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Mark 4:26-34 Jesus said, ‘The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would…
Read MoreMay 17, 2018 Democracy Now 50 Years Ago Today: Catonsville 9 Burned Draft Papers with Homemade Napalm to Protest Vietnam War “Fifty years ago today, on May 17, 1968, in…
Read MoreMay 16, 2018 Waging Nonviolence 50 years later, the spirit of the Catonsville Nine lives on By Frida Berrigan “It was a big moment. More than a hundred people watched…
Read MoreMay 15, 2018 Pressenza 7 Anti-Nuke Activists Indicted in Southern District of Georgia Federal Court “Early on the morning of April 5, 2018, seven nuclear abolitionists were arrested inside the…
Read MoreThe production and maintenance of nuclear weapons are a conspiracy to create unparalleled omnicidal weapons that violate national and international law. The production and maintenance of nuclear weapons trespasses on…
Read MoreOur country bound itself in 1945 to the UN Charter which rendered nuclear weapons systems criminal by its purpose is to “save future generations from the scourge of war.” It…
Read MoreMay 4, 2018 Democracy Now Plowshares Activists Indicted over Protest at Kings Bay Naval Base And in Georgia, a federal court has filed an indictment against seven Catholic Plowshares activists…
Read MoreOn April 4, 2018, the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Liz McAlister, 78, Stephen Kelly S.J., 70, Martha Hennessy, 62, Clare Grady, 58, Patrick O’Neill, 62, Mark Colville, 55, and Carmen Trotta, 55, entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base. Carrying hammers and bottles of their own blood, the seven sought to enact and embody the prophet Isaiah’s command to: “Beat swords into plowshares.” In so doing, they were upholding the US Constitution through its requirement to respect treaties, international law through the UN Charter and Nuremburg principles, and higher moral law regarding the sacredness of all creation. They hoped to draw attention to and begin to dismantle what Dr. King called, “the triple evils” of racism, militarism, and extreme materialism.
Read MoreIn an indictment filed this week in the Southern District of Georgia, Brunswick division, the seven were charged with four counts: Conspiracy, Destruction of Property on a Naval Station, Depredation…
Read MoreIn an indictment filed this week in the Southern District of Georgia, Brunswick division, the seven were charged with four counts: Conspiracy, Destruction of Property on a Naval Station, Depredation…
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