3 Catholic Workers Arrested after Break-in at AWE Aldermaston
Catholic Worker | 06.09.2010 15:07
Chris Cole, Fr. Martin Newell, Susan Clarkson
In a statement the three said: “We come to the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston to open a new gateway into this tightly guarded factory of death. We come inspired by the message of Jesus to love our enemies, to be peacemakers and to live act nonviolently at all times. This week marks the 30th anniversary of the first act of nuclear disarmament, the ‘Ploughshares 8’ and we act, inspired by that spirit of disarmament. We believe that AWE Aldermaston and its extensive and expensive new development programme needs to be exposed for what it is: a factory for the creation of weapons of mass destruction which have the power to destroy this beautiful world, given to us by God, our loving creator, to care and tend.
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Nice one!
06.09.2010 15:35
I can't understand why someone who would take these kind of actions, and must therefore be quite a decent person, wants to be associated with the evils of religion, but still...
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