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June 9, 2020

Peace Activist Liz McAlister Sentenced to Time Served For Breaking Into Nuclear Sub Base in Georgia
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Eighty-year-old peace activist and former nun Liz Mc Alister has been
sentenced to time served for breaking into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine
Base on April 4, 2018, to protest U.S. nuclear weapons programs. The
Georgia base is home to at least six nuclear ballistic missile
submarines, each of which carries 20 Trident thermonuclear weapons. Her
six co-defendants in the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 will be sentenced later
this month. During the sentencing hearing Monday, Mc Alister said, "I
don't apologize for it. I think the weapons are completely destructive
of life." In addition to time served, she was sentenced to pay $25 per
month and serve three years of supervised release. Liz Mc Alister
appeared on Democracy Now! last October after serving 17 months locked
up.

Liz Mc Alister: "If the munitions on those Trident submarines are ever
used, that's the end of life on Earth. That's the end of life on Earth.
I have to say no to that. We don't have that right to destroy God's
creation."

Click here to see our full interview with Liz Mc Alister.


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