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Clare Hanrahan is an Asheville, N.C. author, activist, organizer and speaker who has been participating in and reporting on direct action events throughout the Southeast U.S.A. for decades. Hanrahan was raised in Memphis and has lived and worked for peace and justice in Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida. She served a six-month sentence in Alderson Federal Prison in 2001-02 for peaceful protest at Fort Benning, Ga. She is author of Jailed for Justice: A Woman's Guide to Federal Prison Camp, Conscience & Consequence: A Prison Memoir, and her autobiography: The Half Life of a Free Radical: Growing up Irish Catholic in Jim Crow Memphis.
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Monday, May 13, 2013
"Woe Unto the Empire of Blood" -- Transform Now Plowshares Convicted and Jailed Report on trial and Sabotage conviction of Transform Now Plowshares in Knoxville, Tenn. for walking into the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. unarmed and undetected until they reached the "Fort Knox" of bomb-grade uranium. They face 30 years imprisonment for the nonviolent action exposing the inherent insecurity of U.S. Nuclear Weapons.
Monday, May 13, 2013"Woe Unto the Empire of Blood" -- Transform Now Plowshares Convicted and Jailed Report on trial and Sabotage conviction of Transform Now Plowshares in Knoxville, Tenn. for walking into the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. unarmed and undetected until they reached the "Fort Knox" of bomb-grade uranium. They face 30 years imprisonment for the nonviolent action exposing the inherent insecurity of U.S. Nuclear Weapons.
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Friday, April 12, 2013
Oak Ridge: Zero Tolerence for Nuclear Resisters Report on April 6 Action in Oak Ridge, Tenn. against proposed multi-billion dollar Uranium Processing Facility. First Amendment rights restricted, three arrests;Trials upcoming on Plowshares Action.
Friday, April 12, 2013Oak Ridge: Zero Tolerence for Nuclear Resisters Report on April 6 Action in Oak Ridge, Tenn. against proposed multi-billion dollar Uranium Processing Facility. First Amendment rights restricted, three arrests;Trials upcoming on Plowshares Action.
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Escalating the Resistance to Mountain-top Removal Coal Mining Activists allied with Radical Action for Mountain Peoples Survival (R.A.M.P.S. in mountain mobilization shut down West Va. surface coal mine site with bold nonviolent intervention. 20 arrests remain in jail on $25,000 bond each while 30 others forced to walk four hours on mountain road under constant harassment and threat from angry miners as state police kept support vehicles from the site. Miners confront rally in State Park
Friday, August 3, 2012Escalating the Resistance to Mountain-top Removal Coal Mining Activists allied with Radical Action for Mountain Peoples Survival (R.A.M.P.S. in mountain mobilization shut down West Va. surface coal mine site with bold nonviolent intervention. 20 arrests remain in jail on $25,000 bond each while 30 others forced to walk four hours on mountain road under constant harassment and threat from angry miners as state police kept support vehicles from the site. Miners confront rally in State Park
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Friday, June 8, 2012
Occupy Asheville Trial: "Not Guilty!" Citizen Journalist Wins Appeal Occupy Asheville, NC. Buncombe County Superior Court trial jury finds citizen journalist Lisa Landis not guilty in trial on charges of impeding traffic during Occupy Asheville march and rally.
Friday, June 8, 2012Occupy Asheville Trial: "Not Guilty!" Citizen Journalist Wins Appeal Occupy Asheville, NC. Buncombe County Superior Court trial jury finds citizen journalist Lisa Landis not guilty in trial on charges of impeding traffic during Occupy Asheville march and rally.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
High Drama as Occupy Asheville Goes to Court Occupy Asheville's Day in Court. The video replay of Occupy Asheville direct actions last fall taken by police and a citizen journalist were played to the court during the dramatic trials of six occupiers on April 26 in Buncombe county. 22 more trials of Occupy Asheville particpants scheduled in May and June.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012High Drama as Occupy Asheville Goes to Court Occupy Asheville's Day in Court. The video replay of Occupy Asheville direct actions last fall taken by police and a citizen journalist were played to the court during the dramatic trials of six occupiers on April 26 in Buncombe county. 22 more trials of Occupy Asheville particpants scheduled in May and June.
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
Katuah Earth First! Rocks Asheville With No Nukes Action Katuah Earth First! No Nukes Summer action day in Asheville, North Carolina rocks the city with the message: Do Not ship deadly, toxic nuclear waste through this community and Do Not bury it in these ancient mountains.
Sunday, July 17, 2011Katuah Earth First! Rocks Asheville With No Nukes Action Katuah Earth First! No Nukes Summer action day in Asheville, North Carolina rocks the city with the message: Do Not ship deadly, toxic nuclear waste through this community and Do Not bury it in these ancient mountains.
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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Hundreds Commemorate "Gettysburg of Union Movement" with March To Blair Mountain March on Blair Mountain retraces steps of historic labor battle in West Virginia mine wars. Five days and fifty miles through sometimes hostile territory on treacherous roads, overcoming coal industry obstacles to reach the top of the mountain and place a memorial on the historic 1921 battlefield at the "Gettysburg of the Union Movement."
Saturday, June 25, 2011Hundreds Commemorate "Gettysburg of Union Movement" with March To Blair Mountain March on Blair Mountain retraces steps of historic labor battle in West Virginia mine wars. Five days and fifty miles through sometimes hostile territory on treacherous roads, overcoming coal industry obstacles to reach the top of the mountain and place a memorial on the historic 1921 battlefield at the "Gettysburg of the Union Movement."
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Saturday, December 18, 2010
Mississippi 2010: Lynchings and Double Life Sentences Mississippi activists speak out against lynchings and double life sentences at Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference in Birmingham.
Saturday, December 18, 2010Mississippi 2010: Lynchings and Double Life Sentences Mississippi activists speak out against lynchings and double life sentences at Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference in Birmingham.
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Western North Carolina Veterans Join Civil Resistance Action at White House Western North Carolina Veterans brave the snow to stand against war at the White House gates in largest US Veteran-led civil resistance to war.
Friday, December 17, 2010Western North Carolina Veterans Join Civil Resistance Action at White House Western North Carolina Veterans brave the snow to stand against war at the White House gates in largest US Veteran-led civil resistance to war.
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Pushing the Boundaries at Fort Benning: Is This "The End of the Road for the SOA?" Report of the actions and arrests at the gathering at Fort Benning, Georgia,in protest of the U.S. Army School of Americas/WHINSEC.
Sunday, November 28, 2010Pushing the Boundaries at Fort Benning: Is This "The End of the Road for the SOA?" Report of the actions and arrests at the gathering at Fort Benning, Georgia,in protest of the U.S. Army School of Americas/WHINSEC.
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Why Human Rights Matter: Confronting Rendition to Torture in North Carolina Report on conference "Weaving a Net of Accountability: Taking on Extraordinary Rendition at the State and Regional Level," April 8-9, Duke University. NC Stop Torture Now has been campaigning since 2005 at local, state, and federal levels for an end to the practice of extraordinary rendition to torture and for an investigation of Aero Contractors, a CIA linked company headquartered at the Johnston County airport in NC.
Sunday, July 11, 2010Why Human Rights Matter: Confronting Rendition to Torture in North Carolina Report on conference "Weaving a Net of Accountability: Taking on Extraordinary Rendition at the State and Regional Level," April 8-9, Duke University. NC Stop Torture Now has been campaigning since 2005 at local, state, and federal levels for an end to the practice of extraordinary rendition to torture and for an investigation of Aero Contractors, a CIA linked company headquartered at the Johnston County airport in NC.
