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NH #586: Kings Bay Plowshares 7 – Catholic Anti-Nuclear Activists Martha Hennessey, Patrick O’Neill This Week’s Featured Interview: The Kings Bay Plowshares are a group of seven Catholic peace activists who broke into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia on April 4th, 2018, and carried out a symbolic act of protest against nuclear...

Hosts: Joanne Leon and Kelley Lane. Guest: Sam Husseini. We talk about his recent article, Albright's Funeral -- The Sword and the Cross Come Together and more. In a bonus question, we talk about the convergence of neoliberal and neoconservative actors in the foreign policy establishment and the Biden administration.  Sam Husseini is a Washington, DC metro based independent journalist who has been piercing through the establishment's falsifications for 25 years. His more recent work includes the possible lab origin of the pandemic (which he started writing about in its early days) and the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 trial. In the 1990s and 2000s he covered the Yugoslavia Wars, sanctions policy against Iraq and the Iraq war. He has rigorously questioned officials including Colin Powell, Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi, Saudi Amb. Turki bin Faisal al-Saud and many others.  FOLLOW Sam on Twitter at @samhusseini and subscribe to his Substack.  Find his past writings at http://husseini.org/ and his artwork at https://bethatempty.org/. Around the Empire aroundtheempire.com is listener supported, independent media. SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW on Rokfin rokfin.com/aroundtheempire, Patreon patreon.com/aroundtheempire, Paypal paypal.me/aroundtheempirepod, YouTube youtube.com/aroundtheempire, Spotify, iTunes, iHeart, Google Podcasts FOLLOW @aroundtheempire and @joanneleon.  Join us on TELEGRAM https://t.me/AroundtheEmpire Find everything on http://aroundtheempire.com  and linktr.ee/aroundtheempire Reference Links: Albright's Funeral -- The Sword and the Cross Come Together Autopsy Of A Disaster: The U.S. Sanctions Policy On Iraq, Institute for Public Accuracy

Catholic Workers – students of peace activism – knowers of Father Berrigan and the Plowshares movement – are already aware that this week was the fourth anniversary of the Kings Bay Plowshares action protesting the U.S. military's nuclear stockpile. It is also the week that Martin Luther King was assassinated, over three decades ago. Less than a year before he was murdered, Dr. King addressed the National Conference of New Politics and argued that the American society was spoiled by 3 evils – Racism, Materialism and Militarism.Three Evils of Society: Racism, Materialism, and MilitarismThis week -- sitting on the edge of the Peace Statue at the Isaiah Wall across from the UN, I spoke with three Catholic Workers who participated and went to jail for cutting through the fence of the largest and most lethal submarine base in the world at Kings Bay, Georgia. They spilt their blood from baby bottles and hung banners calling for nuclear disarmament -- Martha Hennessy - Clare Grady - Mark Colville. We spoke at the end of their day-long walk which started at Riverside Church where MLK had delivered his “3 Evils of Society” speech in 1967. Their walk was organized by the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 group, Ellen Grady and Anthony Donovan. Also, I spoke with Mary Yelenick -- Main Representative at the United Nations for Pax Christi International and a member of the NGO Working Group on the Security Council. Alan Winson See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As the war drums are beating and as New Mexico Archbishop urges nuclear disarmament, we wanted to replay this interview with Father Patrick O'Neill. Indigo radio interviewed Patrick O'Neill who is just about to serve a federal sentence for breaking in to the Kings Bay naval base in Georgia with his comrades to protest against the trident missiles. Trident missiles are housed on submarines at Kings Bay ready to be deployed to start a nuclear war. Listen to Patrick recollect the history of this movement and why he is willing to go to prison to protest against the Trident Missiles.

Martha Hennessy is an American peace activist and member of the Catholic Worker movement. She is the granddaughter of Servant of God, Dorothy Day. The books/podcasts/organizations we mentioned on the show: • Catholic Worker Movement: o https://www.catholicworker.org/ • Kings Bay Plowshares 7: o https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/about/bios/martha-hennesy/ Support this podcast! https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E356519&i d=2

What are you willing to risk for what you believe? Fr. Steve Kelly, SJ, is a peace activist and a member of the Plowshares movement, a largely Catholic movement of pacifists that protests nuclear weapons by damaging weapons and military property. He has spent at least a decade of his life behind bars for his witness, and was just released recently for what was called the Kings Bay Plowshares action. On April 4, 2018, Fr. Kelly and six other Catholic activists cut a hole in a security fence at the Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia, where several nuclear submarines are kept. They hung a banner, spray painted Love One Another on the pavement, poured their own blood on a seal of the base, and pounded the display of a tomahawk missile with a hammer. They were willingly arrested two hours after entry. Host Mike Jordan Laskey asked Fr. Kelly about why he chooses to participate in these actions despite the risks. They also talked about his vocation story to the Jesuits and his experience with the criminal justice system. Fr. Kelly is a gentle, warm person and this conversation will quietly challenge you to think and pray about how you live what you say you believe. AMDG is a production of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States.

Martha Hennessy is a grandmother of 8, a retired occupational therapist, and a federal prisoner. The 65-year old resident of Weathersfield, Vt. is in jail, along with six other pacifists, for breaking into a Georgia submarine base in 2018, spilling blood and spray-painting anti-war slogans to protest against the threat of nuclear weapons. The group is known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. The name refers to the prophet Isaiah who said that swords shall be beaten into plowshares. “I have no criminal intent; I want to help prevent another nuclear holocaust,” Hennessy said in her statement. Hennessy is the granddaughter of Dorothy Day, the legendary co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, which is committed to nonviolence and working for the poor. Pope Francis has cited Day as a “great American” and the Vatican has given her the title “Servant of God,” the first step towards sainthood. I asked Hennessy if she felt a responsibility, or even a burden, being Day's granddaughter. "Yes, sure. I spent 25 years not engaging at all," she conceded. But in addition to her peace activism, she continues to travel to New York City to work with the poor at Catholic Worker Maryhouse, Day's former residence. "There's this being hounded by God, having seeds planted in childhood." Hennessy is completing a 10 month jail sentence. She is currently at a facility in Manchester, NH, run by the federal Bureau of Prisons. She said that by speaking to the media for this interview, she accepted the risk that her sentence might be extended. Our conversation took place as she did her daily permitted walk.

First Jim rants about a militaristic article found in the Guardian from a Craig Mullaney who compared war to the Olympics??!!, Then Harvey updates us on the status of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 who were awaiting sentencing and prison after daring to breech the security of the Kings Bay Naval Base to protest the United States Nuclear arsenal aboard the trident submarines based there. We also hear the words of Kathy Kelly, Beth Brockman, Robert Randall, and Jackie Allen Desseau during a Festival of Peace Celebration in honor of Mark Colville who was recently sentenced.

Clare Grady started her prison sentence on February 10. She is one of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 who entered the Trident nuclear submarine base in Georgia almost three years ago on April 4, 2018, to nonviolently and symbolically disarm omnicidal nuclear weapons. We talk to her sister, Mary Anne Grady Flores, about the plowshares movement against nuclear weapons and the effort to convince public pension funds and other to divest from nuclear weapons. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.

Prison Bars Won't Stifle These Hearts This week, we're presenting three segments, all related in some way to prison. We hear an essay by an anarchist prisoner in Chile about a prison massacre on it's 10th anniversary, the voice of David Easley reporting from within a covid outbreak in an Ohio prison, and the voice of someone who's protest against nuclear weapons was leading her to incarceration. And Sean Swain. If you want to cast a vote for one of his nicknames, you can send an email to us at TheFinalStrawRadio(at ) riseup( dot) net, with 'Nickname' in the subject header until January 10th. [00:05:05]   David Easley on Outbreak at Toledo CI [00:11:03] First up, Comrade David Easley at Toledo Correctional Institution in Ohio talks about the covid-19 outbreak there, which he is still recovering from, that has knocked out one in five guards and forced the state to bring in National Guard to act as screws at the prison. The administration hasn't been proactively testing prisoners and so doesn't have data on infections besides symptomatic cases. When prisoners have tested positive, the only treatments they get are non-asprin Tylenol and cough drops, unless their health degrades to the point of getting onto a ventilator. David also talks about his inside/outside abolitionist study group he's been working with over instagram. Comrade Easley is seeking outside supporters to help run the Abolition Study Group instagram and also his personal social media so he can report to the outside world on the conditions in Toledo CI. He is also seeking lawyers in Ohio that can help sue the ODRC on behalf of prisoners for the negligence and harm that has led to so much sickness and death, inside and outside of the barbed wire. You can reach him via mail at: David Easley A306400 Toledo Correctional Institution 2001 East Central Avenue Toledo, OH 43608 and you can email him by creating an account on jpay.com and reaching out to him by his facility and number, David Easley A306400 at Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections.   Martha Hennessey of Kings Bay Plowshares 7 [00:30:46] Next up, Tali Moon from the occupied land in the PNW of the so-called US shares with us a conversation of Martha Hennessey of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, 7 white, Catholic anti-militarism activists who just went to prison for trespassing and symbolic damage to Trident nuclear missiles at a military base in Georgia. Hennessey, aged 62, is an anarchist and the grandaughter of the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, Dorothy Day. You can find out more about the Martha and others from her case at KingsBayPlowshares7.Org. You can write to Martha at: Martha Hennessy #22560-021 FCI Danbury Rt. 37 Danbury, CT 06811   Mónica Caballero on San Miguel Prison Massacre [00:56:11] Finally, you'll hear a segment from the December episode of Bad News: Angry Voices from Around The World from the A-Radio Network, magnificently produced this month by Crna Luknja in Ljublana, Slovenia. The Anarchist Assembly of Valparaiso (so-called Chile) presents a text about the 10 year anniversary of the massacre of 81 prisoners at the San Miguel Prison in Santiago de Chile written by anarchist prisoner Mónica Caballero. This was but a small portion of the audio in this months' episode.   Announcements   Land Project in Davao, Philippines Comrades from Feral Crust collective in the province of Davao in the Philippines (aka Maharlika) are requesting monetary support to purchase a minicab or small truck to help transport people and materials to their land project in the forests of Marilog in Davao where they are working on implementing ideas and practices related to permaculture, rewilding and nature restoration/conservation. The project has a fedbook page and you can hear an interview from July of 2015 that we conducted with folks from FC.   Surgeries for Activist Returning from Syria There is also a fundraiser for surgeries for Autumn, a transgender comrade from the US who volunteered in Syria, and suffered injuries during the civil war while doing solidarity work there. They are trying to raise $10k.

The Intercept’s Senior Correspondent Naomi Klein argues why Democrats should forcefully defend the integrity of votes and condemn coup-plotting for what it is, and stop from blowing a mandate they’ve won Associate Producer Elise Swain follows the sentencing hearings for peace activists, known as Kings Bay Plowshares 7, who face federal prison for nonviolent protest. Associate Producer Elise Swain follows the sentencing hearings for three of the Kings Bay Plowshares Seven peace activists. Despite a lethal pandemic ravaging prison populations, Carmen Trotta and Martha Hennessy are among those due to report to prison within the next few months for their nonviolent protest against nuclear weapons. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Happy Friday! After this episode's headline news, you'll hear a recap of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 trial, and after that, an interview with Cornell Scientist Dr. Katie Fiorella about Algal Blooms.

Jan Miyasaki touches base with Martha Hennessey, one of four members of the “Kings Bay Plowshares 7” Catholic protestors who are to be sentenced this week for their part in anti-nuclear, anti-war protests at the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base on April 4th, 2018. Martha relates her story of the “crimes”, charges, and sentences that […] The post 4 of “Kings Bay Plowshares 7” to be sentenced this week appeared first on WORT 89.9 FM.

Indigo radio interviewed Patrick O’Neill who is just about to serve a federal sentence for breaking in to the Kings Bay naval base in Georgia with his comrades to protest against the trident missiles. Trident missiles are housed on submarines at Kings Bay ready to be deployed to start a nuclear war. Listen to Patrick recollect the history of this movement and why he is willing to go to prison to protest against the Trident Missiles.

  This week we hear an interview about the Sentencing of 2 of the 7 Plow Shares activists in the United States. The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 performed an action as part of their campaign for nuclear disarmament two years ago inside the Kings Bay Trident Submarine base in southern Georgia. 3CRs Jan Barlett spoke to Brian Terrell, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non Violence.Read an article about jailed activist, Jesuit Priest Steve Kelly here 

On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, we explore how the United States is engaged in a new and potentially cataclysmic nuclear arms race. Despite the tremendous financial, environmental and human costs, this new nuclear arms race has largely gone unnoticed by the public. Since the nuclear arms race of the 1980s, members of the Plowshares movement have engaged in a bold acts of civil disobedience in an effort to break through the malaise and to protest the United States' preparations for omnicide—the death of everything. On April 4, 2018, seven Plowshares activists infiltrated the Kings Bay Naval Base in St. Mary's, Georgia, the largest nuclear submarine base in the world, containing six Trident submarines, each capable of holding 200 nuclear warheads. Some of the peace activists strung up crime scene tape and hung protest banners that read “The Ultimate Logic of Trident is Omnicide.” Others symbolically disarmed the deadly arsenal by pouring their own blood around the base and using hammers to beat full-scale replicas of the Trident missiles, a reference to a verse in the book of Isaiah that calls on nations to “beat swords into plowshares." In this week's episode, host Jonathan Michels talks with one of the members of the Kings Bay Plowshares Seven, Patrick O'Neill, about the Plowshares action and its impact on the movement to abolish nuclear weapons. O'Neill is a longtime peace and anti-racist activist and a co-founder of the Fr. Charlie Mulholland Catholic Worker House in Garner, North Carolina. For a transcription of this episode, please click here. Show notes: Kings Bay Plowshares 7 website for more information about the action and the trial “The New Nuclear Threat” by Jessica T. Matthews “The Pope and Catholic Radicals Come Together Against Nuclear Weapons” by Paul Elie

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 – the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. These Catholic Peace Activists performed a peaceful action protesting the nuclear weapons aboard Trident nuclear submarines at the Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia, 38 miles from Jacksonville, Florida. They were arrested, tried, and found guilty on three felony counts and one misdemeanor. Now, nearly two years after the action took place, they are still awaiting sentencing.We talk with Martha Hennessey and Patrick O’Neill (71) about the Plowshares Movement, their religiously-based dedication to peace, how the Kings Bay action was planned and executed, and what happened the night they did it — April 4, 2018, the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death. Then we learn what has happened to them since the trial.On October 24, 2018, all seven were found guilty of three felony charges and one misdemeanor, which could lead to 20 or more years of imprisonment for each of them. Sentencing has been delayed almost two full years because, according to them, it’s an extension of the cruelty with which the government has treated them, and punishment that cannot be claimed as “time served” once they are sentenced.NOTE: I’m not often moved to tears by my Nuclear Hotseat interviews, but this one really got to me.WHAT YOU CAN DO: The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 request the following actions be taken by listeners to Nuclear Hotseat: Sign the petition asking for leniency from the court Write a letter to Judge Lisa Godbey Wood, requesting leniency for the protestors. Visit the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 website to keep informed about the case and learn further actions you can take. Copy n paste this link to contribute to Nuclear Hotseat:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=YqfDrrC-oM6aeWP9rjZ9Lo10d3TXedRtkGPm_Pytlg4MwXfiuut61xlfagWV7Gg8EteDym&country.x=US&locale.x=USwww.nuclearhotseat.com

Catholic peace activists facing prison for anti-nuclear weapons, anti-war action against Trident submarines and the nuclear triad. INTERVIEW with 2 of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7: Patrick O'Neill, Martha Hennessey.

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...

Catholic peace activists facing prison for anti-nuclear weapons, anti-war action against Trident submarines and the nuclear triad. INTERVIEW with 2 of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7: Patrick O'Neill, Martha Hennessey.

Catholic peace activists facing prison for anti-nuclear weapons, anti-war action against Trident submarines and the nuclear triad. INTERVIEW with 2 of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7: Patrick O'Neill, Martha Hennessey.

Hosting and producing Bar Crawl Radio podcasts over the last two and a half years has been a wonderful ride with my favorite person, best pal, lovely and loving wife and co-host -- Rebecca McKean. We have learned over the 75+ episodes of Bar Crawl Radio how to work together to develop conversations. Counting it up we have podcast --in 8 countriesin 23 different barsconversations with 117 interesting peopleon 1 glacierWe've had the privilege to talk with politicians and bartenders, peace activists and gun proponents, novelists, journalists, and poets, podcasters, scientists, farmers, musicians, sculptors, photographers and artists, farmers and environmentalists, a Mexican taco shop owner, community leaders, beer brewers, mead makers and beer drinkers, bar owners and tenders, members of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 who are going to prison for trespassing on the US Trident Nuclear Missile Base in Georgia, and one man who builds houses in third world countries.It has been quite a ride. This episode brings together some of our favorites from the BCR archives. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In some ways, breaking onto a nuclear submarine base was just the beginning of their witness. After their arrest, the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 faced another formidable challenge: the United States justice system. In this third and final episode, we hear the Plowshares activists explain why trial and sacrifice have always been essential to their movement. For one activist, sacrifice included spending her 79th birthday in a jail cell.

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.

We’ve all heard Jesus’ command to “love your enemy.” But can you love your enemies if you don’t know who they are? On the podcast “Know Your Enemy,” hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell—self-described Bernie Bros—try to understand their political rivals on the right’s own terms, providing “a leftist’s guide to the conservative movement.” We sat down with Matt, an associate editor at the Catholic magazine Commonweal, to talk about his own political conversion (he was a conservative well into his 20s), what the left can learn from the conservative movement and how the Trump era is reshaping Catholic politics. In Signs of the Times, we discuss the decision of a South Carolina priest to deny Communion to former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Marco Rubio’s challenge to Republicans to take up the cause of working people and to build a “common good capitalism.” Plus, seven anti-nuclear activists are convicted for their acts of civil disobedience and a church in Arizona has its first sensory-friendly Mass for people with disabilities. Tell us what you think about the episode on our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter and help other listeners find Jesuitical by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts. Please consider supporting the show by becoming a member of our Patreon community. Patrons get access to an exclusive newsletter written by one of your hosts each week! Links from the show Cardinal Dolan: I would not have denied Joe Biden Communion Explainer: When can someone be denied the Eucharist? Marco Rubio calls for an ‘economics of the common good’ Catholic peace activists Kings Bay Plowshares 7 convicted Chandler Catholic church to host first sensory-friendly Mass What’s on tap? Bulliet Bourbon

The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 [KBP7] have been found guilty by a Federal Grand Jury in Brunswick, Georgia this month for trespassing and destroying property on the Trident Submarine Naval Base in St Marys. The conversation with defendants Martha Hennessy and Carmen Trotta took place in the library of the Catholic Worker's Maryhouse in the Bowery section of Manhattan. They were joined by Anthony Donovan, a member of Witness Against Torture, who attended the four day trial. In the end, the KBP7 defendants were not allowed to make their strong case against nuclear armament -- due to what Carmen described as a "controlled" courtroom by Judge Lisa Godbey Wood.See more on what happened in the court room ...Video of statements made after the verdict ... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

CODEPINK's Paki Wieland hosts and talks with CODEPINK's Ariel Gold about her recent trip to Iran life for Iranians under U.S. sanctions with Jamal Abdi, National Iranian American Council. Next we discuss the outcome of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Trial with Sam Husseini, Institute for Policy Accuracy.

Ellen analyzes two concurrent events of the past week: the throwing of the “Pachamama" statues into the Tiber River in Rome, and the trial of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 in Brunswick, Georgia. What do these two events have in common? How are they different? And why are most Catholics likely to be interested in (or informed about) only one or the other?0:00 Background of the two events4:21 Similarities25:44 Differences45:08 A few thought experiments---the demonic---Maccabees---theft---occasions of sin52:30 Saint Boniface57:33 Saint Martin of Tours1:03:07 Tertullian's "On Idols"1:08:54 Extortion, Modernism, SalvationFind us at: www.catholicsagainstmilitarism.comPodcast/RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171Also mentioned on the podcast: Kings Bay Plowshares 7www.kingsbayplowshares7.org"Pachamama" videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoB_gjuZgf8&t=2sThe Catholic Peace Tradition by Ronald Mustohttps://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Peace-Tradition-Ronald-Musto/dp/0934977135The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberghttps://www.amazon.com/The-Doomsday-Machine/dp/B077NPHRKR/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+doomsday+machine&qid=1572365645&s=books&sr=1-1"On Idols," by Tertullianhttp://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0302.htm

Source: www.democracynow.org “You Won't Take Down Lies or You Will?”: AOC Grills Facebook's Zuckerberg on Lies in Political Ads; Rashida Tlaib to Mark Zuckerberg: Why Haven't You Stopped Hate Groups From Organizing on Facebook?; “State of Emergency”: Special Report on California's Criminalization of Growing Homeless Encampments; Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Found Found Guilty of Conspiracy at Naval Base Housing Nuclear Arsenal.   The post “You Won't Take Down Lies or You Will?”: AOC Grills Facebook's Zuckerberg on Lies in Political Ads appeared first on KPFA.

A new report on FBI surveillance details how nearly every major social movement of the past decade -- including Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter-- has been targeted by the FBI. And while this week's Washington drama included Republicans bumrushing Trump's impeachment hearing, far more dramatic testimony was heard about fossil fuel giants like Exxon knowing and lying for decades about climate change.  Headlines: on Syria; Impeachment; Baby Foods Test Positive for Heavy Metals; Catholic activists opposed to nuclear weapons known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 found guilty; Advocates for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange are fighting against his extradition from the UK; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is grilled by lawmakers; New book on untold history of music; Don't Mute DC upcoming events.   If you enjoy our grassroots news show, which we provide free online, on podcast and on Pacifica stations and affiliates, please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on this website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. You can also give a one-time donation on PayPal. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Thank you! Post image: Cover art by Autumn for the report "Still Spying on Dissent: The Enduring Problem of FBI First Amendment Abuse" published at RightsandDissent.org

Legendary peace activist Liz McAlister has spent her entire life resisting U.S. war. The 79-year-old grandmother of six, who is on trial with her Kings Bay Plowshares co-defendants, explains why she and her friends snuck onto a U.S. nuclear base to deliver an indictment of the U.S. government. Rudy Giuliani has emerged as Donald Trump’s dollar store Roy Cohn and he has put himself right in the center of the impeachment inquiry. Journalist Johnny Dwyer, author of “The Districts,” chronicles Giuliani’s time as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, Giuliani’s connections to shady characters from a host of countries and why he may never face indictment. Journalist Emily Guendelsberger went undercover working at Amazon, McDonald’s and Convergys. She discusses her experience in the dystopic world of low wage work and her new book “On the Clock, What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane.”

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/

Seven Catholic peace activists are going on trial in Georgia today for breaking into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base on April 4, 2018. The activists, who are known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, face up to 25 years in prison if convicted. The activists entered the base armed with just hammers, crime scene tape, baby bottles containing their own blood and an indictment charging the U.S. government with crimes against peace. Over the past four decades activists in the Plowshares movement have taken part in about 100 similar actions at nuclear arms facilities, beginning in 1980 at the General Electric nuclear missile plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. We recently spoke to Catholic nun Liz McAlister, who goes on trial today with her co-defendants Father Stephen Kelly, Mark Colville, Patrick O'Neill, Carmen Trotta, Clare Grady and Martha Hennessy, who is the granddaughter of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement. They all have been charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor. The post Kings Bay Plowshares 7: Trial Begins for Liz McAlister & Others for Breaking Into Nuke Sub Base appeared first on KPFA.

We have talked with the peace activists of the Catholic Worker movement on several BCR episodes [#29 & #46 with bonus material] and knew that the seven men and women who broke into the U.S. Kings Bay Naval Base at St. Marys, Georgia would be in court in Brunswick in mid-August. This submarine base is where the U.S. military stores its Trident nuclear missiles. We wanted to talk with four of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, who were under house arrest and on bail, about the hearing and how they were doing. That week was also the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and there were protests going on outside the Kings Bay Naval Base. So, while Becky and I sat at her brother's dining room table in Santa Maria, California, we called south Georgia.We first talked with Kathy Kelly, Brian Terrell, and Anthony Donovan while they were fasting and holding a vigil outside the gates of the Kings Bay Naval Base.The next day we spoke with four of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. The day before they had argued in the Federal Court in Brunswick Georgia that the case against them be dropped based on RFRA – the Religious Freedom Restoration Act – which requires the government to prove a compelling state interest if it restricts a person’s free exercise of religious beliefs – a defense successfully used by the Religious Right. We talked with Carmen Trotta, Martha Hennessy, Clare Grady, and Patrick O’Neill.Here are some resources that were mentioned during our conversations:Anthony Donovan recommended -- "Warheads to Windmills: How to Pay for a Green New Deal." A report that relates spending on nuclear warheads to ending the dangers of Global Warming.The Doomsday Machine. by Daniel Ellsberg (2017).No Immediate Danger? : Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth. by Rosalie Bertell (2006).Planet Earth The Latest Weapon of War: A Critical Study into the Military and the Environment. By Rosalie Bertell (2000)Nuclear Issues Study Group -- "Dismantling the Nuclear Beast". nukewatchinfo.orgTreaty for the Prevention of Nuclear Weapons ICAN -- International Campaign to Abolition Nuclear Weapons See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week the Beyond Borders crew starts with our regional round-up discussing news from around the Caribbean and Latin America.  While technical difficulties prevented our interview on Venezuela, we discuss the issue of US imperialism in Latin America with a focus on the School of the Americas located at Fort Benning in Georgia.  We also learn that the School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch) will return to Georgia this November to call for tech closure of the SOA.   In the second hour we check in with Uche Onwa who spent about 3 months in detention at the Atlanta City Detention Center (ACDC) after being detained on his way to a human rights conference dedicated to supporting those in the LGBTQ community.  Uche shares his previous advocacy work in Nigeria, his experiences in detention in the US, and his role in pushing the City of Atlanta to end their detention agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).   Uche also discusses his new leadership role at the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP).  Learn more at: http://www.qdep.org   Finally we wrap up the program with a discussion on resistance to nuclear weapons organized by seven Kings Bay Plowshares activists in St. Mary's, Georgia.  The activists share their philosophy, dedication to non-violent civil disobedience, and even treat listeners to a celebration of their values in song.  Learn more at: https://www.kingsbayplowshares7.org

Mark Colville is one of the seven Kings Bay Plowshares activists. We recorded this interview on December 11th 2018, and Mark planned to turn himself in hours later at the Glynn County Jail in Brunswick, Georgia. Learn more: http://kingsbayplowshares7.org https://www.facebook.com/Kingsbayplowshares http://www.nukeresister.org