Peace & Nonviolence

Their story should chill every person concerned about dissent in the US. 

Fran Quigley, Common Dreams

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From left, Greg Boertje-Obed, Sister Megan Rice, and Michael Walli. (Photo: Saul Young/News Sentinel)

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | In just ten months, the United States managed to transform an 82 year-old Catholic nun and two pacifists from non-violent anti-nuclear peace protestors accused of misdemeanor trespassing into federal felons convicted of violent crimes of terrorism.  Now in jail awaiting sentencing for their acts at an Oak Ridge, TN nuclear weapons production facility, their story should chill every person concerned about dissent in the US. 

Here is how it happened. 

In the early morning hours of Saturday, July 28, 2012, long-time peace activists Sr. Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, and Michael Walli, 63, cut through the chain link fence surrounding the Oak Ridge Y-12 nuclear weapons production facility and trespassed onto the property.  Y-12, called the Fort Knox of the nuclear weapons industry, stores hundreds of metric tons of highly enriched uranium and works on every single one of the thousands of nuclear weapons maintained by the U.S.

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Exposing the Truth

Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Chante Wolf

• The U.S. government and military complex is unwilling to listen, to listen deeply, to the cries of those whom it has slaughtered, wounded, detained, tormented and ruined.
• Thoughts on the Boston Marathon Bombing 
• Boston and Beyond
• Pressure-Cooker and Cluster Bombs       

Lynn Feinerman, Tikkun Daily

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April 26, 2013 | On April 20, 2013, days after the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon event, President Obama asked: “Why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country, resort to such violence?”

Media reported that on April 22, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the two brothers accused in the bombings, answered Obama’ s question. He stated they bombed the event in reaction to U.S. attacks on Islam.

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Related:

Boston and Beyond, Noam Chomsky, In These Times 

• It's rare for privileged Westerners to see, graphically, what many others experience daily--for example, in a remote village in Yemen.
• When we experience terror at home, we must remember the United States’s use of terror abroad.
• Two Obamas, Two Classes Of Children
• Pressure-Cooker and Cluster Bombs

Pressure-Cooker and Cluster Bombs, RootsAction Team

• Both rip through human flesh causing maximum pain, injury, and death.
• Both are wrong!
• Here Comes AIPAC, Lobbying for War

Guns & Alcohol Don’t Mix

Progress Report,  ThinkProgress

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May 13, 2013 | If there’s one thing Americans don’t need a coupon for, it’s an outing mixing guns and alcohol.  Unfortunately, LivingSocial seems to think otherwise.

A new report out today from CREDO Action and the Gun Truth Project calls out the daily deal and experience company for offering booze and bullet-fueled experiences from coast to coast. The wide variety of deals even sometimes feature AR-15s, the same assault rifle used to kill 20 children and 6 educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Other experiences include AK-47s, semi-automatic pistols, and rifles.

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