Hundreds Continue Nuns’ Antiwar Protest
Hundreds of demonstrators fanned out across parts of Colorado and Nebraska to carry on the work of nuns sentenced to prison for their antiwar protest at a missile silo.
Religious and political activists targeted the Minuteman III site, known as M-11, about 140 miles northeast of Denver, to pray, sing, dance, beat drums and hang an eviction notice. Officials said protesters also gathered at three missile sites in southwestern Nebraska.
Jackie Hudson, 68, Ardeth Platte, 66, and Carol Gilbert, 55, were convicted in April of obstructing the national defense and damaging government property for cutting a fence and walking onto a Minuteman III silo site, swinging hammers and using their blood to paint a cross on the structure. A federal judge sentenced them Friday.
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