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Watch the video below
with Chris Hedges
RT America on Jan 19, 2019
The nature and cost of civil disobedience is explored in the play “The Trial of the Cantonsville Nine,” written by the Catholic priest Dan Berrigan.
Berrigan along with 8 other Catholics, entered Local Board No. 33 in Cantonsville, Maryland on May 17, 1968, and seized the Selective Service records. They carted them outside to the parking lot in metal trash cans and lit them on fire with napalm made from a recipe in the Special Forces Handbook. They stood and prayed around the bonfire until they were arrested. They were protesting not only the war in Vietnam but “every major presumption underlying American life.” To discuss the play and its importance is the director, Jack Cummings III, and one of the actors, Eunice Wong.
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The Time Is Up–The Time Is Now
The Problem is Civil Obedience by Howard Zinn + Matt Damon Reads from Howard Zinn’s Speech
Chris Hedges: The Legacy of Father Daniel Berrigan
Antiwar Priest and Poet Father Daniel Berrigan Dead at Age 94
Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence By Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Chris Hedges: We Must Grasp Reality to Build Effective Resistance, Part 3
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Father Daniel was amazing. I wish today’s insanely ignorant christian fundamentalists would learn from him. His words and deeds might just be what they need to evolve as human beings.
Me, too, but very, very unlikely.
So true.