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Rabblevox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 11:27 AM
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Yesterday was Daniel Berrigan's 90th birthday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Berrigan

"Daniel Berrigan, SJ (born May 9, 1921) is an American poet, peace activist, and Catholic priest. Daniel and his brother Philip were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for their involvement in antiwar protests during the Vietnam war."

The interview on Democracy Now is about 5 years old. It's well worth watching.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/9/headlines/peace_activist_fr_daniel_berrigan_celebrates_90th_birthday
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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 11:38 AM
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1. How is this relevant to this forum?
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Rabblevox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 11:41 AM
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2. I would ask, how is it not relevant?
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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 11:51 AM
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4. Wait, I asked you first! :)
I guess I just don't see how a man's birthday is a relevant discussion topic in this forum. I must be missing something, can you explain it to me?
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Rabblevox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 11:59 AM
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6. He has been a leader for the past 60 years on civil rights, anti-war, and it's his birthday...
He deserves to be honored and remembered. He has been bold and consistent and fearless. He has worked for everything you and I both believe in, for over 60 years. And he is a priest. And his spirituality is important to him. I think that makes his 90th birthday pretty appropriate for this board.
K?
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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 12:00 PM
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7. Fair enough, Thanks.
I really DID just want to know why you thought it belonged here.

That wasn't so hard, now was it?

:fistbump:
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 03:38 PM
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17. He sired a two-headed baby.
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Jim__ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 11:45 AM
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3. We could use some activists like Berrigan now.
They might wake people up to our actual plight and to what we can do about it.
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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 11:52 AM
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5. What is "our actual plight"?
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Rabblevox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 12:02 PM
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8. how 'bout permanent war, corporate government,and the patriot act? "plight" enough? n/t
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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 12:08 PM
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9. Sure, thats "plight" enough, but what do those things have to do with this forum?
Edited on Tue May-10-11 12:09 PM by cleanhippie
And I was hoping for an answer from the one that posted that. (Unless you already know somehow what they are thinking?)
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Rabblevox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 12:33 PM
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13. because Berrigan has fought his whole life against these things, from a religious basis...
I'm not asking anyone to agree with his beliefs. I AM asking that people acknowledge that his beliefs informed his actions, and that he has been at the front of justice and peace movements longer than many here have been alive.
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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 01:10 PM
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16. Well, I do agree that people beliefs DO affect their actions.
In both positive and negative ways.
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Jim__ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 12:30 PM
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12. Ageed - n/t
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 12:08 PM
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10. I Had No Right
God of the poor man
This is how the day began
Eight codefendants
I, Daniel Berrigan
Oh and only a layman’s batch of napalm
We pulled the draft files out
We burned them in the parking lot
Better the files than the bodies of children ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxWaV_QZAzA
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Rabblevox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 12:35 PM
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14. perfect find. thank you!
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 12:09 PM
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11. ... There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war ...
The Price of Peacemaking
by Daniel Berrigan
http://disarmnowplowshares.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/dberrigan/
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Rabblevox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 12:44 PM
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15. watch this Daniel Berrigan video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGzQ9wEdjeE&feature=related
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 04:57 PM
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18. "When the radical priest came to get us released..."
"we was all on the cover of Newsweek."
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