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The Milwaukee Fourteen: A Burning Protest against the Vietnam War October 17, 2018

Wisconsin Magazine of History / Winter 2017 By Tim Thering On September 24, 1968, fourteen religiously motivated, anti-Vietnam war activists removed, or in their words, “liberated,” ten thousand draft records from the Milwaukee Selective Service office. The protesters, including five Catholic priests, hauled the draft files to a square in the middle of a busy Milwaukee […]

The Milwaukee 14: action, trial, prison October 16, 2018

The following pages are a draft of three chapters in an autobiography I’ve been writing. It’s a work-in-progress. >> The Milwaukee Fourteen Dan Berrigan had just been released from prison on bail and Jim Douglass, a co-founder of the Catholic Peace Fellowship, was in town. We decided to visit Dan at a Jesuit parish in […]

The Milwaukee Fourteen: striking a match September 26, 2018

[This is the draft text for a chapter in the autobiography I’m writing. Comments and corrections would be helpful to me.] Daniel Berrigan had just been released from prison on bail and theologian Jim Douglass, a co-founder of the Catholic Peace Fellowship, was in town. We decided to visit Dan at the Jesuit parish in […]

Apocalypse Soon? a Reflection on the Anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 10, 2018

by Jim Forest In 1951, the year I turned ten, one didn’t have to be a grown-up to be aware that radioactive particles were in the air. Invisible cancer-causing debris was being carried by the winds from the deserts of Nevada to the far corners of the Earth, and before long was being mixed with […]