UPF Update

May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› orepa

A streamlined fact sheet on the current status of the UPF and issues pending. Please feel free to circulate. UPF update May 2013 web

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Day Three: Transform Now Plowshares

May 10, 2013 3 Comments ›› orepa

White roses, Bibles, bolt cutters and quotations from Martin Luther King, Jr. are the tools of sabotage—at least that’s how the prosecutors and jury in East Tennessee saw it when it came time to pass judgement on Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed in the Transform Now Plowshares case. The prosecutor asked for and …

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Day Two: Transform Now Plowshares Trial

May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› orepa

It was a day full of testimony, cross examination, and more testimony—the first full day of the Transform Now Plowshares defendants began in Knoxville, Tennessee, at 8:00am as supporters gathered with the defendants in downtown Knoxville to process to the federal courthouse. By 8:15 they were in the courtyard of the federal courthouse building and …

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Day 1: Transform Now Plowshares Trial

May 6, 2013 3 Comments ›› orepa

For those trying to follow jury selection in the Transform Now Plowshares trial, it was not an ideal situation. The public and media were isolated in an adjacent courtroom with a widescreen TV; the video remained steady—half the screen was filled with carpet, and the rest with an upward gazing view of the podium in …

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Speak! Reflections on the eve of the Transform Now Plowshares Trial

May 2, 2013 2 Comments ›› orepa

The hidden heart of the Transform Now Plowshares story is one most of the media misses—the colossal failure of security systems at Y12 is too good a story to pass up. That story is likely to continue to challenge the real story for attention as the trial of Greg Boertje-Obed, Megan Rice and Michael Walli …

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