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April 6th, 2018 
Awake Goy The 60-mile walk began March 24 in Las Vegas and ended March 30 at the Nevada National Security Site, formerly known as the Nevada Test Site, with the goal of drawing attention to the dangers of nuclear weapons, drones and nuclear waste. One stop on the walk was the Creech drone base in Indian Springs, where Darcy Ike and Robert Majors were arrested for blocking the road into the base.
Ike and 19 others — John Amidon, Vera Anderson, Sheri Bauer, Toby Blomé, Kelsey Chalmers, Don Cunning, Susan Dillon, Pat Hornak, James Seamus Knight, Sady Lindberg, Margaret McChesney, Jason Nellis, Barbara Nelson, Julia Occhiogrosso, Marcus Page, Franciscan Br. Mark Schroeder, Brian Terrell, Shirley Tung and Tami Yaron — were also arrested two days later, on the morning of Good Friday, March 30, at the Nevada National Security Site.
Those who were arrested had crossed onto the site’s property to represent the denial of Western Shoshone rights to gather medicinal plants even though U.S. occupation of the land is in violation of the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. — After a church in Springfield declared its intention to offer sanctuary to an immigrant mother in danger of deportation and to her two children, the city’s mayor accused it of violating building and housing codes “and proper non-taxable use of their property,” Western Massachusetts news site MassLive reported March 26.
Gisella Collazo is a Peruvian immigrant who entered the United States 17 years ago, married a U.S. citizen in 2005 and has U.S. citizen children aged 4 and 10. She received sanctuary with her children in South Congregational Church on March 26, a day before she was scheduled to depart.
Collazo has been attempting to regularize her legal status since 2006 but had received ineffective legal counsel in the past, the director of the sanctuary program said.
While Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not typically conduct enforcement actions in “sensitive” locations such as churches, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno opposes the church’s efforts to offer sanctuary and has said city inspection teams will be notified about the improper use of the church building that will house the family.
Source Article from https://popularresistance.org/justice-action-bulletin-holy-week-protests-include-desert-walk-arrests/
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