April 16, 2025 this was emailed: Dear Friends,
It is with heavy hearts that we share that Michael Walli, 76, a
member of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker (DDCW), went home to God this early
morning. He died peacefully in his sleep in his room at DDCW. As we grieve his
death, we give thanks to God for the great gift of Michael's life of
faithfulness to Jesus and his untiring commitment to live and proclaim God's
reign of love justice and peace in resistance to a war-making empire.
Information about funeral arrangements will be forthcoming.
Kathy Boylan, Art Laffin, Colleen McCarthy, Sr. Carol Gilbert,
Paul Magno, All the Families at DDCW
Pax
Christi USA shared this on Facebook: Pax Christi USA is saddened to learn of
the death of longtime peacemaker and nuclear disarmament activist Michael
Walli, who died this morning at his home at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker
community in Washington DC. Michael was a deeply faith-filled resister, a
unique soul who never wavered from his convictions. He is well remembered for
his participation in the 2012 Transform Now plowshares action, when he, Sr.
Megan Rice, and Greg Boertje-Obed entered the Y-12 National Security Complex in
Oak Ridge, TN to “indict the US government” for its nuclear weapons program.
Michael served an extensive sentence in federal prison for that action.
In
2013, Michael was named Pax Christi Metro DC-Baltimore’s peacemaker of the year
— he was unable to attend the award ceremony as he was in jail awaiting
sentencing for the plowshares action. His prepared statement for the event well
expresses Michael’s guiding philosophy: “The success of the work of world peace
and an end to war-making has been assured to all of us by God. This work is
realistic, practical, doable, and worthy of the enthusiastic support of all
people of good will.” We will miss you, Michael!
Toby Blomé <toby4peace@sonic.net>
shared this news on April 15: Report Back: People's Arms Embargo Action, April 9, 2025
-- 12 Arrested in Human Blockade to
Oppose Travis AFB, Fairfield, CA Role in Transporting Weapons to Israel.
Activists don signs of names & ages of some of the 15,000+ Palestinian
children killed in the ongoing genocide.
At 7:30 a.m. on April 9, the heavy traffic flow into
California’s Travis Air Force Base, the largest transport base in the country,
came to a sudden stop. As they have done numerous times, the “People’s
Arms Embargo” blocked the main road into the base. The action this time
commemorated the recently deceased long-time peace advocate and civil rights
activist David Hartsough, one of the co-founders of the Peoples Arms
Embargo. David devoted much of his life inspiring others to use
nonviolent mass civil disobedience/direct action as an effective tool to obtain
meaningful social and political change. He was the catalyst that triggered the
founding of the People's Arms Embargo last November. Prior to David’s last
arrest at Travis in November of 2024, of over 150 in his lifetime, David
declared, “We are putting our bodies between these bombs and the children
of Gaza by blocking workers loading these bombs onto planes headed to Israel.”
On April 15, Jack Gilroy <jgilroy1955@gmail.com>
sent out this report:
The
first short report (link below) discusses the remarkable actions of Binghamton
University students. They organized a 17-car caravan starting at Lockheed
Martin in Owego, NY, by delivering a letter of incrimination to the CEO of
Lockheed Martin and the plant manager. Then, the students drove 12
miles to BAE Systems in Endicott. They set up banners along the sidewalk of
BAE, and students were interviewed by local TV and were told by a battery of
plainclothes security not to step across onto BAE property. They ignored the
warnings, and about twenty students walked past security and gained entrance to
the building. The inside reception was shut. Students left their letters on the
receptionist's counter. (all four letters --Lockheed, BAE, Watson School
of Engineering and the office of the Binghamton University
President were sent the same letters as certified mail.) In addition to
multiple radio and TV interviews, Freshman student Owen Barrett gave a
remarkable speech that exposed the criminality of the arms makers.
The
caravan then drove across the Susquehanna River to Binghamton University, where
they hand-delivered letters to the president's secretary and gained entry to
the dean's office of the Thomas Watson School of Engineering to present a
letter of demands from students to end the school's role as an incubator for
Lockheed Martin, BAE, and other industries that design and make instruments of
death. Students demanded that Binghamton University end their relationship
with death makers and focus on real needs of people.
Their
letters were designed by Ohio attorney Terry Lodge and edited by
students. Veterans for Peace of Binghamton is proud of the willingness of
students to speak truth to power and thank them for their courage at a
time when universities around the US are cooperating with a crazed man 'leader'
who calls for punishment of anyone, especially students, who engage in
Pro-Palestine events. Jack Gilroy, Stu Naismith VFP Ch 90 Binghamton NY
https://www.wbng.com/2025/04/15/protests-held-against-lockheed-martin-bae-systems-binghamton-university/
Donations can be sent
to Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206,
Baltimore, MD 21212. Ph: 410-323-1607; Email: mobuszewski2001 [at]
comcast.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/
"The master class
has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject
class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially their
lives." Eugene Victor Debs
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