THE NUCLEAR RESISTER #113
SEPTEMBER 7, 1998
contents:
INSIDE & OUT
SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES
- Nonviolent direct disarmament actions on three continents
| MINUTEMAN III PLOWSHARES
- Colorado, USA, August 6, 1998 STATEMENT OF THE MINUTEMAN III PLOWSHARES HAMMERS OF COMPASSION (poem) TRIDENT PLOWSHARES 2000 - Scotland, UK, August 1998 JABILUKA PLOUGHSHARES - Australia, August 9, 1998 STATEMENT OF THE JABILUKA PLOUGHSHARES |
| MORE PRISON TIME FOR SOA FOES
- July 23, 1998: Five more School of the Americas protesters sent to prison |
NATO H.Q. - July, 1998 Inspectors enter Brussels headquarters, surprise and interrogate NATO employees. LIVERMORE - July 31, 1998 Catholic Workers attempt inspection at nuclear weapons lab GROTON & ELECTRIC BOAT - August 3 & 6, 1998 International Weapons Inspection of nuclear submarine factory and base. LAKENHEATH - British base turns back citizen inspectors |
HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI ANNIVERSARY ACTIONS
| PENTAGON
- August 6-9, 1998 Faith and Resistance retreat and nonviolent direct actions
in Washington, D.C. area. LOCKHEED MARTIN - August 6, 1998 Disarmament Inspectors attempt search of major war contractor's headquarters near Philadelphia BANGOR - August 9, 1998 Series of blockades at Washington State submarine base mark 21 years of nonviolent resistance to Trident. Y-12 - August 6, 1998 Demonstrators attempt to close Tennessee plant that enriched uranium for Hiroshima bomb. PROJECT ELF - August 1998 "Tromp Trident Peace Walk" and nonviolent actions to demand closure of Navy transmitter for nuclear submarine attacks. |
| NEW ENGLAND ANTI-NUCLEAR
ACTION CAMP - August 21-27, 1998 Blockade at Vermont
Yankee nuclear power plant concludes week of activsts' training for Nuclear
Free New England campaign. Why an Action Camp? HUNDREDS ARRESTED RESISTING URANIUM MINING AT JABILUKA - Australian uranium mine under construction on aboriginal lands is site of long-term action camp and hundreds of arrests. HEALTH DECLINING, PELTIER CALLS FOR C.D. CAMPAIGN - Native American political prisoner needs adequate medical care; invites supporters to engage in civil disobedience to demand his release. |
| RUSSIA
- Nuclear whistleblower journalists still facing persecution ENGLAND - Misc. action notes INDIA - Quarter-million fill Calcutta streets for Hiroshima Day protest. |
