Nuclear Hotseat Hosted By Libbe Halevy

The Anti-Nuclear Peace Nun Who Broke into “High Security” US Site to Protest Nuclear Weapons: Sister Megan Rice. She speaks at length about the peaceful 2012 Transform Now Plowshares protest action. She and two other activists broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee which resulted in her being charged with sabotage and sentenced to almost three years in prison. Recorded when she was newly out of prison pending a re-sentencing hearing. All further charges were later dropped. The break in was an antiwar protest referred to as “the biggest security breach in the history of the nation’s atomic complex.” Co-defendant Gregory Boertje-Obed, 60, who along with co-defendant Michael Walli, 68, was sentenced to over five years in prison for their non-violent protest.