Prison Journals of a Priest Revolutionary by Philip Berrigan

The weapons and a spiritual conversion of the heart to the way of Personal responsibility for the dismantling and physical conversion of Poverty, the arms race and economic sanctions and acceptance of Sacredness of all life and creation a plea for justice for victims of Nonviolent love can overcome the forces of violence a reverence for the Introduction to Swords Into Plowshares: A Chronology of Plowshares Disarmament Actions: Plowshares activists hope to communicate through their actions in his The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House in Washington, DC, speaks to what Waging peace has its price, have served a substantial amount of time inĪrt Laffin, a lifelong Plowshares activist and community member of Many of its activists, who understand that The 'Plowshares disarmament movement' is now With this act, the first of over 75 Plowshares disarmamentĪctions came into being. On warhead documents and order forms, and prayed for disarmament and Hammered on two nose cones of Mark 12A warheads, poured their own blood Said a decisive 'NO!' to nuclear madness by entering the GeneralĮlectric Re-entry Division in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. On September 9th, 1980, Berrigan and seven others United States now included an arsenal of 30,000 nuclear warheads and aįirst-strike policy. Landscape described by Berrigan had worsened.

Post-Vietnam, the American political, economic, and militaristic And war tends to be the ultimate rationality, because reason hasīeen bankrupted of human alternatives (5). Its riches are to be divided unequally among equals, and that the onlyĬriterion for the division is the amount of naked power at its disposal,ĭiplomacy tends to be essentially military, truth tends to beįiction, and the world tends to become a zoo without the benefit ofĬages. When a people arbitrarily decides that this planet and While imprisoned after his 1967 Baltimore 4 action, Philip Berrigan, in his Prison Journals of a Priest Revolutionary, wrote:

Prison Journals of a Priest Revolutionary by Philip Berrigan