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Today on Midday, a conversation about the work of Philip Berrigan, whose writing has been assembled in a new collection, A Ministry of Risk, edited by Brad Wolf.  Philip Berrigan was an iconic peace activist, a soldier, a priest, a scholar, and a protester who came to international prominence as part of the Catonsville 9, a group that burned draft cards in 1968, during the Vietnam war. In 1973, Berrigan, with his wife, Elizabeth McAlister, founded Jonah House in Baltimore, a Catholic Worker House inspired by the gospel nonviolence work of Dorothy Day. Program guests include Brad Wolf, cofounder of Peace Action Network of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We also speak with Brendan Walsh and Willa Bickham, the founders of a Catholic Worker House in Southwest Baltimore called Viva House.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

“Peace is the duty of our time,” Phillip Berrigan told a class of college students in 1965. 60 years later, it remains so. Berrigan was an iconic peace activist, a soldier, a priest, a scholar, and a protester who came to international prominence as part of the Catonsville 9, a group that burned draft cards in 1968, during the Vietnam war. In 1973, Berrigan, with his wife, Elizabeth McAlister, founded Jonah House in Baltimore, a Catholic Worker House inspired by the gospel nonviolence work of Dorothy Day. Today on Midday, a conversation about the work of Philip Berrigan, whose writing has been assembled in a new collection, A Ministry of Risk. Brad Wolf edited the work. He is a lawyer, former prosecutor, professor, and community college dean. He is cofounder of Peace Action Network of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, an affiliate of Peace Action and a partner of World BEYOND War. Brad's writings have been published in The Progressive, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, Antiwar.com, Consortium News, and Dappled Things. We also speak with Brendan Walsh and Willa Bickham, the founders of a Catholic Worker House in Southwest Baltimore called Viva House. On July 4, the 2024 Peace Walk is set to take place in Washington, D.C.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

Dans cette deuxième partie, nous poursuivons notre voyage historique, anthropologique et spirituel dans l'univers fascinant du vodou haïtien, en nous plongeant au cœur de ses aspects métaphysiques. Qu'est-ce que la philosophie vodou ? Comment les notions de divin, de bien, de mal, d'âme, d'individu, sont-elles conceptualisées dans le paradigme vodou ? Au passage, nous nous intéresserons à la notion de genre dans la culture vodou, laquelle démontre une vision notablement inclusive vis-à-vis des genres et des sexualités alternatives. Au détour d'un poétique passage conté, je vous ferai aussi découvrir une recette de prêtresse haïtienne pour soigner les « limbés », les chagrins d'amour… Pour finir, nous effectuerons un voyage accéléré dans l'histoire coloniale et postcoloniale haïtienne, pour comprendre comment et pourquoi le vaudou (et plus largement, Haïti toute entière) en est venu à être stigmatisé et diabolisé dans l'imaginaire collectif global. Vagabondage poétique en fin d'émission : Soufi Mon Amour, par la romancière turque Elif Shafak. Paris, trad.(en) Dominique Letellier, Éditions Phébus, 2010, 405 p. Sources bibliographiques : Philippe Descola, “L'animisme est-il une religion ? », in Sciences Humaines, Grands Dossiers, n°5, déc. 2006 Douglas J. Falen, African Science Witchcraft, Vodun, and Healing in Southern Benin, 2018, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison. Robin Horton, “African Traditional Thought and Western Science, Part I. From Tradition to Science”, in 1967, Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp.50-71. Laënnec HURBON, “Le statut du vodou et l'histoire de l'anthropologie”, in Gradhiva, Revue d'anthropologie et d'histoire des arts, no 1, 2005, pp. 153-163. Elizabeth McAlister, “Love, Sex and Gender Embodied: The Spirits of Haitian Vodou”, pp. 128–145, in Love, Gender and Sexuality in the World Religions, Nancy Martin et Joseph Runzo, (éds.), 2000, Oxford Oneworld Press. Karen McCarthy Brown, “Afro-Caribbean Spirituality: A Haitian Case Study”, pp. 1-26, in Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture, Claudine Michel and Patrick Bellegarde-Smith (éds.), 2006, Palgrave McMillan, New York. Claudine Michel, “Vodou in Haiti: Way of Life and Mode of Survival”, pp. 27-38, in Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture, Claudine Michel et Patrick Bellegarde-Smith (éds.), 2006, Palgrave McMillan, New York. Pierre Pluchon, « Vaudou, sorciers, empoisonneurs, de Saint-Domingue à Haïti », in Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 79, n°296, 3e trimestre 1992. pp. 434-435. Tomas Prower, Magic LGBT+ Spirituality and Culture From Around the World, p.83, 2018, Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Worldwide. Mambo Chita Tann, Haïtian Vodou, An Introduction to Haiti's Indigenous Spiritual Tradition, 2012, Llewellyn Publications, Woodbury. Crédits sonores : GENERIQUES : « Alanoulé », Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko, Nunto, Boulokossi Production (autoproduction), 2016. Avec l'aimable autorisation de l'auteur et de son label. « Mèsi Bondyé », Harry Belafonte, Frantz Casseus, enregistrement de 1956 “Fre Se Siyate”, Sò Anne, TuneCore (on behalf of Hit Lab LLC) “Tears that collapse like aurora raindrops of sunlight”, Artificial.Music https://soundcloud.com/artificial-music Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/2nYoPCn Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ChPk0BekVKY “Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haïti”, Maya Deren,55 minutes, extrait (50 secondes), Light Cone,1954 “Accralate” Kevin MacLeod, Royalty Free Link - http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Genre Link - http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Song – “Accralate”, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Slow Heat", Kevin MacLeod Website, Royalty Free Link - http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Genre Link - http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...

This show came from a New 4 Jacksonville Article on June 8th 2020 (https://www.news4jax.com/news/georgia…). In April 2018, Elizabeth McAlister age 80 was caught trespassing and trying to vandalize government property on Kings Bay Submarine Base. It is kind of funny, but not really. Elizabeth was one of seven defendants caught carrying hammers and baby bottles […]

Space Force: an expensive PR ploy w/dangerous nuclear implications re: nukes in space explained by Beyond Nuclear's Linda Pentz Gunter. Elizabeth McAlister of Kings Bay Plowshares 7 released w/time served! 9th Anniversary Episode, complete with testimonials and attagirls!!

Space Force: an expensive PR ploy w/dangerous nuclear implications re: nukes in space explained by Beyond Nuclear's Linda Pentz Gunter. Elizabeth McAlister of Kings Bay Plowshares 7 released w/time served! 9th Anniversary Episode, complete with testimonials and attagirls!!

Space Force: an expensive PR ploy w/dangerous nuclear implications re: nukes in space explained by Beyond Nuclear's Linda Pentz Gunter. Elizabeth McAlister of Kings Bay Plowshares 7 released w/time served! 9th Anniversary Episode, complete with testimonials and attagirls!!

Today, we highlight grassroots movements to disarm and divest from the U.S. military industrial complex amid the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, over 90,000 people are counted in the official death count in the United States. Experts say the real number is much higher due to the numbers of people who have died at home from the virus. The U.S. has close to 1.5 million cases. Black, Latino, Indigenous and impoverished communities have been hardest hit by COVID-19. Meanwhile, as death rates continue to rise in the United States from COVID-19, not only is Donald Trump busy trying to re-open the country and play down the death count, but he is continuing to implement his conservative agenda in the United States, which years ago would have been considered fringe. This includes rolling back environmental protections and civil and human rights. The administration is ramping up aggressive action against other countries. He continues to promote action against China, spreading the unproven theory that the virus began in a lab in Wuhan, China. The Trump administration is also continuing to support a change in government in Venezuela, attempting to overthrow that countrys democratically-elected government. Also, he continues to ramp up hostilities against Iran after scuttling the nuclear power deal. What price are people in the U.S. and around the world paying for the massive military budget, the largest in the world? The Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons has pointed out that the U.S. spent $35.1 billion on nuclear weapons in 2019. This could have provided: 300,000 intensive-care beds, 35,000 ventilators, and the salaries for 150,000 nurses and 75,000 doctors. If only a small portion of conventional weapons spending were redirected, many more supplies could be available for first responders, essential workers and impoverished people across the U.S. Today, you will hear audio from a recent webinar entitled, Disarm & Divest During COVID-19. The webinar was hosted by CODEPINK, a women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism. It focused on the continued build-up of militarism and the destitute condition of our world before and during the pandemic. It also shed light on civil resistance disarmament actions, such as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, who are facing sentencing for their nonviolent symbolic disarmament action at the largest nuclear sub-base in the world. Kings Bay Naval Station houses one-quarter of the U.S. deployed nuclear weapons. The panelists demand that instead of spending money on war, the U.S. should direct funds towards health care for all, particularly during COVID-19 and all future pandemics. Speakers include Dr. Cornel West, Jeremy Scahill, Medea Benjamin, The Kings Bay Plowshares 7, Martha Hennessy, Steve Kelly, Carmen Trotta, Clare Grady, Elizabeth McAlister, Mark Colville and Patrick ONeill.

Today, we highlight grassroots movements to disarm and divest from the U.S. military industrial complex amid the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, over 90,000 people are counted in the official death count in the United States. Experts say the real number is much higher due to the numbers of people who have died at home from the virus. The U.S. has close to 1.5 million cases. Black, Latino, Indigenous and impoverished communities have been hardest hit by COVID-19. Meanwhile, as death rates continue to rise in the United States from COVID-19, not only is Donald Trump busy trying to re-open the country and play down the death count, but he is continuing to implement his conservative agenda in the United States, which years ago would have been considered fringe. This includes rolling back environmental protections and civil and human rights. The administration is ramping up aggressive action against other countries. He continues to promote action against China, spreading the unproven theory that the virus began in a lab in Wuhan, China. The Trump administration is also continuing to support a change in government in Venezuela, attempting to overthrow that countrys democratically-elected government. Also, he continues to ramp up hostilities against Iran after scuttling the nuclear power deal. What price are people in the U.S. and around the world paying for the massive military budget, the largest in the world? The Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons has pointed out that the U.S. spent $35.1 billion on nuclear weapons in 2019. This could have provided: 300,000 intensive-care beds, 35,000 ventilators, and the salaries for 150,000 nurses and 75,000 doctors. If only a small portion of conventional weapons spending were redirected, many more supplies could be available for first responders, essential workers and impoverished people across the U.S. Today, you will hear audio from a recent webinar entitled, Disarm & Divest During COVID-19. The webinar was hosted by CODEPINK, a women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism. It focused on the continued build-up of militarism and the destitute condition of our world before and during the pandemic. It also shed light on civil resistance disarmament actions, such as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, who are facing sentencing for their nonviolent symbolic disarmament action at the largest nuclear sub-base in the world. Kings Bay Naval Station houses one-quarter of the U.S. deployed nuclear weapons. The panelists demand that instead of spending money on war, the U.S. should direct funds towards health care for all, particularly during COVID-19 and all future pandemics. Speakers include Dr. Cornel West, Jeremy Scahill, Medea Benjamin, The Kings Bay Plowshares 7, Martha Hennessy, Steve Kelly, Carmen Trotta, Clare Grady, Elizabeth McAlister, Mark Colville and Patrick ONeill.

Anti-nuclear, anti-war protestors from the Kings Bay Plowshares action. Front row (l-r) – Clare Grady, Elizabeth McAlister, Carmen Trotta, Martha Hennessy; Back row: Patrick O’Neill, Stephen Kelly SJ, Mark Colville. This Week’s Featured Interview: Anti-nuclear, anti-war – the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. These Catholic Peace Activists performed a peaceful action protesting the nuclear weapons aboard...

The anti-nuclear activist Elizabeth McAlister, a founder of Baltimore's Jonah House, talks about her conviction in a federal court as one of the activists known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7.

On Sunday, Thomas D’Alesandro, III passed away at the age of 90. He was part of a Baltimore-based powerhouse political dynasty that includes his younger sister, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and a father who served as both Mayor and member of the US Congress. Joining Tom to talk about the legacy of ”Young Tommy,” as he came to be known, is Fraser Smith, a former news man at WYPR and a former chief political reporter for the Baltimore Sun. He was also a columnist for the Maryland Daily Record.This conversation was livestreamed on WYPR's Facebook Page. Watch the video here, beginning at 42:30 into the feed and concluding at 51:30.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, An update to a story we’ve been following for the past couple of years. Yesterday was the first day of the trial of Elizabeth McAlister and the group of protesters known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. They are facing charges in federal court in Georgia for their anti-nuclear protest at the Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia in April, 2018. After being arrested at that protest, Liz McAlister and one other protester spent more than a year and a half in jail. Others were on home detention. She and her fellow activists face decades in prison, if convicted. The trial is expected to take about a week. We’ll keep you posted.

The Kingsbay Ploughshares 7 are facing 25 years in prison for their action at a nuclear submarine base. We speak with six of them: Elizabeth McAlister, Martha Hennessy, Mark Colville, Clare Grady, Patrick O'Neill, and Carmen Trotta. https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/

On April 4, 2018, the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, seven Catholic peace activists cut fences and entered the King’s Bay Naval Base in Southeast Georgia, to protest the United States nuclear weapons arsenal. King’s Bay is presumed to be home to several Trident Nuclear Submarines. They called their protest a “Plowshares Action,” inspired by the book of Isaiah, from the famous passage, “They shall beat their swords into plowshares.” The King’s Bay 7, as they have come to be known, were arrested, and held at the Glynn County Detention Center in Brunswick GA.Four of the defendants accepted terms of release that allowed them to return to their homes while they awaited trial. Three of the activists, Elizabeth McAlister, who lived for decades here in Baltimore; a Jesuit priest from New York, Fr. Steve Kelly; and an activist from New Haven, CT, Mark Colville, chose to remain in jail.Fifteen months later, they are still there. Pre-trial hearings were held last November. Another hearing is scheduled before US Judge Lisa Godbey- Wood on August 7th. If the Judge decides to deny the defense motion to dismiss, the case will go to trial.I spoke with Liz McAlister from jail last January, in an interview that aired here on Midday on the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. She had recently celebrated her 79th birthday. This is the second time in her long life of activism that she’s been incarcerated for an extended period. She and the others have been charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor trespassing violation. If convicted, they could face up to 25 years in prison. Part of their defense invokes the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a 1993 law which protects the exercise of religion. That same act was key to the Hobby Lobby case in 2014, in which the company sought to deny its employees health care coverage for contraception because it violated the company’s religious principles. The King’s Bay 7 claim that because the Catholic Church considers nuclear weapons immoral, the Government must accommodate their religious beliefs. There have been more than 100 Plowshares actions since the 1980s. This is the first time a court is being asked to consider this particular line of defense. The founders of our country codified in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States freedoms and liberties that countless people have lost their lives defending, including the revolutionaries whose sacrifice we celebrate this weekend. Those freedoms and liberties were not extended to all at the outset of our founding. Many of those freedoms continue to be elusive for some people for reasons having perhaps less to do with law and more to do with hate and animus. And while the founders could not imagine a group of people like the King’s Bay 7, they did assert that the goal of a government should be to construct a republic in which citizens could flourish in whatever manner that meant for them as individuals. They understood that the pursuit of happiness means something different to every one of us. Elizabeth McAlister and her fellow activists have devoted their lives to the assertion that nuclear annihilation is a real and present danger. They are willing to sacrifice their liberty, comfort and their own pursuit of happiness to protest against our country’s participation in that danger. They are taking a stand, a stand not shared by the overwhelming majority of their fellow citizens, and they are exercising their freedom to discuss and display their convictions in a court of law. As a practical matter, will these Plowshares actions lead to nuclear disarmament in the U.S. or elsewhere? No. But will the King’s Bay 7’s dedication to the cause of peace, and their unrelenting reminders of the dangers of war, serve as an inspiration for others who commit to making our country more tolerant, less racist, fairer, more compassionate? Yes, I think they will. On this Fourth of July, as we celebrate the principals upon which this great nation was formed, and the courage of the founders who risked their lives and liberty to achieve freedom for all of us, let us also acknowledge the courage and sacrifice of people like Elizabeth McAlister for reminding us, from a jail cell in Georgia, what freedom means.

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On this special edition of Midday observing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 2019, three conversations around three areas that defined Dr. King’s work: economic justice; non-violent resistance and dreaming of a future where hard work and talent are rewarded, without regard to race. Later in the broadcast (and posted sequentially on our Webpage and podcast stream), we’ll hear an interview I conducted with the peace activist Elizabeth McAlister, to whom Tom spoke earlier this month from her jail in Georgia, where she is awaiting trial after an anti-nuclear protest at a US naval base, where she and six others were arrested last April. We’ll also meet a gifted and compelling 10 year-old girl named Charlie Martin, who is this year’s winner in the Dream Big Essay Contest for Baltimore City public school children. We’ll hear about her dreams of becoming a writer. We begin today with a conversation about the American Dream, and how access to that dream has evolved for African Americans since King’s movement in the 1960s. President Donald Trump often asserts that Black unemployment is at an historic low. We’ll examine that claim, and talk about a report released last year by the Associated Black Charities that analyzed employment rates in Baltimore City through the lens of race. Tom's guests are Anirban Basu, the chairman and CEO of the Sage Policy Group, and the chair of the Maryland Economic Development Commission. He also hosts the Morning Economic Report here on WYPR…And the Rev. Dr. Heber Brown III is pastor at the Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore, and the founder and executive director of Orita’s Cross Freedom School, and the Black Church Food Security Network.

On this Martin Luther King Day, Midday's special edition celebrates the man who brought the philosophy of non-violent protest to a broad public. It seemed to us a good time to update you on the story of Elizabeth McAlister, who has devoted her life to the cause of non-violence. Elizabeth McAlister is a former nun who was married to Philip Berrigan, a former priest. He was a member of the Catonsville Nine, activists who burned draft files in the parking lot of the Catonsville Draft Board in 1968. They served time in prison, and they inspired a number of other anti-draft and anti-war protests in the 1960s and 70s. Philip’s brother was the activist and poet Daniel Berrigan. Philip Berrigan died in 2002. Daniel Berrigan passed away at the age of 94 in 2016. In 1973, Philip Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister founded Jonah House, a faith-based community of peace activists dedicated to non-violent resistance. It is located in West Baltimore. Currently, there are five people living there. The activism of the Catonsville Nine in the 1960s evolved, over time, to what have come to be known as “Plowshares Actions,” inspired by the Biblical passage from the prophet Isaiah which says, “they will beat their swords into plowshares.” Beginning in the 1980s, activists in the United States and elsewhere have concentrated their efforts on protesting nuclear weapons.On April 4, 2018, the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination, Elizabeth McAlister and six other protesters cut fences and entered the King’s Bay Naval Base in Southeast Georgia, to protest the United States nuclear weapons arsenal. King’s Bay is presumed to be home to several Trident Nuclear Submarines. The protesters were arrested, and they are awaiting trial in Federal District Court in Georgia. Four of the protesters accepted terms of release before trial that allowed them to return to their homes. They are required to wear ankle bracelets, and their travel is restricted. Elizabeth McAlister and two others, Fr. Steve Kelly, a Jesuit priest from the West Coast Province, and Mark Colville, a Catholic Worker from New Haven CT, chose to await trial in the Glynn County Detention Center in Brunswick, GA. On January 9th, Tom spoke with Elizabeth McAlister from that jail. She was able to place the call to Tom,, but the time of phone calls from the jail is limited by jail authorities. (And, as you’ll hear, the phone connection wasn’t great:)

On this holiday in which we celebrate independence and the courage of our revolutionary heroes, a word about a different kind of revolutionary, and her exercise of the free speech and religious practice the founders fought for.Elizabeth McAlister has lived at Jonah House, on the West Side of Baltimore, for most of the last 50 years. She and her husband, the anti-war activist Philip Berrigan, founded Jonah House as part of a network of Catholic Worker Houses across the country. Philip was one of the Catonsville Nine, who burned draft records in 1968, setting-off a series of similar actions across the country. He died in 2002, but McAlister has continued to protest against violence and war, in particular, nuclear weapons.In April, on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, McAlister and six others cut through a fence and entered the King’s Bay Naval Submarine Base in Camden County, GA, which is home to a fleet of Trident Submarines, which carry nuclear war heads.The group’s purpose was to commit what they call a Ploughshares Action, based on a phrase from Isaiah in the Bible:“They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.”The first Ploughshares Action took place in 1980. Since then, more than 100 similar protests have occurred in the United States and around the world.  When Elizabeth McAlister and her fellow activists entered the King’s Bay Naval Base, they were arrested, as they hoped they would be. They want a trial, so they can introduce evidence that contends that nuclear weapons are illegal, and that the United States is in violation of American and International law by using them, or even threatening to use them. It’s not a widely held legal theory.In a world that presents the kind of threats it presents, making an argument for complete nuclear disarmament is a tough sell, and many abhor the group’s strategy of breaking the law in civil disobedience. But these activists are afforded the right under our constitution to press their case, and they do so, animated by an intense faith in God, and their understanding of the message articulated by Jesus in the Christian New Testament.A pre-trial motion is scheduled for early next month. I spoke with one of their lawyers, who thinks that a trial might take place in November or December. Three of the activists posted bond, and were released from Federal prison. They are wearing ankle bracelets and are confined to their homes. McAlister and three others chose to stay in jail, in Brunswick, GA, and as they await trial, they’re engaging in prison ministry, helping their fellow inmates communicate with lawyers and families, and deal with the stress of incarceration.We’ll have updates as this case proceeds in the courts. And on this holiday when we celebrate the conviction and commitment to the democratic principles of our revolutionary forbearers, let’s pause to consider Elizabeth McAlister, a former nun, who at age 78 is so completely committed to her principles of non-violence that she is willing to forego her own physical freedom, and exercise her right to freedom of speech to make a point about the world’s right to be free of the threat of nuclear destruction.As we celebrate the courage and sacrifice of our founders, let’s also acknowledge the courage and sacrifice it sometimes takes to make use of the freedoms those revolutionaries fought for. I’m Tom Hall. Happy holiday.