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Philip
Berrigan's last words:
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I die with the conviction, held since 1968 and Catonsville, that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself. We have already exploded such weapons in Japan in 1945 and the equivalent of them in Iraq in 1991, in Yugoslavia in 1999, and in Afghanistan in 2001. We left a legacy for other people of deadly radioactive isotopes - a prime counterinsurgency measure. For example, the people of Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Pakistan will be battling cancer, mostly from depleted uranium, for decades. In addition, our nuclear adventurism over 57 years has saturated the planet with nuclear garbage from testing, from explosions in high altitudes (four of these), from 103 nuclear power plants, from nuclear weapons factories that can't be cleaned up - and so on. Because of myopic leadership, of greed for possessions, a public chained to corporate media, there has been virtually no response to these realities... Okay, you get the idea. This is the part of the site where I stick my neck out, while hiding behind the “Ain't Freedom of Speech Grand'” argument. So, if you're squeamish, a Fox News fan, or have a well-fed head in the sand, please read on, you'll find life-saving, actionable info. Or at worst, a portrait of one person's sanctimonious (human) nature.
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local environmental crises
Indian
Pointless
Hudson River
Shoreham
NYC's recycling apartheid
feeding
without horror
A I D S
the worst
catastrophe in human history
A decade before
11 million AIDS orphans, we suffered the horror
up close; others of us, by merest fluke, survived.
I am grateful
to have called these men friends, colleagues, and heroes.
Each fought against the bigotries that permitted this pandemic to hurt
so many.
Tommy Barker Luis Bocheciamp William J. Boyd Bern Boyle Bob Carroll |
Chris deBlasio Rick Emery David Feinberg Wayne Fischer Robert Garcia |
John Gearing Steve Harvey Ken Ketwig Micheal Levin Mark Lida |
John Mangano Kiki Mason Frank Maya Aldyn McKean Georg Osterman |
Mitch Starr Ron Vawter Carl Valentino Rex Wassermann Martin Worman |
patriotic
pacifism
Bushisms - now in the Oxford dictionary
New York State watchdogs
National Resources Defense Council
peace-seeking coalition
unimaginable CEO evil
Noam Chomsky
Jane Goodall
doing unto others
a d b u s t e r s
military industrial welfare indexing