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Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
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R.I.P. Peter De Mott - Presente!![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() News comes through of the sudden death in Ithaca, New York, of friend and anti-war resister Peter De Mott. Peter was injured in a work accident dying in surgery on Thursday night. Peter's death leaves wife Ellen, four daughters and many of us in the anti-war resistance community with heavy hearts. Peter, a Vietnam veteran joined the Catholic Worker movement in Des Moines in 1979. In the 1980's, he was later a core member of Jonah House resistance community www.jonahhouse.org in Baltimore. Peter carried out the second plowshares action at the launch of a Trident submarine when he noticed the keys left in the ignition of a security vehicle. Peter transformed the vehicle into a battering ram to begin the disarmament of this enormous first strike nuclear warfighting machine. And with that a movement was born inspired by the original Plowshares 8 action. |
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