Word: antiwar
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...Fourteen, the Flower City Conspiracy, and many more-each of these groups has made considerable impact through their practice of non-violent civil disobedience. And with the decline of large but flighty organizations purporting to represent the student Left, the Catholic groups have become the vanguard of the militant antiwar movement in America today...
...aims of this movement-especially among clerics-are oriented toward the Church itself. On one level, there is growing pressure for liturgical reform which would reflect present-day realities, and on another, there are concerted efforts to prod the Catholic hierarchy into positions of support for the antiwar movement and civil rights. And much of these activists' radical zeal has been a direct result of their own experience within the Church...
THEY ARE now the principal characters of the American antiwar movement, and while Francine Gray's account includes a discussion of the broader movement within the Church and a section on Ivan Illich, it necessarily centers on them. Hers is the most complete chronicle to date of the Berrigans' activity, and it is a particularly important book in view of the U. S. government's latest at tempt to discredit their movement and intimidate others who would join them...
...them-and particularly Philip, who was indicted by the grand jury-fears that once a form of demonstration has been tried, it will soon become assimilated into the mainstream of conventional political action, "part of the liberal bag." The Berrigans took part in each escalating stage of the antiwar protest in order to build the right kind of momentum in the developing confrontation with the U. S. government. With each new action, the bounds of nonviolence were thus broadened and re-defined...
...prevent such discussion from taking place. The tapping of telephones, the surveillance of mail, the use of secret informers to record a discussion and then construe that discussion as a "conspiracy" is ample proof that the government is interested not in individual rights but in the suppression of antiwar discourse. If the United States is successful in framing Philip and the rest, it will also have intimidated others with similar objections to this war. In contrast, it seems clear that those involved in the discussion are more obedient to their own precepts than are U. S. officials to theirs, even...