http://vandenbergwitness.org Resistance to Missile Testing, Space-based Weapons, and the U.S. War Machine Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:12:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kate Chatfield, representing Dennis Apel, filed a motion (see Attorney Submissions page) for a jury trial and a defense of necessity, employing International Law and Nuremberg Principles. After a magnificent 15 minute motion presentation, Magistrate Rita Coyne-Federman denied both motions. A December 4 trial date was set for 9 am. John ... http://vandenbergwitness.org/2008/10/19/october-16-court-update Fifteen concerned citizens attended the Keep Space for Peace Week Protest on Saturday, October 11 at the main gate. Steve Stormoen, of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and Sanderson Beck, founder of Peace Communications, each spoke to other participants of the cost and dangers of placing weapons in space.  No ... http://vandenbergwitness.org/2008/10/19/keep-space-for-peace-week-2 Due to Dennis Apel's illness, a new motion hearing date for all five defendants has been set for Thursday, October 16 at 2 pm in Santa Barbara Federal Court- 1415 State St. Santa Barbara, 93101 Dennis Apel, Jeff Dietrich, Fr. Steve Kelly, S.J., Fr. Louie Vitale, O.F.M., and Mike Wisniewski were ... http://vandenbergwitness.org/2008/09/19/new-motion-hearing-date October 4-12 is Keep Space For Peace Week - International Days of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space: No Weapons in Space! Stop U.S. First-Strike Deployments in Poland and Czech Republic! Convert the Military Industrial Complex! Fund Human Needs. Join us for a vigil and protest on Saturday, October 11 from ... http://vandenbergwitness.org/2008/08/26/keep-space-for-peace-week MacGregor Eddy was arrested at 5am, August 13, at the front gate of Vandenberg Space Command. She was a participant in a protest against the Minuteman III ICBM test launch that took place earlier that morning. The planned peaceful protest was part of the Nuclear ... http://vandenbergwitness.org/2008/08/16/one-arrest-at-missile-launch-protest Dennis Apel and Fr. Steve Kelly, S.J. were arrested outside the main gate on August 9, commemorating the 63 anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki. At our annual Hiroshima/Nagasaki day commemoration vigil, Dennis and Fr. Steve were arrested for violation of their "Ban and Bar" letter that they received for ... http://vandenbergwitness.org/2008/08/11/2-arrests-on-nagasaki-day-vigil Weather permitting, there is a scheduled launch of a Minuteman III ICBM at Vandenberg AFB on Wednesday, August 13, early morning. Their will be a vigil outside the main gate from 5 - 7 am, with a press conference at 6 am. Please join us. For more info please call ... http://vandenbergwitness.org/2008/08/05/icbm-launch-scheduled-for-august-13 Larry Purcell and Ed Ehmke appeared in Santa Barbara Federal Court for sentencing on Thursday, July 17, for their March 2 witness. After reviewing a pre-sentencing report, Magistrate Rita Coyne-Federman handed both defendants a one day sentence with credit for time served. Both Larry and Ed walked out of ... http://vandenbergwitness.org/2008/07/21/time-served Diocese of San Jose Human Concerns Memo Recognizes Vandenberg Resisters http://vandenbergwitness.org/2008/06/12/diocese-of-san-jose-letter 06/11/2008 - See new PDF posts under ATTORNEY SUBMISSIONS page regarding: Iraqi deaths, U.S. Military PTSD, Air Force sorties in the GWOT & Cheney/Bush et al lied and exaggerated intelligence leading up to the Iraq invasion. These items will be used by the defense in Dennis, Jeff, Mike, Fr. Steve, ... http://vandenbergwitness.org/2008/06/11/new-posts