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A 70-year-old priest is choosing to spend Christmas in a Georgia jail by Joshua Sharpe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 23,2019

December 23, 2019

The Rev. Steve Kelly, or Inmate #015634 as he is known at the  Glynn County Detention Center, was arrested with other activists after a protest at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay…

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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.)