[Peace] Fwd: Eight Catholic Workers detained at Buechel, Germany

[C G Estabrook]

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> From: Brian Terrel <brian at vcnv.org <mailto:brian at vcnv.org>>
> Date: Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 8:52 AM
> Subject: Eight Catholic Workers detained at Buechel, Germany
> To: <catholicworkerlist at gmail.com <mailto:catholicworkerlist at gmail.com>>
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>>> 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
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>>> 10 JULY 2019 
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>>> CONTACT: Jürgen Hossbach, GAAA, 0160-90811-593; Marion Küpker, 0172-771-3266; John LaForge, +49-151-7557-6696
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>>> ACTIVISTS BRING “CEASE AND DESIST” ORDER TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS BASE
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>>> 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.”
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>>> 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.
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>>> “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.”
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>>> 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. 
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>>> 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.
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>>> “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.”
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>>> Other activists detained included: Susan Crane, Ralph Hutchison, and Dennis DuVall, all from the United States
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>>> 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.
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