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April 5, 2018

Seven Plowshares Activists Arrested Protesting at U.S. Nuclear Sub Base
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Seven Catholic Plowshares activists were arrested early this morning
while staging a protest inside the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in
Georgia-the largest nuclear submarine base in the world. The activists
entered the base on Wednesday night on the 50th anniversary of Martin
Luther King's assassination. They were armed with just hammers, crime
tape and baby bottles containing their own blood. The activists said
they were following the prophet Isaiah's command to "beat swords into
plowshares." They hung banners inside the base reading "Nuclear weapons:
illegal–immoral." They were also carrying a statement that quoted
Martin Luther King describing the United States as "the greatest
purveyor of violence in the world." Among those arrested were the
Catholic priest Steve Kelly; Martha Hennessy, the granddaughter of
Dorothy Day; Carmen Trotta of New York Catholic Worker; Clare Grady of
Ithaca Catholic Worker; and Elizabeth Mc Alister, who co-founded Jonah
House in Baltimore with her late husband Phil Berrigan.


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