Scores brave bitter cold to get seat for Y-12 protesters' sentencing [View all]

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Source: Knoxville News Sentinel

Photo by Michael Patrick
Supporters line up to go through security for a seat in the courtroom as three Y-12 protesters -- Sister Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed -- are sentenced by U.S. District Judge Amul R. Thapar at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Federal Courthouse Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)

Scores of people braved bitterly cold temperatures Tuesday morning to get a seat for the sentencings of three Plowshares protesters who broke into the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant.

Space inside the U.S. District courtroom downtown was limited.

Sister Megan Rice, an 83-year-old Catholic nun, who’ll turn 84 in two days, and Michael R. Walli, 64, are both from Washington, D.C.; Greg Boertje-Obed, 58, is from Duluth, Minn., were convicted in May on federal charges of attempting to injure the national defense and depredation of government property.

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The veteran activists have said they hoped to draw the world’s attention to the continued manufacture of nuclear weapons at the Oak Ridge plant and the government’s plans to spend billions of dollars on a new production facility at the site.

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