03/19/2014, Kevin Alexander Gray
“After a peaceful protest against nuclear weapons showed up shoddy security at a $19 billion nuclear bomb factory site, writes Kevin Alexander Gray, Uncle Sam got mad – against the protestors, now jailed for up to five years. Will Peace Prize winner Obama set them free?”
02/18/2014, WBIR Staff, USA Today, and The Associated Press, WBIR
“U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar in Knoxville, Tenn., sentenced Rice to 35 months in prison for her role in the July 28, 2012, break-in and protest. The judge sentenced Walli and Boertje-Obed both to five years and two months in prison.”
http://www.wbir.com/story/news/local/downtown-ut/2014/02/18/sentencing-for-y-12-protesters/5573305/
01/28/2014, Frank Munger
“With snow coming down and federal officials closing the courthouse early, Judge Amul Thapar, prosecutors and attorneys agreed Tuesday to delay the sentencing of three protesters who broke into the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant.”
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2014/jan/28/scores-brave-bitter-cold-to-get-seat-for-y-12/
01/28/2014, John Huotari
“The three protesters convicted on federal charges after sneaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex and splashing human blood and spray-painting slogans on a uranium storage building in July 2012 will be sentenced in U.S. District Court in Knoxville on Tuesday morning.”
http://oakridgetoday.com/2014/01/28/y-12-protesters-sentenced-tuesday-morning/
01/27/2014, Ralph Hutchison, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
“On Sunday, Jan. 26, Megan called local supporters to report that a phone interview that had been arranged with BBC-London had suddenly been denied.”
http://oakridgetoday.com/2014/01/27/guest-column-u-s-marshals-place-cone-silence-sr-megan-rice/
01/27/2014, Karen McVeigh
“There are laws that supercede other laws and the non-proliferation treaty is one,” she said. “The production of nuclear weapons and the tens of trillions of dollars spent on the industry since 1945, when people are struggling, that’s the crime.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/octogenarian-nun-sentence-nuclear-protest
01/16/2014, Josh Harkinson
“Our very humanity depends on lives given, not taken. But blood also reminds us of the horrific spilling of blood by nuclear weapons.”
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/01/megan-rice-nun-human-blood-nuclear-facility-plowshares
01/15/2014, Josh Harkinson
Sister Megan Rice and two other activists revealed gaping security flaws at a nuclear facility. “They feel that nuclear weapons are the single greatest threat to God’s creation that exists in the world today.”
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/nun-megan-rice-sentencing-y-12-nuclear-weapons-security
12/16/2013, Lisa De Bode
83-year-old Sister Megan Rice continues her anti-nuclear activism in jail, pleads for a Catholic Church ‘of the streets’
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/15/no-room-for-radicalnuninpopefrancischurch.html
09/13/2013, AP
A judge has delayed a sentencing hearing for a nun and two other protesters for breaking into a nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee.
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Judge-delays-sentencing-for-Tenn-nuke-protesters-4812029.php
