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ARCHIVE News

Pitstop Ploughshares 10th Anniversary Gathering at Shannon Airport 3 February 2013
US ships 21-tonne tear gas cargo to Tahrir, Egypt says no 30 November 2011

The debate at Occupy Wall Street: To what end? 4 October 2011

Right-wing backlash against Occupy Wall St. begins Need any more be said? 4 October 2011
Busted on Brooklyn Bridge The Occupation of Wall St. begins to gain international attention.
1 October 2011
The Ins and Outs of Filing for Conscientious Objection Status What happens when members of the Armed Services realize that they no longer believe in the war they are fighting, or in fighting at all? 26 December 2010
Jury clears activists who broke into Brighton arms factory In his summing up, Judge George Bathurst-Norman suggested to the jury that "you may well think that hell on earth would not be an understatement of what the Gazans suffered in that time". 30 June 2010

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Serve "I would support a law banning gays from military service. Because I support outlawing the military. And until that has happened, I support downsizing it by any means necessary, including, in this one particular arena, sacrificing civil rights in the interest of human rights". 10 February 2010

No letup for local war protesters "I would ask one thing of you… go out and make me do it," said Franklin D. Roosevelt to legendary labour organizer A. Philip Randolph.  That's what Abie Flaxhammer intends to do with President Obama. 25 January 2009
Hammered by the Swedes. Using hammers and bolt cutters, peace activists repeatedly broke into weapon plants and damaged weapons in Sweden.  Activists from the Swedish group OFOG/Avrusta admitted damaging twenty high explosive grenade launchers as well as internal parts to a Howitzer 77. 20 October 2008
Anti-war train drivers refuse to move arms freight
Railway managers cancelled the Ministry of Defence service after the crewmen, described as "conscientious objectors" by a supporter, said they opposed Tony Blair's threat to attack Iraq. The anti-war revolt is the first such industrial action by workers for
decades   
9 January 2003

Stopping “death trains” in Italy
Over the course of the last week, a national mobilization against American military trains traveling through Italy has taken place. The week started last Friday, February 21 when a small group of disobedience took to the station of Monselice to stop an American military train transporting war goods from base Ederle in Vicenza to Camp Derby in Pisa.
    24 February 2003 

Fiat Pomigliano shut down against the war
The mass meeting of the workers stated that they wanted: “… to connect the struggle against redundancies and the ever-increasing speed of production to a conscious refusal of a war which will yet again slaughter workers and poor people in Iraq, and will worsen the situation of rights and conditions of life of workers and poor people in our country, since the billions of dollars and euros spent on the war will be taken from our pensions, our health service and every other service and social care”.
14 March 2003
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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