The wonderful Nuclear Resister records the following arrests since our last issue, including at three Good Friday actions.
- 18 March: Two nuclear abolition activists, Rush Rehm and Jim Haber, arrested at Nevada nuclear test site, during the Pacific Life Community annual gathering.
- 27 March: George Killingsworth, Karen Pettit and Sylver Pondolfino arrested at Creech drone warfare base during the Nevada Desert Experience’s annual Sacred Peace Walk from Las Vegas to the Nevada nuclear test site.
- 29 March: Beth Blattenberger and Jeanne Firth arrested ‘crossing the line’ at the Nevada nuclear test site at the end of the Sacred Peace Walk.
- 29 March: Steve Baggarly, Kathy Boylan, Bill Frankel-Streit and Ollie arrested blockading the Pentagon in Washington DC in a Good Friday witness, after a prayer service remembering the victims in Gaza and the evil of nuclear weapons.
- 29 March: 25 people arrested at Lockheed Martin in Pennsylvania. Lockheed Martin’s F-16 jet has been used in all of Israel’s assaults on Gaza.
- 15 April: 10 activists arrested at Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant, which is expanding. Part of the 12 – 15 April Midwest Catholic Worker Faith and Resistance Retreat.
- 24 April: Six blockaders arrested at the Holloman drone warfare training base in New Mexico: Toby Blomé, Ray Cage, Virginia Hauflaire, John Reese, Natasha Robinson, and Denise Sellers. Part of a week of action outside Holloman organised by the Shut Down Drone Warfare coalition.
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