Uranium Storage Facility News Today

Before anybody came to check on what was going on there. while they were waiting for someone, anyone to respond to the alarms they set off, they spray painted anti-war slow sgans on the uranium storage facility. they splashed the storage container human blood they had brought to the protest for that purpose. but they did not try to get away. they just waited to be found. they brought snacks with them. they ate snacks, they prayed, they sang songs. they were just waiting for somebody to notice th...

Quickly responded to those alarms. they were able to stay inside the facility for about an hour before anybody came to check on what was going on there. while they were waiting for someone, anyone to respond to the alarms they set off, they spray painted anti-war slogans on the uranium storage facility. they splashed the storage container human blood they had brought to the protest for that purpose. but they did not try to get away. they just waited to be found. they brought snacks with them. th...

Northwestern universitys football team wants to unionize. the quarterback is testifying today before the national labor relations board. the goal is to get the players in a position to bargain for things like pay and medical coverage after graduation. northwestern argues that the players are students, not employees. were expecting to learn this afternoon whether an 84-year-old catholic nun will spend the rest of her life in prison. sister megan rice and two fellow peace protesters convicted la...

83-year-old nun. her name is sister megan wright. she is being sentenced for her role in a protest in a break-in at a uranium storage facility. sist sister megan rice. it could be a life sentence because of her age. you have got to hear this one. hey guys! sorry were late. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea.

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It was originally built in the 40s in the midst of the second world war. thats where they made the material for the nuclear bomb that the u.s. dropped on hiroshima in 1945. today, y-12 is still there and they call it the ft. knox of uranium. its always been seen as a secure storage facility for our nations enriched uranium nuclear material. but after 9/11, they upgraded y-12 further. they added a whole bunch of new high security features. still, though, in 2012 somebody broke into y-12. it was j...

Material storage facility inside there. and once they were inside, they were there for an hour before anybody came to arrest them. they did not resist. josh harkinson has been doing some great reporting about this at mother jones among other people, but josh wrote about the roots of what specifically happened at y-12, about those roots going back to 1967. apparently the first known use of human blood in an american anti-war protest was in 1967. an anti-vietnam war protest when four men poured so...