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Nuclear silo peace sign8/18/2023 ![]() Religious groups have played a major role in many antinuclear weapons protests over the years. The June 12, 1982, march and rally for peace and disarmament drew nearly 1 million protesters to New York City’s Central Park in one of the nation’s largest political demonstrations in history. Peace activists in the United States and around the world have engaged in nuclear weapons protests since the 1940s and '50s. Boertje-Obed of Duluth, Minn., wrote in a letter from the Ocilla, Ga., jail where he and his co-conspirators have been held since May, Religion & Politics reports. ![]() “We believe Christians have a duty of public witness against nuclear weapons,” Mr. The three reportedly invited the guards to break bread with them and offered the guards a Bible, candles, and flowers. The three activists managed to spend more than two hours inside the restricted area before guards found them singing and hanging banners. "The protesters put themselves at a high risk of losing their life in performing this act," a National Nuclear Security Administration spokesman has said. The Monitor's View How truth bombs for Russians may end the war Once inside, the protesters splattered human blood on the wall of a $548 million storage bunker containing much of the nation’s bomb-grade uranium, spray painted Biblical slogans of peace, and defaced the exterior of the complex with a hammer. The nun and her two accomplices broke into the facility grounds by cutting through three fences with bolt cutters and sneaking past dogs and armed guards and a sign warning that trespassers risk becoming subject to deadly force. "To remain in prison for the rest of my life would be the greatest gift you could give me." "Please have no leniency with me," Sister Rice told the judge in her closing statement. ![]() Three weeks ago, Judge Thapar ordered the three to pay $52,953 in fines but had to postpone sentencing due to a snowstorm. The three have been awaiting sentencing since being convicted of sabotaging the plant and damaging federal property last year. Fellow protesters Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli each received sentences of 62 months in prison, less than the federal guidelines of six-to-nine years. Megan Rice, an octogenarian nun and seasoned peace activist, was sentenced to 35 months in prison after breaking into the grounds of a nuclear weapons complex once considered the "Fort Knox" of weapons-grade uranium.įederal District Judge Amul Thapar sentenced the Catholic nun to 35 months in prison Tuesday for sabotage at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., on July 28, 2012. ![]() I thought white was the raceless race – just plain, normal, the one against which all others were measured.”She points to an “inexplicable tension” many white people admit to when considering race, a feeling of “something’s not right.”Addressing that feeling can often be the first order of business in the reparations process. Irving, “I didn’t think I had a race, so I never thought to look within myself for answers. Who knows when there will be sustainable balance? But that’s going to take years and years.”When she first started to probe her own feelings about race, wrote Ms. Most often, they are not financial at all, but an acknowledgment of, atonement for, and education about the cascade of damage sent rolling down the centuries by slavery.As Monitor reporter Ali Martin reports in today’s Daily, California’s Reparations Task Force sent the legislature its recommendations yesterday, but that’s just the beginning the state has to figure out what it can actually do. “When will this be finished?” is a frequent question reparations advocates field from white people. “There is no endpoint,” answers Debby Irving, who wrote the book “Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race.” The undergirding of reparations “isn’t linear. They are not a big-fix payoff with an endpoint. In reporting and editing on the Monitor’s ongoing reparations project, I’ve been reminded repeatedly by sources that reparations are a process – institutional as well as personal. ![]()
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