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"Neural network models are brain-inspired models that are now state-of-the-art in many artificial intelligence applications, such as computer vision." |
These models have helped neuroscientists understand how people can recognize the objects around them in the blink of an eye, Kriegeskorte added. |
"This involves millions of signals emanating from the retina, that sweep through a sequence of layers of neurons, extracting semantic information, for example that we're looking at a street scene with several people and a dog," he said. |
"Current neural network models can perform this kind of task using only computations that biological neurons can perform. Moreover, these neural network models can predict to some extent how a neuron deep in the brain will respond to any image." |
The artificial networks cannot yet replicate human visual abilities, but by modeling the human brain, they are furthering understanding of both cognition and artificial intelligence, according to Kriegeskorte. |
Kings Bay Plowshares: Peace Activists Face 25 Years for Action at U.S. Nuclear Submarine Base | Democracy Now! |
member of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 and co-founder of the Fr. Charlie Mulholland Catholic Worker House in Garner, NC. |
member of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 and a member of the Ithaca, NY, Catholic Worker. |
member of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. He helps run the St. Joseph Catholic Worker House in New York. |
A group of peace activists have been jailed for over a year before trial for entering the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia last April to protest U.S. nuclear weapons. The action took place on April 4, 2018—the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination. Armed with hammers, crime scene tape and baby... |
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. A group of activists have been jailed for over a year before trial for entering the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia last April to protest U.S. nuclear weapons. The action took place April 4th, 2018, the 50th anni... |
One year after this historic action, three of the Plowshares activists remain jailed in Georgia. The other four are out on $50,000 bond with electronic ankle monitors. All seven face up to 25 years in prison. They’ve been charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor. On Thursday, global leaders, activists and scholars... |
The Kings Bay protest builds on a history of similar anti-nuclear Plowshares actions around the world, beginning in 1980 in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. That first Plowshares act was led by the late Father Daniel and Philip Berrigan. Phil’s widow, Liz McAlister, is one of the seven arrested last April. She remains lo... |
I recently sat down with the four Plowshares activists who are out on bond. Martha Hennessy is the granddaughter of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Carmen Trotta helps run the St. Joseph Catholic Worker House here in New York. And Patrick O’Neill is the co-founder of a Catholic Worker House in... |
AMY GOODMAN: Where is Kings Bay? |
PATRICK O’NEILL: It’s in St. Marys, Georgia, right on the Florida-Georgia border. And the sub base was the baby of Jimmy Carter. He’s the one that brought that nuclear system to southeast Georgia. And so, we cut a lock, and we went in. And we we were together for probably about an hour, and then we split into three gro... |
AMY GOODMAN: And why did you choose that site to perform this, to engage in this Plowshares action? |
PATRICK O’NEILL: Well, it seemed absurd that we would have a shrine to nuclear weapons. In North Carolina, where I live, we’re taking down Confederate monuments. But here we had monuments, literally phallic monuments, that were actually replicas of weapons of mass destruction surrounded by flags, including the U.S. fla... |
AMY GOODMAN: And what did you particularly do? You went with? |
AMY GOODMAN: Who is in jail. |
PATRICK O’NEILL: And we went to the monument. And I had gotten some hammers from Shane Claiborne from The Simple Way, that were made from melted-down guns. And I went running up to the monument of the D5 missile, which is the Trident missile, that is the most insidious, deadliest weapon ever made in the history of huma... |
AMY GOODMAN: And then what? |
PATRICK O’NEILL: We threw blood on the insignia of the base and also on the missile replicas and hammered on some of the stuff around there. |
AMY GOODMAN: And why this base in particular? |
PATRICK O’NEILL: Well, oddly enough, even though that base has been there for 30 years—I mean, it was loaded with the nuclear warheads back in the late '80s. There had been a huge action at Cape Canaveral in 1987, when the bombs were being flight tested. And, you know, Dr. Spock—it was 5,000 people went down there to o... |
AMY GOODMAN: Clare Grady, talk about why you made this decision to engage in this. You face years in prison. |
CLARE GRADY: Thanks, Amy. I had been part of a Plowshares action in the ’80s, 1983, with the Griffiss Plowshares, with Liz McAlister and six other friends. |
AMY GOODMAN: And Griffiss was? |
AMY GOODMAN: And that was in Griffiss, as in Rome, New York, upstate. |
CLARE GRADY: Griffiss is in Rome, New York, yes. Griffiss is in Rome, New York. And I lived about an hour and a half from there, in Ithaca, New York, in Cayuga territory. |
AMY GOODMAN: How many years did you serve for that action, if any? |
CLARE GRADY: We were the facing the charge of sabotage, which carried 25 years. But we were acquitted of that charge after a 5-week trial, jury trial. And I got a 2-year sentence in federal prison. And I served my time in Alderson, West Virginia, at the women’s federal prison. |
But now, in my—well, I’m 60 years old now. But at this point, I really see and understand how these weapons are not just omnicidal if they’re launched; they’re deadly now, every day. And so, I see them as the capstone to the systems of violence, from the top down to the police gun in the street that kills and threatens... |
AMY GOODMAN: And so, what exactly did you do, along with Martha? |
CLARE GRADY: So, Martha and I went to the administration building, SWFLANT, and we put up crime scene tape at the front of the door. So this is in the middle of the night. And yet there are people, parked in the parking lot, working inside that building. We didn’t go inside the building, but we chose to put up this cri... |
AMY GOODMAN: And how did you get caught? |
CLARE GRADY: So, nobody was coming in and out of that entrance, so we chose to go over to where Patrick and Mark were disarming, at that shrine, that Patrick just described. And we were there for probably an hour, in plain visibility of the security guards that were driving back and forth. And at that point we realized... |
AMY GOODMAN: And, Clare, why did you do this on the anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination? |
CLARE GRADY: Well, for me, it’s been really important, identified—the triplets that the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King identifies, of racism, extreme materialism and militarism, are the key things that work together, all the time together. Not one by itself, but all together make a deadly, deadly combination. And so, ... |
AMY GOODMAN: Martha Hennessy, you, together with Clare, engaged in this particular action at that site, but, together with the seven activists, participated in this Plowshares action. Again, you’re the granddaughter of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. For people who aren’t familiar with it, exp... |
MARTHA HENNESSY: The Catholic Worker Movement began in 1933, you know, under the duress of the Great Depression. And Dorothy, of course, was a journalist. And Peter Maurin, the other founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, instructed her in the Catholic social teaching. And so, the newspaper was there to be the voice ... |
AMY GOODMAN: And so, your decision to engage in this action? Have you engaged in one before? |
AMY GOODMAN: So this is a major decision you’ve made in your life. |
MARTHA HENNESSY: Yes, with some trepidation regarding the Catholic Worker Movement and the Plowshares Movement and the two trajectories of those movements. |
AMY GOODMAN: What was your trepidation? |
MARTHA HENNESSY: The whole question of nonviolence and secrecy. I mean, Dorothy and Gandhi and King all operated in a different way. They weren’t sneaking onto U.S. military bases. And so my trepidation was what we did have to undergo to make this action possible. And I had to go through a disarmament process of myself... |
AMY GOODMAN: And what stands out most for you about that action, what you remember, as the seven of you went onto this base on the anniversary of King’s assassination with your own blood, with hammers? |
MARTHA HENNESSY:* Well, the utter fear in my heart of walking in the dark to challenge the greatest, most violent force on Earth: my own government and its military. And that was in great contrast to the man who arrested us, who was incredibly kind, incredibly professional, incredibly considerate. And he even began to ... |
AMY GOODMAN: I want to turn to the words of the late Father Dan Berrigan, who helped launch the international anti-nuclear Plowshares movement with his brother, Phil. Phil, of course, was the husband of Liz McAlister, lives as his widow. Dan Berrigan and seven others poured blood and hammered on warheads at a GE nuclea... |
FATHER DANIEL BERRIGAN: We went in with the workers at the changing of the shift and found there was really no security worth talking about, a very easy entrance. In about three minutes, we were looking at doomsday. The weapon was before us. It was an unarmed warhead about to be shipped to Amarillo, Texas, for its payl... |
AMY GOODMAN: That was the late Father Dan Berrigan, talking about the action they took back in the ’80s—this is during the Reagan-Bush years—at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, which really launched the modern-day U.S. Plowshares movement. Carmen, you were a dear friend of Father Dan Berrigan. This also was your first ac... |
AMY GOODMAN: To protest the prison. |
CARMEN TROTTA: Protest the U.S. militarism, to protest the torture going on at Guantánamo at the time. There was a prisoner strike, back in 2005. And so, to walk into the room and see the people—once I had decided to explore it again, to see the people that were there was phenomenally compelling. Also, all of this occu... |
AMY GOODMAN: Carmen Trotta of Kings Bay Plowshares. We’ll be back with him and his co-defendants after break. They face up to 20 years in prison for entering a U.S. nuclear submarine base in Kings Bay, Georgia. This is Democracy Now! Back in 30 seconds. |
AMY GOODMAN: “We Will Rise” by Colleen Kattau. This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, as we continue our conversation with four members of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, who face up to 25 years in prison for breaking into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia last year to protest nuclear weapons. I recently spoke... |
MARTHA HENNESSY: We’re all on curfew. We spent the first two months on house arrest, and we were only allowed to go out with a schedule, dictated by the parole officer, related to five criteria. And now it’s curfew. |
PATRICK O’NEILL: Yeah. I would like to point out that the primary use of these ankle monitors in the United States now is for undocumented people. It’s a very, very oppressive system. The ankle monitors hurt. They’re used to track people. It’s a very sophisticated form of imprisonment. And, in fact, many people are sen... |
AMY GOODMAN: Michelle Alexander, who wrote The New Jim Crow, talks about e-carceration and the dangers of this kind of digital incarceration. |
AMY GOODMAN: But it does mean you can be outside of prison for the moment. Liz McAlister, the widow of Phil Berrigan—Liz McAlister has been in jail for almost a year now. She celebrated her—if you can call it celebrating—her 79th birthday in jail. Steve Kelly turned 70 in jail. And there’s Mark Colville. So, how did yo... |
AMY GOODMAN: And are you communicating with the other prisoners at this time? |
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you, Patrick, about the legal strategy you’re going to use in court, the theory that you’re going to apply, using the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Talk about your case. |
PATRICK O’NEILL: —Muslim. And he won. |
AMY GOODMAN: How does it apply in your case? |
AMY GOODMAN: And it was? |
PATRICK O’NEILL: You know, “They shall beat their swords into plowshares,” like Dan Berrigan said in the previous interview. So, we really did establish a case that our religious beliefs were sincerely held. So then the government ended up having to grant us oral argument on this, in which we brought in Jeannine Hill F... |
MARTHA HENNESSY: Joseph Kopacz from Jackson, Mississippi. |
PATRICK O’NEILL: Jackson, Mississippi. So we were able to call witnesses, which is absolutely unprecedented in the 39 years of Plowshare history, to make our case that these weapons are illegal and immoral. And the hearings were absolutely astounding in the content, because not only were our two expert witnesses able t... |
AMY GOODMAN: And where did that hearing go? |
PATRICK O’NEILL: Well, it went over two days in November, and we are actually still waiting for the government’s response. And one of our lawyers here in New York, Vern Walker—he’s in Westchester County—he met with us, day before yesterday, and he said, “The holy spirit has hijacked your case.” But he really thinks tha... |
AMY GOODMAN: And how does this, using the Religious Restoration—And how does this, using the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, relate to what’s often used, Martha Hennessy, and that is the necessity defense? And explain what that is. |
MARTHA HENNESSY: Well, the necessity defense has been something that the Plowshares Movement has attempted to use all of these decades, and has essentially been stripped of that, that if you are walking past a burning house and there’s a child inside, you have the right to break down the door and rescue the child. And ... |
AMY GOODMAN: How much time do you face in jail? |
MARTHA HENNESSY: Oh, they say that the counts against us are good for 10 years each—depredation of property, destruction of property, conspiracy. And then, of course, the misdemeanor of trespass, which is up to six months. |
AMY GOODMAN: So, the number of years you’re all facing? |
CLARE GRADY: I think it was 25, is how I remember. |
AMY GOODMAN: And are you prepared to serve years in jail? |
CLARE GRADY: The weapons of empire are always the threat of death and torture and incarceration and dehumanization. And so, when we undertake this, as white people of privilege, we are just adding a little tiny bit to what is ongoing of the struggle of people, where the Doomsday Clock has already hit midnight for them ... |
AMY GOODMAN: Clare Grady of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, along with Patrick O’Neill, Carmen Trotta and Martha Hennessy, whose grandmother, Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day, is being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church. The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 face up to 25 years in prison for entering a U.S. nuclear... |
POLICE believe that shops and pubs are getting ‘complacent’ when it comes to selling alcohol to children. |
Last Sunday, Hampshire police carried out juvenile test purchases at 10 pubs and shops in Gosport – with half of these failing the test. |
Penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) and community resolutions were issued – and police will be checking on these places at a later date. |
Hampshire police have refused to identify the five sites that failed this test. |
PC Jason Pearce from Hampshire's Licensing Team said: ‘All failing premises will receive follow-up engagement to help assess their processes and procedures along with recommendations to help make improvements. |
‘Documented training, till systems, refusals and ID check logs are all the basics that should be in place but all too often are not. |
‘Failing premises will be re-tested and a further failure will result in more robust intervention – but at this time we seek to help educate to work with the premises. |
Gosport Borough Councillor Rob Hylands is also the landlord of The Foresters Arms in Anns Hill Road. |
He says that failings like this simply ‘should not happen’. |
Cllr Hylands said: ‘It is a concerning statistic, but if the staff are doing their job properly, this should not happen. |
‘If there is any doubt that someone is even under the age of 25, they would be ID-ed. |
‘The difficulty comes when it is busy, or when groups come in and the person with ID comes to the bar – you have to watch out for that sort of thing. |
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