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On 29 March, five “Disarm Now Plowshares” peace activists received jail sentences at Tacoma federal courthouse, Washington state, USA. Anne Montgomery, Bill Bichsel, Lynne Greenwald, Steve Kelly and Susan Crane (aged from 60 to 83), were ordered to pay $5,300 each, as well as between six and 15 months in prison, plus a year’s supervised release. The five were arrested inside the US naval base Kitsap-Bangor in Washington state in November 2009. They had cut through fences around the Trident nuclear weapons store, and left a trail of blood. When arrested, the activists were holding a banner saying: “Trident – illegal and immoral”. At the time of writing, some of the five were being moved from their initial prison. Further info: www.tinyurl.com/peacenews412