The NUCLEAR-FREE FUTURE AWARDS
Carol Gilbert, Jackie Hudson, Ardeth Plate, Space Plowshares II, USA
Category Resistance – 2003
After George W. Bush called for the destruction of weapons of mass destruction, three Sisters of the Dominican Order gained access to a Minuteman III missile silo in northeastern Colorado on October 6, 2002. They painted a cross on the silo with their blood and hit the building with a hammer. “We just did what the president asked us to do,” they said.
