Tag Archives: Plowshares
A Clown A Hammer A Bomb… and Father Carl
So I’ve been thinking about the Plowshares movement a great deal over the past few days. As I reported last week, the Tennessee Jury on the Transform Now Plowshares case found three peace activists (Michael Walli, Greg Boertje and Sister Megan Rice) guilty. They not only found them guilty of vandalism (which was expected, and […]
Who is my neighbor?
Originally posted on Transform Now Plowshares:
Dear friends, First, the facts. Greg, Megan, and Michael were found guilty today of both counts brought against them — sabotage and depredation of government property — and they were remanded from the courtroom as we sang them rounds of “Rejoice in the Lord Always,” and “Vine and Fig…
Sister Megan Rice of the Transform Now Plowshares
Last Summer, three peace activists were able to break into the Y12 nuclear production facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Once inside, they hammered on the cornerstone of the new High Energy Uranium Manufacturing Factory (used for producing fuel for weapons). The group is called the Transform Now Plowshares, a movement that takes its inspiration from […]
Sister Anne Montgomery Presente
This is in prayer for Sister Anne Montgomery, who passed earlier this week. I had met Sister Anne numerous times when I was working on my plays about the Plowshares movement. She was a tiny, frail woman who had the heart of a lion. And her friends in the Plowshares movement lionized her. Anne Montgomery […]
We interrupt this blog… REVIEWS ARE IN!
Reviews of our performances at the Brooklyn Peace Fair earlier this year. We performed the plays A CLOWN, A HAMMER, A BOMB, AND GOD and A GOOD DAY 2 PIE. An excerpt (SPOILER ALERT): …playwright and performer Dan Kinch performing his one-person piece, “A Clown, a Hammer, a Bomb and God,” part of his Occupy the Empire tour. […]
The Transform Now Plowshares
Quoted from The Nuclear Resister, a journal that’s been tracking civil disobedience against nuclear weapons since 1980: Before dawn on July 28, 2012, Michael R. Walli (63), Megan Rice shcj (82), and Greg Boertje-Obed (57) carried out a disarmament action at the Oak Ridge Y-12 nuclear facility. Calling themselves Transform Now Plowshares, they hammered on […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 