TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — About 250 demonstrators are gathered outside the federal courthouse in Tacoma, Wash., for the sentencing of five anti-war activists who cut through fences at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor to protest submarine nuclear weapons.
Seattle broadcaster KOMO reports the demonstrators are carrying signs that say, “Blessed are the Peacemakers.”
The defendants include two Jesuit priests, a nun and two other women. All of them are more than 60 years old.
A U.S. District Court jury convicted them of conspiracy, trespass and destruction of government property in December. They face up to 10 years in prison at Monday’s sentencing.
