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October 6, 2017 by Nukewatch Leave a Comment

Nukewatch Delegation to International Week – Day 3 – July 16, 2017

All photos by Zara Brown, member of the US delegation, unless otherwise noted.

Leona Morgan of Diné No Nukes and Carol Gilbert, OP at the gates to the Büchel Air Force Base.
On Sunday the 16th, a pair of firsts was accomplished when a group of 50 protesters, accompanied by photographers and reporters, walked through the same gate and toward a “hardened” steel inner gate which was for the first time anyone could remember left inexplicably unlocked. At least 30 of us traipsed through the open steel door, fanned out, and began inspecting the otherwise exclusively military surroundings and their gaudy display of three retired war planes on pedestals.
Come on in! (Photo by Marion Küpker)

Susan Crane and I took up an idea from Sister Carol, and lowered the US flag. It had occupied a position superior to Germany’s, even at this German base. Having had a lot of experience with flags as a former Boy Scout, the task was done in a blink. But when Susan asked me, “Now what do we do with it?” I had to admit, “I don’t have a lighter,” and could only shout to the other “go-in” activists: “US out of Germany!” (There are some 50,000 US military personnel still occupying the country, 28 years after the end of the Cold War and 72 years after the end of World War II.) Our hosts told us later that no one in Germany would dare to take down the US flag for all the accusations of “anti-Americanism” that would result. Peace activists get called enough names as it is. -JL

The Dutch activists, most of them from the Amsterdam Catholic Worker, had gotten exactly what they wanted: to place loaves of “bread not bombs!” — as the old peace slogan goes — around the old “gods of metal.”
Bread not Bombs! (Photo by Marion Küpker)

To see more of Zara Brown’s photos from Day 3 click here.

Filed Under: Direct Action, Nuclear Weapons, Photo Gallery, US Bombs Out of Germany

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