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9 Activists Arrested at Wisconsin Military Base

HeadlineAug 12, 2009

In Wisconsin, nine peace activists were arrested this week at the US military base Mount McCoy. The activists had completed a three-day walk to protest the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and the US nuclear stockpile on the sixty-fourth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The activists are expected to stand trial on federal trespass charges.

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