Video by RedJaDe

Daniel Berrigan Spoke in Dublin, Ireland on August 14th 2002

Also speaking:

Ciaron O'Reilly (Dublin Catholic Worker)
 http://www.catholicworker.org

and writer/poet John Maguire (author of Defending Peace: Ireland's Role in a Changing Europe)

 http://library.ucc.ie/search/aMaguire%2C+John/amaguire+john/-5,-1,0,B/frameset&FF=amaguire+john&2,,2



More info about Daniel Berrigan
(apologies for the misspelling on the video!)
 http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi\?id=9155

For going on half a century Philip and Daniel Berrigan have been a prophetic thorn in the side of political, military and church elites in the United States. Their nonviolent militant insistence on the sanctity of human life and the criminality of modern warfare has been non-negotiable.

From their 1968 burning of draft cards through their numerous court scenes and prison sentences the Berrigans have spoken truth to power. In the early 1970's, FBI Godfather J.Edgar Hoover obssessed with these troublesome priests, and their opposition to the Vietnam War, conjured a charge of "conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger". A plan to perform a citizens arrest on Henry Kissinger had been distorted and spun by the Feds into a criminal indictment. Today, Henry Kissinger dodges police warrants in South America and Europe related to his role in massacres in Indo-China and Chile. As always, the Berrigan's only crime has been to be ahead of their time.

In the 1980's, the Berrigans and friends grounded hopes, dreams and demands of nuclear disarmament by entering a General Electric factory in Pennsylvania and taking household hammers to nuclear weapons components. They had embodied the Old Tetsament prophecy of Isaiah to "beat swords into ploughshares" initiating a direct disarmament movement that continues to decommsison all sorts of hi tech killing machines - B52 Bombers, Trident Submarines, Hawk Fighters et.al. In some cases juries have celebrated and acquitted the "ploughshares communities", in others the Berrigans and friends have been sent to jail for long sentences. The Berrigans have pioneered a style of assertive nonviolence that engages the hi tech overkill/low intensity conflict manner of waging America's wars post-Vietnam.

more at
 http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi\?id=9155