The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 face years in prison for exposing nuclear weapons, which are immoral as well as illegal under international law, and 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. A jury on Oct. 24, 2019 found the KBP7 guilty of destruction and depredation of government property in excess of $1,000, trespassing, and conspiracy. The jury was prohibited from hearing their expert witnesses, including Daniel Ellsberg; international law expert Prof. […]
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Beating Swords to Plowshares
*by Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence Inscribed on a wall across from the United Nations in New York City are ancient words of incalculable yearning: “They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.” – Isaiah 2:4 I’ve stood with activists in front of that same wall singing Down by the Riverside, a song promising we’ll lay down our swords and shields, -“and study war no more, no more.” In memorably eloquent words spoken after the onset of COVID-19, the […]
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Turning Swords into Plowshares: Resistance and Action in the New Year
Oh, what a year it’s been! As we move into a new year, nearly three-quarters of a century into the Nuclear Age, it is sobering to know that the threat of nuclear war looms as large as ever thanks to the hubris of the nuclear high priests who refuse to recognize the folly of their reliance on nuclear weapons as the ultimate source of power. The United States and Russia are poised to fall into the abyss of a renewed nuclear arms race that raises a new specter of nuclear holocaust. And the other nuclear-armed nations are following their lead […]
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They came to stop a crime
Instead, seven Catholic peacemakers were convicted and now await sentencing By Jack Cohen-Joppa, The Nuclear Resister “…You are the hope you have arrived to find.” So ended a brief message that Fr. Steve Kelly wrote from jail last month to be read to more than 100 friends and supporters. We had travelled from across the United States for a Festival of Hope on the eve of the trial of the Kings Bay Plowshares in coastal Brunswick, Georgia. While many of us hoped for their acquittal, Steve reminded us that hope in the nuclear age comes first from building community, and hope […]
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Sign Petition to Dismiss Charges against KB Plowshares
Sign Global Petition to Dismiss Charges Against Anti-Nuclear Plowshares Activists Facing 25 Years This is an urgent 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 (KBP7). They face 25 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, […]
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