Disarm and Divest: A Kings Bay Plowshares 7 panelKBP7 901 1
Channel: PeaceActionMaine
Date: 19/05/2020

This is an edit of a recorded ZOOM program hosted by the Kings Bay Plowshares 7.
(Nuclear Disarmament is one of the campaigns that Peace Action Maine focuses on.)

(6 of the 7 activists speak, one remains in prison).
Seven Catholic plowshares activists entered Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary’s, Georgia on April 4th, 2018. It is the largest nuclear submarine base in the world. There are six ballistic missile subs and two guided missile subs based at Kings Bay. 
The activists chose to act on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who devoted his life to addressing what he called the “triple evils of militarism, racism and materialism.”
They used crime scene tape, hammers and hung banners reading: “The ultimate logic of racism is genocide - Dr. Martin Luther King”, “The ultimate logic of Trident is omnicide” and “Nuclear weapons: illegal/immoral.” They also brought an indictment charging the U.S. government for crimes against peace.