Good Friday - Walking the Way of the Cross to Lockheed Martin

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Good Friday – Walking the Way of the Cross to Lockheed Martin
Posted on March 30, 2013 by Disarm Now Plowshares

Dear Friends,

A group of the faithful carried the cross together, honoring the sacrifice and suffering of Jesus, on Good Friday.

They gathered – Catholic Workers, nuns, priests and lay people – and walked to the Lockheed Martin facility in Sunnyvale, California where day in and day out people go to work building the Trident II D-5 missiles that are deployed on our nation’s ballistic missile submarines.



Each of those Trident missiles (and each submarine carries 24) is fitted with four (and as many as eight) thermonuclear warheads, each of which is many times more destructive than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. These submarines patrol 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on alert, prepared to launch their horrific weapons, threatening humanity with omnicide.

Such a thing is quite simply an abomination before God.

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Some of those present went into the roadway carrying that cross and blocking the entrance to Lockheed Martin in an act of nonviolent resistance to nuclear weapons and war-making. They were arrested by the Sunnyvale Police. This was their sacrifice in the name of Jesus, who sacrificed for us in the name of a loving God who wants us to live together in Peace.

Those arrested for their witness were Steve Kelly, Susan Crane, Larry Purcell, Mary Jane Parrine, Louis Vitale, and Ed Ehmke. Steve was held on a warrant, and Larry didn’t sign the citation. Those released have a court date May 13th. Steve and Larry will be in court Wednesday, April 3rd in the afternoon.

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Peace,
Leonard

[cbayer]

1. Glad to see this. I just love some non-violent civil disobedience.

[Jim__]

2. "Omnicide" - that's a word that needs to "go viral."

Either we have nuclear disarmament or we will blow ourselves off the earth.

[freshwest]

3. Loved all the signs, this is what I remember from the sixties. This is a real pro-life group.