Transform Now Plowshares go to Oak Ridge

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:


CONTACT:

Ellen Barfield 410-908-7323;
Erik Johnson 865-983-5234

28 July 2012

Oak Ridge, TN—Early this morning three plowshares activists performed
a disarmament action in response to Government plans to invest $80
billion to sustain and modernize the nuclear weapons complex.

Calling themselves Transform Now Plowshares, Michael R. Walli (63),
Megan Rice (82), and Greg Boertje-Obed (57) entered the Y-12 nuclear
weapons facility before dawn.

They released a faith-based statement saying, “A loving and
compassionate Creator invites us to take the urgent and decisive steps
to transform the U.S. empire, and this facility, into life-giving
alternatives which resolve real problems of poverty and environmental
degradation for all.”







The actors also delivered an indictment citing U.S. Constitutional and



Treaty Law as well as the Nuremberg Principles:







“The ongoing building and maintenance of Oak Ridge Y-12 constitute war



crimes that can and should be investigated and prosecuted by judicial



authorities at all levels. We are required by International Law to



denounce and resist known crimes.”







This action is one of a long tradition of Plowshares disarmament



actions in the US and around the world which challenge war-making and



weapons of mass destruction.







At Y-12 NNSA plans to replace facilities for production and



dismantlement of enriched uranium components with a new consolidated



Uranium Processing Facility (UPF). It is budgeted to cost more than



$6.5 billion.







Leonard Eiger



Puget Sound Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (Coordinator) www.psnukefree.org







Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (Media & Outreach) www.gzcenter.org







Disarm Now Plowshares (Media & Outreach)



http://disarmnowplowshares.wordpress.com







Email: subversivepeacemaking@gmail.com