When nine Catholic activists seized and burned draft files on May 17, 1968, they committed an act of conscience that continues to transform lives and inspire...
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Catholic radicals burned hundreds of draft cards with homemade napalm in 1968. Here's what modern activists can learn from them.
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The Catonsville Nine's protest is one of the most significant acts of war resistance in our nation's history, and it happened just down the...
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A group of Catholic activists stood around a small fire, praying and singing. They had gone into the local draft board office and taken 378 draft records.
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Unwilling to live with the horror of burning children a consequence of U S napalm bombings in Vietnam a group of Catholic peace activists decided to make a...
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The small group of marchers made their way down the cracked sidewalks of West Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, singing “Let...
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A former Maryknoll priest-turned-actvist, he burned hundreds of draft records to protest the Vietnam War.
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On May 17, 1968, two priests and seven Catholic activists set fire to Catonsville draft records, sparking a national wave of Vietnam War resistance.
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In “The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era,'' Shawn Francis Peters presents a comprehensive account of a...
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Nine Catholic Worker and anti-war activists made history, and inspired a wave of popular resistance, for their stance against the Vietnam War.
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