November 2019

4 reports

  1. The Pope and Catholic Radicals Come Together Against Nuclear Weapons

    from The New Yorker Daily Comment By Paul Elie November 19, 2019 “When something difficult is attempted,” Daniel Berrigan said, “it is like trying to break a rock with an egg.” Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and social radical, who died in 2016, at the age of ninety-four, spent the last third of his life […]

  2. Seven activists arrested at Volk Field mourning children killed by drones

    by Joy First Camp Douglas, WI – Seven peace activists walked onto the base at Volk Field on November 12, wearing black veils, carrying limp dolls and posters of children killed by drones, and reading a statement. They were arrested by Juneau County officers, handcuffed and taken to the station in Mauston, where they were […]

  3. A History of the Plowshares Movement – a talk by Art Laffin, October 22, 2019

    Plowshares activist and Catholic Worker Art Laffin is the editor (with the late Sr. Anne Montgomery) of two editions of Swords into Plowshares – Nonviolent Direct Action for Disarmament (Harper & Row, 1987 and Fortkamp, 1996). He delivered the following historical review to about 100 supporters of the Kings Bay Plowshares gathered in Brunswick, Georgia […]

  4. Kings Bay Plowshares Found Guilty on All Charges – A summary of the trial

    A JURY FOUND THEM GUILTY, BUT TRIDENT IS THE CRIME. Late in the afternoon of October 24, the seven members of the Kings Bay Plowshares – Martha Hennessy, Clare Grady, Elizabeth McAlister, Patrick O’Neill, Carmen Trotta, Mark Colville and Fr. Steve Kelly – were convicted by a jury in federal court in Brunswick, Georgia. The […]