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Courage Is Contagious

“It is pretty wild how you can make someone mad by just holding a sign,” my 18-year-old Ro told me, as an irate driver peeled out of the int

Courage Is Contagious

Moving from Fear to Action in a Disturbing World

BY FRIDA BERRIGAN

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Frida Berrigan: The Art of the Submarine

Walk through any art museum and you’re likely to see a mix of the classical and contemporary, impressionist and surrealist, refined and raw, beautiful, eerie, and provocative. Looking at art allows me at least a few moments of relief from the “that’s just the way it is” attitude of our hyper-consumerist, hyper-militarized, hyper-nihilist nation. I can step outside my day-to-day life and accept an…

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Anti-nuclear protesters Kings Bay 7 could be facing 25 years in prison

Anti-nuclear protesters Kings Bay 7 could be facing 25 years in prison

The Kings Bay 7 were trying to put an end to the threat of nuclear war. Now they face a quarter-century behind bars.

18 Feb 2019 |Frida Berrigan| The Nation

Twenty-five years in prison.

That is the possible fate of seven Catholic anti-nuclear activists awaiting trial for their action on April 4, 2018, at the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary’s, Georgia—the largest base of its kind in…

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Frida Berrigan: “Pow, Pow, Yous Are Dead!”

Frida Berrigan: “Pow, Pow, Yous Are Dead!”

Children, Toy Guns, and the Real Thing

It was a beautiful evening and the kids — Madeline, two; Seamus, almost four; and Rosena, nine — were running across a well-tended town green. Seamus pointed his rainbow flag with the feather handle at his sisters and “pow-powed” them, calling out, “Yous are dead now, guys. I shot yous.”

Madeline and Rosena laughed and just kept on running, with Seamus at…

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‘Why Do the Police Kill People?’

Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, “Are They Going to Kill Me?” — Medium

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Frida Berrigan on the meaning of nonviolence

Nonviolence means more than not being violent. It means more than being meek and turning the other cheek. Being nonviolent means digging for the root causes of behaviors, policies, and attitudes. It means understanding, addressing, changing, resisting, and converting. All of that begins with asking why.

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"Can you be fully committed to changing the world and change diapers at the same time?

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“The first Gulf War began when I was in high school,” Frida told me in a recent conversation. She explained that she, along with her younger brother and sister, often accompanied their parents on peace demonstrations in Washington. “At first I felt self-conscious and uncomfortable at the demonstrations as a youngster,” she said. That changed because everybody at Jonah House took part in the demonstrations. “So we went, too, although there were times when I wished I could go to Washington just as a tourist.”

As Frida grew up, she said she was “happy at some demonstrations simply to be part of something—not in stopping the war, but standing among people who felt they had a role and were not a number only.” Eventually she realized, “This is where I want my life to be”—in opposing war and working for peace at all levels. As a young adult, she became increasingly active in planning the demonstrations. “You realize you’ll never organize the one demonstration that will change the world, but it’s important to be part of a movement that will raise the issues involved and provide a space for outrage at the destructiveness of war.”