CMR Blockade Included Corpse of “Reference Man”

While the funeral processed, others held the space at the free-speech zone.

Encouraged by the PLC prayer-action at the CMR building 7 weeks ago, local nuclear abolitionists gathered again for a demonstration at the CMR building to commemorate the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and the anniversaries of the Aztec, Black, Bulkhead and Effendi nuclear bomb test explosions.

While the dead Reference Man waits, security personnel discuss whether or not to arrest the angelic troublemakers.

Here’s more info on the blockade of the CMR building that lasted a whole 2 minutes! (Scientific experts say it would have lasted twice as long if the funeral folks would have been willing to STAY standing in the way despite the threat of arrest.) When the mourners were notified that the police were “on the way”, they decided to leave the scene, with the blessing of the security personnel who were glad to be rid of the corpse and the UN-permitted demonstration. Mourners then joined the other folks vigilling in a different, more normative demonstration location.

See the news:

http://referenceman.wordpress.com/

or

http://tna.lovarchy.org/release1.pdf

The night before his funeral, Reference Man remembers the call for nuclear abolition which could save humanity.

Guide for Nonviolent Direct Actions

The Pacific Life Community is a group of grass-roots activists dedicated to nonviolent citizen intervention for the abolition of nuclear weapons which threaten all life on earth. The San Francisco Bay Area hosts of PLC 2011 endorse this Guide for Non-violent Acts of Witness from Ground Zero.

Guide for Non-violent Citizen Intervention

·Refuse to engage in verbal abuse or physical violence;

·Pledge not to bring or use any drugs or alcohol other than for medical
purposes;

·Carry no weapons;

·Refuse to retaliate if injured;

·Maintain a spirit of openness, friendliness and respect toward police
officers, court officials, and all others I encounter;

·Share my message of peace with clarity;

·Listen with my self fully present and alert;

·Remain gentle, never self-righteous or hostile;

·Keep in mind that transformation and conversion to peace must
begin with my own life;

·Sustain this discipline throughout all consequences, even under arrest.