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May 31, 2018

Theology Student Studying Daniel Berrigan's Life Arrested for Protesting White Supremacist in Charlottesville
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In Charlottesville, more than 400 theologians, ethicists and religion
scholars have asked the University of Virginia to drop charges against a
theology student who was arrested for refusing to leave an office in the
school's law library where white supremacist Jason Kessler was doing
research. Kessler organized last year's deadly neo-Nazi rally in
Charlottesville. The student, Eric Martin, defended his act of
nonviolent civil disobedience. He said, "It was done with a rosary in my
pocket. This is what it is for me to be a Christian, to resist things
that are evil. White supremacy is evil." Martin is a graduate student at
Fordham University, where he is writing his dissertation on Father
Daniel Berrigan.


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