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US Roman Catholic priests. The brothers, opponents of the Vietnam War, broke into the draft-records offices at Catonsville, Maryland, to burn the files with napalm. They were sentenced in 1968 to three and six years' imprisonment respectively, but went underground. Subsequently Philip Berrigan was tried with others in 1972 for allegedly conspiring to kidnap President Nixon's adviser Henry Kissinger and blow up government offices in Washington, DC; he was then sentenced to two years' imprisonment.



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The only way to get their names and stories into the court was to bring them there ourselves," said WAT activist Frida Berrigan, one of 89 arrested by U.
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It's no surprise then that she calls getting arrested twice in one day with legendary peace activist Father Daniel Berrigan "a spiritual journey of the soul.
Life preserver by Rondeau, Mark E. / U.S. Catholic
It is those admirers of Zinn who will enjoy A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, a compilation of columns and commentaries, many previously published, on a variety of topics ranging from tributes to Eugene Debs and Philip Berrigan to perspectives on patriotism, nationalism, and 9/11.
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress by Niose, David A. / The Humanist
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