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Megan Gillespie Rice (born January 31, 1930 in Manhattan , New York City ) is an American peace activist. Rice is a nun of the Catholic Society of the Holy Child Jesus . She has been involved in the peace movement since the 1980s.
Rice broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex near Oak Ridge , Tennessee , along with peace activists Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli, both Vietnam veterans, as part of a protest in July 2012 . Fissile materials for the manufacture of nuclear weapons are produced here. In February 2014, Rice was sentenced to two years and eleven months in prison for sabotage and damage to state property, and Boertje-Obed and Walli to five years and two months in prison.
Individual evidence
- ^ William J. Broad: The nun who broke into the nuclear sanctum. In: The New York Times , August 10, 2012.
- ↑ Frauke Lüpke-Narberhaus: Bible verses against war: Nun Megan Rice, 83, breaks into US nuclear storage facilities . In: Spiegel Online , May 9, 2013.
- ^ Dan Zak: The prophets of Oak Ridge. In: The Washington Post , April 30, 2013.
- ↑ Protest against nuclear weapons: 84-year-old nun has to be imprisoned for three years after the break-in of the atomic camp. In: Spiegel Online, February 19, 2014.
- ↑ Nuclear-Free Future Award in the RESISTANCE category ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Washington DC, October 28, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Rice, Megan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rice, Megan Gillespie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American peace activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manhattan , New York City New York , United States |