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Frida Berrigan

Frida Berrigan

Frida Berrigan, a columnist for WagingNonviolence.org, serves on the board of the War Resisters League and organizes with Witness Against Torture. She is the daughter of Plowshares activists Liz McAllister and the late Philip Berrigan and author of "It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood", a memoir of her childhood as their daughter and her adult life as an activist and a mother.

Articles by this author

 
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This Is My Song for a Suffering, Imperfect Nation I Still Love

Here is what reminds me that the small bits of joy and hope that gardens and the gift economy give me is a seed that, with time, nurturing, and hard work, could grow into a more just and equitable future for us all.

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A Failing and Floundering School System While the US Pumps the Pentagon With Funding

A pandemic year of hope, trauma, and tragedy—up close and personal.

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A Consumer-Free Christmas

I’m taking an eco-holiday from it all (and so are my kids).

Frida Berrigan ·

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What To Do When Your Neighbors Are World-Ending Nuclear Submarines

Swirling around those submarines are descriptions citing "strategy" and "capability." But don't be fooled: they'll be potential world killers.

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Seven months in, I’m finally realizing what so many marginalized people have always known: we’re on our own. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Pandemic Living

The long haul.

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Phil Berrigan in front of a "wreckage of war" die-in at the River Entrance.

After 4 Decades of Plowshares Actions, It’s Nuclear Warfare that Should Be on Trial — Not Activists

Forty years ago, the Plowshares Eight sparked a movement of nuclear disarmers that continues to take responsibility for weapons of mass destruction.

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Each of those 394 votes felt hard won indeed. (Photo: Facebook)

Sometimes We Can Make Our Own Hope

Running for office in the age of Donald Trump and climate change.

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