author : Holly Gwinn Graham
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June 2006
by Holly Gwinn Graham
Since 2002, readers of Works in Progress have followed the case of the unjust imprisonment of three Dominican Sisters: Jackie Hudson, Ardeth Platte, and Carol Gilbert for their non-violent symbolic disarmament of a Minuteman III nuclear missile in Northern Colorado. Following a questionable trial in which planned defenses and witnesses were denied them, they were convicted of damaging and sabotaging a national defense area.
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July 2005
by Holly Gwinn Graham
Plowshares Nuns, Sisters Jackie Hudson and Carol Gilbert, wrongfully convicted in 2002 of sabotage and damages to a nuclear missile silo, are out of federal prisons and on parole! Both have been allowed to remain in Washington and Maryland respectively. Sister Ardeth Platte remains in prison in Danbury CT until December.
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June 2005
by Holly GG
One of the things I do that gets me out of town and into the middle of intelligent action is to sing for the GNAWNP. Don't try to say it. Just understand that it is a group working very hard internationally to keep the US from arming space in the interests of ruling the world.
Like me, you may applaud this, since the US is proving to be terribly bad at ruling its fledgling empire on the planet, let alone the one it wants to rule from space.
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August 2003
by Holly Gwinn Graham
Dominican nun and Plowshares II activist Jackie Hudson spoke at Traditions Fair Trade Cafe on July 14, sponsored by the Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation and the local chapter of The Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
The Plowshares disarmament movement was co-founded by the late Philip Berrigan of Jonah House in Baltimore, taking its name from the second chapter of Isaiah: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares...nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Since 1980, the movement has become . . .
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August 2003
by Holly Gwinn Graham
Just back from Iraq for Global Exchange, Medea Benjamin, co-founder of United for Peace and Justice, addressed United for Peace of Pierce County on July 15. The First Methodist Church was filled for the occasion.
Medea thanked people for their commitment to local communities that are the basis for global community.
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June 2003
by Holly Gwinn Graham
Dominican Sisters Carol Gilbert, O.P., Jackie Hudson, O.P. and Ardeth Platte, O.P., have left Clear Creek County Jail in Georgetown, Colorado on their own recognizance. The Plowshares activists have completed nearly 7 months of incarceration for their symbolic act of blood-pouring and ballpeen hammering at Minuteman III nuclear missile silo N8 in Colorado on October 6, 2002.
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