Please SUPPORT Independent Media, No Corp $ here! https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ZVN55T42MWV42 May 17th, 1968 Fr. Berrigan his brother Phil and 7 others took 378 draft files from the draft board in Catonsville, MD. and in the parking lot of the draft board office they lit the draft files on fire using homemade Napalm to protest the Vietnam War. They were known as the Catonsville Nine, a documentary called Hit & Stay, A History of Faith and Resistance. Fr. Daniel Berrigan wrote, of the Catonsville incident: “Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children…” The whole of his statement is in The Trial of the Catonsville Nine. The Catonsville Nine were tried in federal court October 5–9, 1968. The lead defense attorney was counterculture legal icon William Kunstler. They were found guilty of destruction of U.S. property, destruction of Selective Service files, and interference with the Selective Service Act of 1967.[4] They were also sentenced to a total of 18 years’ jail time and a fine of $22,000. Several of the nine—Mary Moylan, Phil Berrigan, Dan Berrigan and George Mische—went “underground” when it came time to show up for prison—in other words, the FBI had to try to find them. Father Dan Berrigan caused considerable embarrassment to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by popping up and giving sermons and then fading back into the “underground”.-Wikipedia Fr. Berrigan was the first Catholic priest to make to the FBI’s most wanted list. With his brother Phil, he inspired the Anti War and Anti Draft movement of the late 1960’s. Dan Berrigan said he’s “been arrested more times than he can remember but fewer times than he should have.” Fr. Daniel Berrigan, his brother Phil, and 6 others broke into the GE Missile plant in King of Prussia, PA. which launched their Plowshares movement. A film titled IN THE KING OF PRUSSIA: THE TRIAL OF THE PLOWSHARES 8 takes us back to 1982 with Emile de Antonio’s portrayal of the Plowshares 8 civic disobedience at General Electric’s nuclear weapons plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. The group included Molly Rush, co-founder of the Merton Center. Can be seen on youtube, https://youtu.be/kUph8GWFupE Berrigan was a poet, pacifist, educator, social activist, playwright and lifelong resister to what he called “American military imperialism.” Fr Berrigan burning draft papers for the Vietnam war in 1968 which made national headlines. Fr Berrigan traveled to North Vietnam with historian Howard Zinn to bring home 3 U.S. prisoners of war depicted in a documentary Holy Outlaw where they were in Vietnamese shelters while being bombed by U. S. jets. He told the story saying there were 3 children in the shelter, one older child was feeding rice to a younger child which inspired Daniel Berrigan to write a poem called Children in the Shelter. Imagine; three of them. As though survival were a rat’s word, and a rat’s death waited there at the end and I must have in the century’s boneyard heft of flesh and bone in my arms I picked up the littlest a boy, his face breaded with rice (his sister calmly feeding him as we climbed down) In my arms fathered in a moment’s grace, the messiah of all my tears. I bore, reborn a Hiroshima child from hell. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rswkL5F5pZk

About Justice League NYC: Justice League NYC is an initiative of The Gathering for Justice is a social justice organization founded by Harry Belafonte in 2005. Led since 2010 by Executive Director Carmen Perez, The Gathering utilizes Kingian nonviolence as a social application for change and civic engagement. Justice League NYC is a task force of juvenile and criminal justice experts, advocates, artists and formerly incarcerated individuals. Our work includes leading policy initiatives for police accountability; bringing in individuals and groups from diverse communities to organize as a ‘family coalition’ in order to capitalize on our combined power and build the agenda for sustained black and brown liberation; being the catalyst for the re-introduction of federal legislation to end racial profiling and stop the militarization of law enforcement; engaging a serious and sustained effort for Raise the Age in NY State; and creating a blueprint – in the form of a substantive list of demands – for criminal justice redress and accountability for NY City and State. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyQfIcNH2P0