Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on Covert Action, February 15, 2021 On April 4, 2018—a date symbolically chosen because it is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination—Clare Grady and six other activists broke into the Kings Bay Submarine base in St. Mary’s, Georgia, the largest nuclear submarine base in the world. They carried hammers and baby bottles filled[…]
Read more
By Brian Terrell, published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, April 17, 2020 “But what of the price of peace?” asked Jesuit priest and war resister Daniel Berrigan, writing from federal prison in 1969, doing time for his part in the destruction of draft records.. “I think of the good, decent, peace-loving people I have known by the thousands, and I[…]
Read more
By Ralph Hutchison, 0ublished on World BEYOND War, October 2019 Kangaroo courts seem to be the order of the day. After just 3 days the Plowshares 7, Catholic Worker antiwar activists who entered a the Kings Bay Naval Base where Trident nuclear weapons are stockpiled to highlight the danger of the United States aggressive nuclear weapons policy, were convicted on[…]
Read more
The Plowshares 7 are a group of peace activists have been jailed since April 4, 2018 for civil resistance to the US Nuclear Weapons program. They entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia to protest U.S. nuclear weapons on April 4, 2018, the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination. Armed with hammers, crime scene tape and baby[…]
Read more