by Her Excellency Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to the United Kingdom
‘Challenging the most violent force on Earth – the US government and its military’
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER spotlights the case of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 who could each face 25 years in jail for breaking into a US naval submarine base in Georgia
WHEN, on the night of April 4 2018, seven US peace activists crept onto the United States naval submarine base at Kings Bay in Georgia, only one outcome was certain: they would be arrested.
After more than an hour, they were. But for the seven, getting arrested was not so much an inevitability as an intention.
Kings Bay is the largest nuclear submarine base in the world and houses six Ohio-Class Trident submarines, comprising close to 200 missiles, as well as two guided missile submarines.
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