Megan Rice

Megan Gillespie Rice ( born January 31, 1930 in Manhattan, New York City ) is an American peace activist. Rice is a nun of the Catholic Order of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. It participates in the peace movement since the 1980s.

Rice broke in July 2012 together with the two peace activists Greg Boertje - Obed and Michael Walli, both Vietnam veterans, as part of a protest in the Y -12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a. Here fissile material for nuclear weapons production are generated. In February 2014 Rice was sentenced to five years and two months in prison for sabotage and damage to state property to two years and eleven months in prison, Boertje - Obed and Walli.