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Nun amongst dozens arrested at anti nuclear protest

Sister Mary Dennis Lentch, a Catholic nun, has been arrested multiple times at the Oak Ridge facility. In her statement, she said, “I believe the continuing weapons production at the Y12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is in direct violation of the treaty obligations of the United States and consequently, is a violation of Article 6 of the US Constitution.”

Y-12 protest nets dozens of arrests » Knoxville News Sentinel, OAK RIDGE , 5 July 2010, – Some three dozen peace activists and a counter-protester were arrested this morning at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant during a commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the initial “Plowshares” anti-nuclear weapons protest that took place Sept. 9, 1980………..It took officers who were out in force a while to arrest some of the protesters, one of whom was on crutches and presented a dilemma on how to be handcuffed.

In the original Plowshares protest in 1980 Daniel and Philip Berrigan and six others entered a General Electric missile facility at King of Prussia, Pa., and reportedly damaged a warhead nose cone and placed blood on documents at the plant.

Since then, there have been dozens of other similar or symbolic actions to protests the U.S. production and maintenance of nuclear weapons.

Some of the original or long-time members of the disarmament movement have been in East Tennessee over the weekend, and this morning assembled at Y-12 – where the enriched uranium was produced for the A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima and where new parts for old nuclear warheads are still manufactured and refurbished……Sister Mary Dennis Lentch was among those planning to take action at Y-12.

Lentsch, a Catholic nun, has been arrested multiple times at the Oak Ridge facility. In her statement, she said, “I believe the continuing weapons production at the Y12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is in direct violation of the treaty obligations of the United States and consequently, is a violation of Article 6 of the US Constitution.”

Y-12 protest nets dozens of arrests » Knoxville News Sentinel

July 6, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons