"A million prison walls can’t protect us, because the real dangers—militarism, greed, economic inequality, fascism, police brutality—lie outside, not inside, prison walls.” #PhilipBerrigan #PrayForAmerica
The Catonville Nine anti-war activists, including Philip Berrigan, in the Wilkens police station, Catonsville, Maryland, on May 17, 1968, photographed by Herald Argus newspaper reporter Jean Walsh soon after their arrest. By Jean Walsh - Friends of the Catonsville Library, Baltimore County Public Library, Catonsville, Maryland. Image from Fire and Faith: The Catonsville Nine File, DigitalMaryland.org, Enoch Pratt Free Library/State Library Resource Center, http://c9.digitalmaryland.org/artifact.php?ID=CLCN008&VW=S, accessed 17 June 2020., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91227313
Today in #LaborHistory 10/27/1967: Catholic priest #PhilipBerrigan & others occupied Baltimore draft office & poured blood on records to protest #VietnamWar. In 1973, Berrigan was excommunicated for marrying a nun. For 11 of 29 years they were married, he was in #prison for #CivilDisobedience
#January12 #Peace #Love #Art #Activism #MarcusGarvey arrested 1922, #RaymondGunn lynched 1931, #BerryGordyJr. founded #MotownRecords 1959, #CBS color TV 1950, #SamuelRoth guilty, #OpperationChopper #VietnamWar 1962, Rev #PhilipBerrigan indicted 1971, woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/01/12/j...