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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 9. september 1980 / Timeline September 9, 1980
Version 3.58. September 1980, 10. September 1980
09/09/1980
First Ploughshares disarmament action
On September 9, 1980 the "Plowshares Eight" entered a General
Electric plant in King ofPrussia, Pennsylvania where the nase cones
for the Mark 12A nuclear warheads were manufactured. With hammers
and blood they enacted the Biblical prophecies of Isaiah (2:4) and
Micah (4:3) to "beat swords inta plowshares" by hammering on two
ofthe nose cones and pouring blood on documents. They were
subsequently arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced. Recognizing
the imminent peril nuclear weapons pose for all life, there have
been other communities and individuals since the Plowshares Eight
action who, after a process of spiritual preparation and reflection
on the Biblical imperative to "beat swords inta plowshares," have
symbolically yet concretely disarmed components of US first-strike
nuclear weapons systems: the MX, Pershing II, Cruise, Minuteman
ICBM's, Trident II missiles, Trident submarines, B-52 Bombers, P-3
Orion anti-submarine aircraft, the Navstar system, the ELF
communication system and nuclear capable battleships. Combat
aircraft used for military intervention, such as helicopters and
the F-III fighter bomber, have also been disarmed. Accepting full
responsibility for their actions, the Plowshares activists have
peacefully awaited arrest folIowing each act.
PLOWSHARES EIGHT: September 9,1980 Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit priest,
author and poet from New York City; Philip Berrigan, father and
co-founder of Jonah House in Baltimore, MD; Dean Hammer, member af
the Covenant Peace Community in New Haven, CT; Elmer Maas, musician
and former college teacher from New York City; Carl Kabat, Oblate
priest and missionary; Anne Montgomery, Religious of the Sacred
Heart sister and teacher from New York City; Molly Rush, mother and
founder of the Thomas Merton Center in Pittsburgh and John
Schuchardt, ex-marine, lawyer, father and member of Jonah
House.
09/09/1980
International politik
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