June 21 arraignment of Fr. Louie Vitale, Cindy Sheehan, Mark Kelso and Bradley Capshaw

June 21 arraignment of Fr. Louie Vitale, Cindy Sheehan, Mark Kelso and Bradley Capshaw 8:30 am at 1415 State St (Bankruptcy court, not county courthouse) Santa Barbara.

Fr. Louie Vitale of Pace e Bene, Cindy Sheehan of Cindy's Soapbox and mother of Casey Sheehan who died in Iraq in April 2004, Mark Kelso of the Nevada Desert Experience and Bradley Capshaw of Lompoc California will all appear before Judge-Magistrate Rita Coyne Federman. Along with 11 others who were arraigned on May 17, the four were arrested at a peaceful protest of the test launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile at 1:30 am on Feb 25, 2012. The test missile is designed to carry a hydrogen bomb. 450 such land based missiles are armed and ready all over the US midwest, and those are armed with real (not dummy ) hydrogen bombs. The test missile with the dummy warhead was launched Feb 25 from Vandenberg Air Force Base landed at the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. Come to Santa Barbara to support the defendants. for details call 831 206 5043 or email macgregoreddy@gmail.com

Front page Santa Barbara News Press

Oct 17 trial for Vandenberg 15 arrested 2/25

11 of the Vandenberg 15 plead not guilty in Federal court in Santa Barbara on May 17. Four will be arraigned on June 21 and have stated their intent to enter a not guilty plea. Trial date will be Wednesday, Oct 17 9 am at 1415 State St. Santa Barbara. Mark your calendar now.

Dan Ellsberg, represented by attorney Catherine Swysen, entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of trespassing at the peaceful protest of an ICBM launch that was held February 25, 2012. Dan was arrested with 14 other peace protesters when a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was launched with a dummy hydrogen bomb from Vandenberg Space Command to the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. Judy Talaugon of Guadalupe California entered a plea of not guilty. Ms. Talaugon is a descendant of the Chumash people. Vandenberg is build on the lands of the Chumash. Who is trespassing? Ms. Talaugon entered a plea of not guilty. Webb Mealy and Nicola Torbett, both of Seminary of the Street in Oakland entered pleas of not guilty. John Amidon, president of chapter 10 of Veterans for Peace journeyed from his home in Albany New York to represent himself and enter a plea of not guilty. Lynn Hamilton, a retired teacher and anthropologist from Salinas California, entered a plea of not guilty. David and Carolee Krieger, who live in Santa Barbara but are from Hawai'i, both pleaded not guilty. The state of Hawai'i is used for tracking the ICBM launches that arc over the Pacific Ocean to the Ronald Reagan Test Site Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. Toby Blome, Cynthia Papemaster and Leslie Angeline all of CodePink entered pleas of not guilty. Four defendants will be arraigned at 8:30 am on June 21 at 1415 State St Santa Barbara. The four are Fr. Louie Vitale of the Pacific Life Community and a Franciscan priest, Cindy Sheehan, a Gold Star mother who lost her son Casey in 2004 in Iraq, Mark Kelso of the Nevada Desert Experience, and Bradley Capshaw of Lompoc California. Be in court to show support.

Cancelled! ICBM Minuteman III Launch set for May 16

CANCELLED Minuteman III test launch that was set for May 16 No new date has been set. The peace vigil set for May 15 is also cancelled. below is the news story from the Lompoc paper

Another technical problem has delayed a Minuteman 3 missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, marking the third postponement for the test program since early March. The test launch, once planned for May 16, has been delayed indefinitely; a new launch date hasn’t been set, according to officials with Louisiana-based Air Force Global Strike Command. “The test launch is delayed to replace a component of the test-unique instrumentation wafer on the test missile,” said Michele Tasista, a Global Strike Command spokeswoman. The problem was blamed on a command receiver decoder that is part of the missile's flight-termination safety system. That system helps ensure ground safety crews can send commands to destroy the missile if it veers from its flight path, to protect people and property. This is the same component that forced officials to delay the test from April 10, Global Strike Command officials confirmed this week. “Though this particular test-unique component is not new for the Minuteman test program, it has gone through recent modification,” Tasista said. Engineers are analyzing data and performing computer simulations to determine the cause of the problem. “Once that is determined, they will work with the safety community to determine corrective actions that will fix the component so we can resume test launches,” Tasista said. A Minuteman test planned for March 1 was delayed for a different reason, which has since been resolved. That glitch was blamed on another test-specific piece of equipment that engineers said had “a potential for loss of signal continuity in one of the redundant tracking systems.” Engineers weren’t certain a problem existed but recommended replacement of the component. The potential problem arose as engineers analyzed data from the successful Minuteman 3 missile test from the base Feb. 25. Global Strike Command officials had hoped to launch five Minuteman 3 tests in 2012. However, with the recent delays that schedule is in doubt. “The ability to conduct additional test launches in 2012 will depend on the correction of the current test-unique instrumentation issue, as well as availability of launch windows/dates for the Minuteman 3 at Vandenberg AFB,” Tasista added.

. Read more: http://www.lompocrecord.com/news/local/military/vandenberg/minuteman-test-delayed-again/article_966179f6-9b2d-11e1-84fc-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz1ua05peHi

Judy Talaugon and others to be arraigned May 17

On May 17 at 8:30 am at 1415 State St Santa Barbara: David Krieger, Judy Talaugon, Cynthia Papermaster, Nicola Torbett, Webb Mealy, Carolee Krieger, Leslie Angeline, Lynn Hamilton, Bradley Capshaw and Cindy Sheehan will be arraigned in federal court in Santa Barbara for their arrest at the Feb 25. That night there was a 2 am test launch of an ICBM hydrogen bomb delivery system (with a dummy warhead )from Vandenberg Space Command to the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. Fr Louie Vitale and Mark Kelso will be arraigned on June 21.