Swords Into Plowshares, Volume Two: A Chronology of Plowshares Disarmament Actions, 1980-2003 (Catholic Worker Reprint) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608990516 ISBN 13: 9781608990511

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2010

Synopsis

On September 9, 1980, the Plowshares Eight entered a General Electric plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and enacted the biblical command to "beat swords into plowshares" by hammering on the nose cones of two nuclear warheads and pouring blood on documents. Since that time, other small groups and individuals have entered manufacturing plants and military bases throughout the U.S., as well as in Australia, Germany, England, Ireland, Sweden, and Holland, to disarm components of nuclear and conventional weapons systems. As of Spring 2003 there have been over 150 people who, using hammers and other symbols, have carried out over 75 plowshares and related disarmament actions. This book recounts each of the actions that have occurred over the last twenty-three years and includes information about the trials and sentences plowshares activists have received. Photos of some of the actions and participants are also included in this chronology as well as other resources for peace and justice.

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel Berrigan, S.J., is a Catholic priest who was one of the most eloquent voices protesting the Vietnam War in the 1960s, and who has continued to be an outspoken activist against social injustice. He has been arrested more than fifty times and has spent many months in federal prisons. Berrigan is the author of numerous books, including (with Thich Nhat Hanh) The Raft Is Not the Shore: Conversations toward a Buddhist-Christian Awareness and is an accomplished poet. He lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1608990516
• ISBN 13: 9781608990511
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110
• Editor: Laffin Arthur J.