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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.

Articles by this author

 
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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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After all, the future doesn’t belong to him or to me. It belongs to my kids and your kids and all the generations to follow. (Photo: Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

Protecting the Children on a Trumpian Planet

Trumping the future would mean no future at all for my three kids

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Nuclear Weapons Ruined My Life, and I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way

As someone deeply embedded in a life of anti-nuclear resistance, I know the only way to get rid of these weapons is to never stop thinking about them

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“Some two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming and are fated to spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts.” (Photo: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)

A Mother Swept Away by Climate Change

Parenting the climate-change generation or will they parent us?

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There are only seven or eight thousand cheetahs left on Earth. Once upon a time (and not so long ago) there must have been 100,000. (Photo: Jon Newman/flickr)

The Cheetah in Us All

A mother thinks about the inheritance of children

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