The days are long for Martha Hennessy as she waits in a Manchester, New Hampshire, halfway house to hear from federal prison authorities about how soon freedom will come.
The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 activists are charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor and face up to 25 years in prison each for trespassing on a U.S. Navy base in Georgia.
"It was simply a religiously motivated, sacramental action," says Martha Hennessy, one of the seven who were arrested and charged for their anti-nuclear protest at a naval base last year.
A federal magistrate judge denied motions from seven longtime Catholic peacemakers to have charges dismissed on religious freedom grounds in connection with their April 2018 protest at an East Coast submarine base.
The latest news on active nonviolence: Activists protest nuclear weapons in Kansas City, Missouri, and D.C.; Chicago pastor spends birthday protesting NRA; Plowshares activists begin home confinement
The latest news on active nonviolence: Chapel Hill church campus offers sanctuary to Honduran mother; Kings Bay Plowshares follow-up tips; Indianapolis clergy back Mexican immigrant.
