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      How Do You Tell the Kids that Grandma is in Jail for Resisting Nuclear Weapons?

      How Do You Tell the Kids that Grandma is in Jail for Resisting Nuclear Weapons?

      "Our grandma is in jail," Madeline tells a woman wrestling a shopping cart at Target.

      "She went over a war fence and tried to make peace," Seamus adds helpfully. "They arrested her, and she is in jail now."

      "Where?" the woman asks, looking from them to me in disbelief and maybe pity.

      "We don't remember," the kids say, suddenly done with their story and ready to make passionate pleas for the colorful items in the dollar section over the woman's shoulder.

      Frida Berrigan
      Apr 07, 2018

      "Our grandma is in jail," Madeline tells a woman wrestling a shopping cart at Target.

      "She went over a war fence and tried to make peace," Seamus adds helpfully. "They arrested her, and she is in jail now."

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      Seven Peace Activists Arrested After Entering Nuclear Submarine Base in Georgia

      Seven Peace Activists Arrested After Entering Nuclear Submarine Base in Georgia

      Citing anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, activists say they "went to make real the prophet Isaiah's command: 'beat swords into plowshares.'"

      Jon Queally
      Apr 05, 2018

      Citing the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination this week, seven peace activists were arrested on Thursday morning after they made their way overnight onto the U.S. Naval Base in Kings Bay, Georgia where some of the nation's nuclear-armed submarines are stationed.

      According to a post by the group on Facebook, the seven people involved in the action and subsequently detained by authorities were: Elizabeth McAlister, 78, of Jonah House, Baltimore; Steve Kelly, S. J., 69, of California; Carmen Trotta, 55, a NY Catholic Worker; Clare Grady, 59, of Ithaca, NY Catholic Worker; Martha Hennessy, 62, of NY Catholic Worker; Mark Coleville, 55, of Amistad Catholic Worker in New Haven, CT; and Patrick O'Neil, 61, of Fr. Charlie Mulholland Catholic Worker in Garner, NC.

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      'Do Kids Die, Mom?: Parenting in a World on Fire

      'Do Kids Die, Mom?: Parenting in a World on Fire

      Facing the future with trepidation during the Age of Trump

      Frida Berrigan
      Jan 08, 2018

      As a mother and an activist, here's what I've concluded as 2018 begins: it's getting harder and harder to think about the future -- at least in that soaring Whitney Houston fashion. You know the song: "I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way..." These days, doesn't it sound quaint and of another age?

      The truth is I get breathless and sweaty thinking about what life will be like for my kids -- three-year-old Madeline, five-year-old Seamus, and 11-year-old Rosena. I can't stop thinking about it either. I can't stop thinking that they won't be guaranteed clean air or clean water, that they won't have a real healthcare system to support them in bad times, even if they pay through the nose in super high taxes. They may not have functional infrastructure, even if President Trump succeeds in building a yuge gilded wall on our southern border (and who knows where else). The social safety net -- Medicare, Medicaid, and state assistance of various sorts -- could be long gone and the sorts of nonprofit groups that try to fill all breaches a thing of the past. If they lose their jobs or get sick or are injured, what in the world will they have to fall back on, or will they even have jobs to begin with?

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