6 Things to Know About Sister Megan Rice’s Sentencing
4. She has raised a lot of awareness against anti-nuclear issues and has become quite well-known and famous
Sister Rice became so well-known and famous for her activism that the United States Department of Energy funded an oral history on her, to help people understand her views and stand on nuclear issues.
5. Her recent sentencing is because of an act she committed on the 28th of July 2012.
On the 28th of July 2012, Rice and her fellow activists, Michael R. Walli, 63 years old, and Gregory I. Boertje-Obed, 57 years old, broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. They then spray-painted antiwar slogans, and splashed blood on the outside of the heavily guarded Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility. This can carry up to a sentence of 20 years and a fine of ten thousand dollars. But then she was sentenced to 35 months and the others were sentenced to 62 months of prison time.
6. Sister Rice is still defiant and declares that she regrets not having done things like this when she was younger.
After the sentence was pronounced, Sister Rice did not break down but triumphantly announces that she regrets not having done these things 70 years ago.
Age has not deterred Sister Rice’s enthusiasm or activism. These three are part of the transform Now Plowshares movement and use a lot of Biblical references to conduct their fight against nuclear power. They ask for people to turn weapons into peaceful tools and call for world peace.
