There will be a showing of the film, “The Nuns, the Priests and the Bomb,” at the Cinemapolis movie theater, 120 E Green St, Sunday, February 3, 2:00. The film is a documentary about nuclear disarmament activists who broke into two top-secret nuclear weapons facilities in 2009 and 2012, seeing their non-violent actions as a means to move the world away from the brink of nuclear war.
Since 1980, there have been many “Plowshares actions,” acts of civil resistance by individuals at nuclear weapon sites and military bases in the US, their protests taking the name from the biblical injunction from the Prophet Isaiah, “The shall beat their swords into Plowshares . . . and neither shall they learn war anymore.” (Isaiah 2:4) The film follows the activists’ efforts to justify the legality of their actions under international law and highlights the power of their moral conviction.
While not featured in this film, Ithaca local Clare Grady has participated in a number of Plowshares actions, for which she has been imprisoned. She is presently out on $50,000 bail for having joined with six other anti-war activists on April 4, 2018, at the Kings Bay Trident Submarine Base on the coast of Georgia, entering the facility and pouring her blood on a nuclear bunker storage facility. If found guilty, she and her co-defendants face up to 25 years in prison. Clare will speak after the film on the Kings Bay Plowshare action and her upcoming trial.
This is a fundraiser for the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, and there is an admission charge for the film.
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