From left to right: Gregory Boertje-Obed, Sr. Megan Rice, Michael Walli
Our highest commendations are sent with gratitude and love to VFP member Gregory Boertje-Obed and his courageous and noble colleagues, Sr. Megan Rice, SHCJ and Michael Walli, members of Transform Now Plowshares for their extraordinary actions to expose the on-going criminal activity of the US government at the Y-12 nuclear processing facilities in Oak Ridge, TN. We send also our love and support to their families and friends.
Veterans For Peace, in the strongest possible terms, condemns the convictions and imprisonment of these concerned citizens, (two US Veterans and one 84 year old Roman Catholic nun) and calls for their immediate release.
The intent and success of their nonviolent action, to expose and make known the criminal enterprise of nuclear weapons production and modernization of US nuclear weapons stockpiles by the US government at the Y-12 complex in Oak Ridge, TN and other nuclear facilities, in clear violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has called us as a nation and an organization to self-reflection and examination.
To honor this extraordinary sacrifice of the Transform Now Plowshares activists, and to help insure a future for all of humanity, VFP National calls upon its membership to insist on the implementation of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and move toward the abolition of these unconscionable weapons.
Veterans For Peace