Malachy Kilbride

Malachy Kilbride is an activist presently serving as the president of the board of The Washington Peace Center, www.washingtonpeacecenter.net , in Washington DC and has served on the national coordinating committee of Declaration of Peace and presently the coordinating body of the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (fromerly Iraq Pledge of Resistance).

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 now a working committee of Washington Peace Center.

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 almost 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 prisoners.

In March 2007 he was one of 7 people, known as the Hart 7, arrested for an act of nonviolent civil resistance, called "The Tombstone Action" 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, 2007 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 but guilty of unlawful assembly.

On January 11, 2008 he was arrested with over 80 others inside and outside The United States Supreme Court calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp. This nonviolent demonstration was a part of the Witness Against Torture call to shut down Guantanamo. He was put on trial with 34 Witness Against Torture Activists and subsequently found guilty of "Unlawful Free Speech" by Judge Wendell Gardner of the DC Superior Court.

He continues his work with NCNR, Washington Peace Center, and Witness Against Torture and the 100 Days Campaign initiated by Witness Against Torture.

See: www.witnesstorture.org

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