| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 387 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface. Coming to the Project ; Collecting and Shaping the Stories -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Dan McKanan -- Precursors to the Plowshares Movement. Dick Von Korff ; Bradford Lyttle ; Robert (Bob) Wollheim ; Tom Lewis ; Willa Bickham ; Michael Cullen ; Annette (Nettie) Cullen ; Tom Lewis, Chuck Quilty, and Marcia Timmel ; Mary Anne Grady Flores ; Mike Giocondo -- "Let's Do It Again!" : The Berrigans and Jonah House. Father Dan Berrigan, SJ ; Phil Berrigan ; Elizabeth (Liz) McAlister ; Frida Berrigan ; Jerry Berrigan ; Kate Berrigan -- Beating Swords into Plowshares : Plowshares Communities and Their Actions. Sister Anne Montgomery, RSCJ ; Kathleen Rumpf ; John LaForge ; Father Carl Kabat, OMI ; Jean and Joe Gump ; Darla Bradley ; An Interlude : Michele Naar-Obed and Joe Gump on the Use of Blood ; Father John Dear, SJ ; Katya Komisaruk ; An Interlude : Karl Meyer, Joan Cavanagh, and Jim Forest Critique the Plowshares Movement ; Mark Colville ; Sisters Carol Gilbert, Jackie Hudson, and Ardeth Platte, OP -- Catholic Worker Communities and Resistance. Robert Ellsberg ; Steve Woolford and Lenore Yarger ; Claire and Scott Schaeffer-Duffy ; Steve Baggarly and Kim Williams ; Brian Terrell ; Paul Gallagher ; Judith Williams ; Father Tom Lumpkin ; Michele Naar-Obed ; Roundtable on Resistance -- Resister Communities : Syracuse, New York, and Hartford, Connecticut. Ed Kinane ; Ann Tiffany ; Andy Mager ; Rae Kramer ; Kathleen Rumpf ; Genevieve (Mickey) Allen ; Teri Allen ; Brian Kavanagh ; Jackie Allen-Doucot ; Micah Allen-Doucot ; Chris Allen-Doucot -- Resister Families. Kim and Bill Wahl ; Jim and Shelley Douglass ; Anne S. Hall ; Barb Kass ; Ollie Miles ; Mike Miles ; Frances Crowe ; Hattie Nestel ; Joni McCoy ; Tom Karlin ; Harry Murray -- After the Millennium. Ana Grady Flores ; Dan Burns ; Becky Johnson ; Steve Downs ; Kathy Kelly, with Father Joe Mulligan, SJ ; Camilo Mejia -- Epilogue : Winter Begins / Morgan Guyton -- Afterword / Bill Quigley |
| Summary |
In this collection of oral histories, more than seventy-five peacemakers describe how they say no to war-making in the strongest way possible - by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences in jail or prison. These courageous resisters leave family and community and life on the outside in their efforts to direct U.S. policy away from its militarism. Many are Catholic Workers, devoting their lives to the works of mercy instead of the works of war. They are homemakers and carpenters and social workers and teachers who are often called "faith-based activists." They speak from the left of the political perspective, providing a counterpoint to the faith-based activism of the fundamentalist Right. In their own words, the narrators describe their motivations and their preparations for acts of resistance, the actions themselves, and their trials and subsequent jail time. We hear from those who do their time by caring for their families and managing communities while their partners are imprisoned. Spouses and children talk frankly of the strains on family ties that a life of working for peace in the world can cause. The voices range from a World War II conscientious objector to those protesting the war in Iraq. The book includes sections on resister families, the Berrigans and Jonah House, the Plowshares Communities, the Syracuse Peace Council, and Catholic Worker houses and communities. The introduction by Dan McKanan situates these activists in the long tradition of resistance to war and witness to peace. -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-369) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest, viewed September 21, 2017) |
| Subject |
Pacifists -- United States -- Case studies
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Pacifism -- United States -- Case studies
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Passive resistance -- United States -- Case studies
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Political prisoners -- United States -- Case studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace
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Pacifism
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Pacifists
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Passive resistance
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Political prisoners
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Riegle, Rosalie G
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| LC no. |
2012029830 |
| ISBN |
9780826518736 |
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0826518737 |
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1283747219 |
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9781283747219 |
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