From: "Jonah House" (disarmnow@erols.com)
Sunday, October 6, 2002

THE SACRED EARTH AND SPACE PLOWSHARES II has been born!

At 7:30 this morning (Sunday, October 6, 2002), Carol Gilbert, Ardeth Platte, and Jackie Hudson cut through a gate and entered a missile silo site N-8 near Greeley CO.

They walked a bit further and cut through a second gate and entered the silo area.

Upon arriving inside the silo, they used their hammers to hammer on the tracks (on which the lid of the silo is pulled to the side to allow the missile to be released); they also hammered on the silo itself.

They used their blood to make the sign of the cross on the tracks and on the silo.

They then began defencing - cutting through the fence in 3 places.

Upon completing the action, they began their liturgy. They were able to complete the liturgy and sing many songs and hymns before they saw air force personnel in the distance. By 8:30 they were ringed with humvees and machine guns pointed at them by military personnel.

They were placed under arrest; at some time in the process they were questioned by the FBI; they gave those important persons only their names (but maybe their addresses) and that was all. Never being very fast, it was 5:00 p.m. before they were ready to be shipped to the local jail -- Women's Detention Center in Greeley CO. They were indicted by the state of CO (to date) for felony destruction (of, it seems, a farmer's fence); further charges are anticipated when they appear in court in the a.m.

The only other piece of information that we got from Carol was that the 3 were dressed in white mop up suits - as used by crews doing toxic clean up. On the back of their suits they had stenciled : CWIT (Citizen Weapons Inspection Team); on the front they had stenciled: Disarmament Specialists.

All three are well, in good health, grateful, ready, interested in all their friends.

Love to you. Liz et al at Jonah House

--- UPDATE Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:32:55 -0400

Dear Friends,

We just heard from Carol in the Clear Creek County Jail in Colorado. She said that they had been moved, taken to fed. court, and charged with Destruction of Government Property. They have a preliminary hearing on Oct. 24 at 10:30 in the Federal Court in Denver.

Their address, as of now, is

Sr. Ardeth Platte, OP, Sr. Carol Gilbert, OP, Sr. Jackie Hudson, OP
P.O. Box 518
Georgetown, CO 80444

We continue to pray for peace along with you.

Jonah House Community