<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br class="">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Brian Terrel</strong> <span dir="auto" class=""><<a href="mailto:brian@vcnv.org" class="">brian@vcnv.org</a>></span><br class="">Date: Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 8:52 AM<br class="">Subject: Eight Catholic Workers detained at Buechel, Germany<br class="">To: <<a href="mailto:catholicworkerlist@gmail.com" class="">catholicworkerlist@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px"><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Eight members of the Catholic Worker movement detained while resisting US nuclear weapons at Buechel, Germany. Richard Bishop, Bitterroot Valley, Montana; Andrew Lanier, Jr., San Jose, California; Brian Terrell, Maloy, Iowa; Richard Barnard, London, UK; Margriet Bos and Susan van der Hijden, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Dietrich Gerstner and Birke Kleinwächter, Hamburg Germany</span></font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px"><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">10 JULY 2019 </span></font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px"><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">CONTACT: Jürgen Hossbach, GAAA, 0160-90811-593; Marion Küpker, 0172-771-3266; John LaForge, +49-151-7557-6696</span></font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px"><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">ACTIVISTS BRING “CEASE AND DESIST” ORDER TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS BASE</span></font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px"><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">BUECHEL, Germany -- Eleven international peace activists entered the Büchel Air Base southwest of Frankfurt early this morning to deliver a self-named Treaty Enforcement Order declaring that the sharing of US nuclear weapons at the base is a “criminal conspiracy to commit war crimes.”</span></font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px"><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Upon entering the base’s main gate with a printed “cease and desist order,” insisted on seeing the base commander to deliver the order in person.</span></font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px"><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">“We refuse to be complicit in this crime,” said Brian Terrell of Voices for Creative Nonviolence in Chicago, Illinois. “We call for the nuclear bombs to be returned to the US immediately. The Germans want these nuclear weapons out of Germany, and so do we.”</span></font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px"><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">The group included people from Germany, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. All eleven were detained by military and civilian authorities and were released after providing identification. </span></font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px"><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">This is the third year in a row that a delegation of US peace activists has joined Europeans and others in protesting the US nuclear weapons at Büchel. The local group Nonviolent Action for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (GAAA) convenes the International Action Week, demanding permanent ouster of the US nuclear weapons, cancellation of plans to replace today’s B61s with new hydrogen bombs, and Germany’s ratification of the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.</span></font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px"><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">“Delivery of the ‘Cease and Desist Order’ is an act of crime prevention,” said John LaForge, of the US peace group Nukewatch and coordinator of the US delegation. “The authorities think the entry is a matter of trespass. But these nuclear bomb threats violate the UN Charter, the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.” he said, adding, “Interrupting government criminality is a duty of responsible citizenship.”</span></font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px"><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Other activists detained included: Susan Crane, Ralph Hutchison, and Dennis DuVall, all from the United States</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px"><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Susan van der Hijden of Amsterdam, who is just back from the US where she visited the Kansas City, Kansas site of a factory working on parts of the new replacement bomb, known as the B61-12. “The planning and training to use the US H-bombs that goes on at Büchel cannot be legal, because organizing mass destruction has been a criminal act since the Nuremberg Trials after WWII,” van der Hijden said.</span></font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""><img id="m_1779867271448873375f_jxxxn0hw0" class="" apple-inline="yes" src="cid:16bdc4ae8ba6231e9e11"></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""><img id="m_1779867271448873375f_jxxxnozn1" class="" apple-inline="yes" src="cid:16bdc4ae8bac9e8d03d2"></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""><img id="m_1779867271448873375f_jxxxnzk62" class="" apple-inline="yes" src="cid:16bdc4ae8bacd0c0bf63"></span></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""><img id="m_1779867271448873375f_jxxxo5913" class="" apple-inline="yes" src="cid:16bdc4ae8bab8bf26024"></span></font></div></blockquote><br class=""><img id="m_1779867271448873375A651D998-6F82-4433-B0A8-11F5D85D0BD8" class="" apple-inline="yes" src="cid:16bdc4ae8bac2b08ae85"></div><br class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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