NH #601: NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS! Sr. Megan Rice on Y12 Protest Break-In & Susi Snyder on at-home protest w/Don’t Bank on the Bomb
NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS! Sr. Megan Rice on Y12 Protest Break-In & Susi Snyder w/Don’t Bank on the Bomb
This Week’s Special Year-End Interviews:
Sister Megan Rice
- Sr. Megan Rice was a Roman Catholic nun who was arrested more than 40 times for protesting America’s military industrial complex and nuclear weapons-. She’s best known for breaking into Y-12, one of the world’s largest and most highly guarded uranium storage sites.
But on July 28, 2012, this diminutive octogenarian nun and two other antinuclear activists used simple bolt cutters and their beliefs to walk into Y-12 – and not be noticed for more than 30 minutes! Our extremely embarrassed government threw the book at these three activists, charging them with “sabotage” – a felony with a penalty of up to 20 years in prison. She and the others served just over two years before being released.
Sr. Megan passed away on Oct 17, 2021 at the age of 91, and there is no better commemoration of her life and work than her own words, recorded for Nuclear Hotseat on May 25, 2012, just after her release from prison.
Susi Snyder and Don’t Bank on the Bomb
Susi currently is heard on the show speaking on the Don’t Bank on the Bomb program , which she coordinated for eight years.
- Susi Snyder is the Financial Sector Coordinator at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. For more than a decade, Susi coordinated the Don’t Bank on the Bomb project, which was her position when we spoke May 10, 2019. Her information is as relevant now as it was then, and The report on nuclear bomb producing companies that she references is updated every year, and the 2021 report “Perilous Profiteering: The companies building nuclear arsenals and their financial backers,” is available by CLICKING on the title.
