Malachy Kilbride
Malachy Kilbride is an activist presently serving as the president of the board of directors of The Washington Peace Center, washingtonpeacecenter.net, in Washington DC and has served on the national coordinating committee of Declaration of Peace.
As an activist he has organized and participated in the DC Anti-War Network (DAWN), National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, Declaration of Peace, Torture Abolition Survivor Support Coalition International (TASSC), Witness Against Torture, and the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee of Metropolitan Washington DC. For the last several years he has organized and participated in acts of nonviolent civil resistance opposing torture and war.
On January 11, 2007 he was one of 90 people arrested by US Marshals for a nonviolent vigil, organized by Witness Against Torture, inside a US Federal Courthouse calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp and for the release or fair trial of the detainees.
In March 2007 he was one of 7 people, known as the Hart 7, arrested for an act of nonviolent civil resistance in the Hart US Senate Office Building at the time the US Senate voted for more Iraq war-funding. The Hart 7 defended themselves as Pro Se defendants at trial in July 2007 and were found not guilty by their jury. Most recently he participated in another act of nonviolent civil resistance opposing the Iraq War.
On September 20 he was one of 34 people arrested in the US Capitol Building participating in a die-in. They were on trial in Washington DC from January 16 to 18 and were found not guilty of disorderly conduct and guilty of unlawful assembly. On January 11, 2008 he was arrested with 80 others inside and outside The United States Supreme Court calling for a closure of the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp. This nonviolent demonstration was a part of the Witness Against Torture call to shut down Guantanamo. He and the other activists were on trial the last week in May and were found guilty.
As an activist he has organized and participated in the DC Anti-War Network (DAWN), National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, Declaration of Peace, Torture Abolition Survivor Support Coalition International (TASSC), Witness Against Torture, and the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee of Metropolitan Washington DC. For the last several years he has organized and participated in acts of nonviolent civil resistance opposing torture and war.
On January 11, 2007 he was one of 90 people arrested by US Marshals for a nonviolent vigil, organized by Witness Against Torture, inside a US Federal Courthouse calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp and for the release or fair trial of the detainees.
In March 2007 he was one of 7 people, known as the Hart 7, arrested for an act of nonviolent civil resistance in the Hart US Senate Office Building at the time the US Senate voted for more Iraq war-funding. The Hart 7 defended themselves as Pro Se defendants at trial in July 2007 and were found not guilty by their jury. Most recently he participated in another act of nonviolent civil resistance opposing the Iraq War.
On September 20 he was one of 34 people arrested in the US Capitol Building participating in a die-in. They were on trial in Washington DC from January 16 to 18 and were found not guilty of disorderly conduct and guilty of unlawful assembly. On January 11, 2008 he was arrested with 80 others inside and outside The United States Supreme Court calling for a closure of the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp. This nonviolent demonstration was a part of the Witness Against Torture call to shut down Guantanamo. He and the other activists were on trial the last week in May and were found guilty.
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Articles by Malachy Kilbride
December 14, 2008
Next month in January the American people will joyfully celebrate the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama and the end to the criminal Bush Administration. Americans will celebrate the belief in our freedom, our vote, and the conclusion of eight years of an unaccountable regime that broug...
December 11, 2008
Next month in January the American people will joyfully celebrate the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama and the end to the criminal Bush Administration. Americans will celebrate the belief in our freedom, our vote, and the conclusion of eight years of an unaccountable regime that broug...
June 05, 2008
Last week, as prisoners continued to languish in the infamous and illegally-run US concentration camp of Guantanamo, I was fortunate to join 34 fellow criminals in Washington DC at the District of Columbia Superior Court as our case, for an act of peaceful civil resistance, was heard by a judge and ...