By Eileen Fleming, opednews.com, Aug. 18, 2011
I was eyewitness to that day when priests and nuns, atheists, anarchists and a clown were among the 23 arrested by the State and 13 by the Federal Government for nonviolently resisting Nuclear Weapons at the Y-12 Complex in Tennessee.
Federal charges were for trespassing-and I was tempted to join those who crossed under the wire fence as MEDIA when I saw the “photographer’ who had been very busy the preceding few hours snapping photos of our crowd of over 200 nuclear resisters who had come together two days prior for a weekend long celebration of 30 years of The Nuke Resister and Nukewatch.
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[Tennessee]–Come September, The Y-12 thirteen nuclear resisters will be sentenced for their July 5th 2010 nonviolent civil disobedience protest against USA MADE Nuclear Weapons.
Federal charges were for trespassing-and I was tempted to join those who crossed under the wire fence as MEDIA when I saw the “photographer’ who had been very busy the preceding few hours snapping photos of our crowd of over 200 nuclear resisters who had come together two days prior for a weekend long celebration of 30 years of The Nuke Resister and Nukewatch.
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