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Invitation to Faith and Resistance Retreat
August 5-9, 2009

Road to No War: A nonviolent walk for 5 days to 13 military sites in Hampton Roads, Virginia
photos and description / music video (2.5 minutes--a must see!)

Prison life for a Swedish Plowshares activist

Frida Berrigan talks at Peace Action Luncheon, May 30, 2009

Liz McAlister speaks at Christian Peace Witness for Iraq Service
21 arrested at White House praying and witnessing for the end of US war and occupation in Iraq (images)

Holy Week Faith and Resistance Retreat 2009

images
reflection
leaflet
video

 

Peter DeMott Presente!

Jan 6, 1947 -
Feb 19, 2009

 

(more)

Plowshares Disarmament Action March 22, 2009 in Sweden

Video short on compost toilet
Leaving less of a footprint on the earth


Spring ALC retreat: Friday May 8-Sunday May 10
Mariandale Retreat House, Ossining, NY

program ideas welcome (claretgrady@yahoo.com)

Nuclear Weapons Abolition:  Join the Urgent Struggle
A Reflection by Ardeth Platte, OP and Carol Gilbert, OP
Original Child Bomb
Meditations on the Nuclear Age

Map of US Military Bases
EDO Weapons used by Israeli Air Force against the people in Gaza disarmed by 6 antiwar activists in Brighten,
England. The six entered the weapons factory in the early hours of the morning...(more)
Video

Feast of the Holy Innocents Retreat
Washington, DC
Sun, Dec. 28, 6 pm to Tues, Dec 30.
Prayer, Speakers, Witness, Reflection, Friendship
Pictures, reflection
(thanks to Bill Offenlock for pictures)

video of action at Israeli Embassy
(Danny Burns made the video)

Our Conviction Never Ends
Carol, Ardeth and Jackie reflect on Sacred Earth and Space Plowshares

Photo Albums (including The Heartland Speaks in Salina, Kansas)
Various Video Clips

Plowshares Disarmament Action in Sweden:
Weapons used by US army disarmed
October 16, 2008 (more)
update March 2009

In contrast, we believe that the US is the world's number one terrorist.(more)

Sr. Carol Gilbert,OP and Sr. Ardeth Platte, OP, who live at Jonah House, labeled "terrorists" by Maryland State Police and Homeland Security

news articles on websites and papers around world from the Phillipines to Egypt
(more)

Sr. Ardeth Platte, Bishop Tom Gumbleton, Sr. Carol Gilbert at Jonah House

Catonsville 9 Activist John Hogan Dies in Hamdon Connecticut

Keep Space for Peace
vigil at Northrop Grumman,
Maryland-
photo album
and info
.

Southern Life Community Retreat
visits Naval Air Station Oceana:
Four Hold Banners on top of B-52 Plane
12 arrested


Pictures and story
Report of Steve Baggarly

 

Baltimore Peace Flotilla Protests USS Sterett Commissioning

August 9, 2008

(photo gallery and comments )

White House August 9, 2008
Faith and Resistance Retreat Washington, DC
August 7, 2008 Baltimore
(more pictures)
Leaflet
Video
photo gallery and comments
19 activists board guided missile destroyer USS Sterett and hold banners: Disarm the Sterett: Love your Enemies
Japanese Buddhist Nun, Sr. Ichi Kawa, joins the "Faith and Resistance Retreat" for the commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
At the Pentagon, on August 6, Sr. Ichi led the procession into the Pentagon and drummed and chanted throughout the vigil and then led the recession.
At the Sterett, she and others walked down Key Highway to the fence surrounding the pier at whcih the Sterett is moored and drummed and chanted, with others from the community, throughout the 2 hour witness.

The Department of Extinction

 

SAAB Microwave Becoming2 Ploughshares in Sweeden

Update concerning Kathy Boylan's prayers for peace!

Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of the Catonsville 9
photo gallery

Interview with Dominican Sisters Carol Gilbert and Ardeth Platte
Chicago Public Radio-Worldview with Jerome McDonnell
Grand Rapids Dominicans Recognized for Work
on Nuclear Disarmament

Anzac Ploughshares deflated one of Waihopai spy base's domes with sickles in New Zealand.
Sam Land, Adrian Leason, and Dominican Friar Peter Murnane

 

Tom Lewis
went home to God
April 4, 2008

Father
Artist
Activist
Beloved Friend

his gentleness was his strength

Services
for Tom

Tom Lewis-An Artist/Activist  
By Scott Schaeffer-Duffy
Xaverian World
article on Tom Lewis
by Br. Paul Feeney
photo album
leave your reflections


News Concerning Carol Gilbert and Ardeth Platte who are giving talks around the country

 
Disarmament and the New Creation
Article written by Sisters Carol, Ardeth and Jackie for the Dominican Alliance Newsletter
in preparation for a corporate stance for the disarmament of nuclear weapons
Check out No NucleArms for information on nuclear weapons, including international law, history, research, teaching aids and more!.
The 2008 Frozen River Film Festival JURY'S CHOICE AWARD
Conviction
January 27, 2008
Dominican Sisters Speak
Dominican Sisters of
Grand Rapids
CORPORATE STANCE
for nuclear disarmament
Carol Gilbert, Ardeth Platte
Advocate for Nuclear
Disarmament at NGOs in NY
Make Peace an Election Year Issue:
Question the Candidates on Nuclear Weapons


Ardeth Platte, OP:
Canner Extrodinaire
Praying Mantis in Garden
Bible Camp
Aug 07
My Father, the Activist

Easy link to all actions on this site

Comment about nonviolence and resistance and Read Comments of others

Jonah House Compost Toilet
Bishop Tom Gumbleton Visits
Sheep Shearing April 2007

Llamas Arrive For Advent '04

Winter Scenes at Jonah House
Summer Scenes at Jonah House
Pictures of the House and Grounds

Who is the world's #1 Terrorist?
Brothers and Sisters in the Military: "Refuse to Fight! Refuse to Kill!"
  (more)


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