Plowshare ‘fools’ strike today

Today, August 6th, on the 64th anniversary of the ‘crime against humanity’, the nuclear destruction of the city of Hiroshima in Japan, two elderly priest friends of our murdered friend Father Lorenzo Roesbaugh OMI committed acts of civil disobedience to end such crimes.

One is Father Carl Kabet, 75, like Lorenzo, also an Oblate priest. He has spent the last 25 years as a member (much of that time in prison) of the Plowshare movement, attempting to destroy and disarm nuclear weapons. You can read about this nonviolent action and Father Kabat’s statement to the press at the Catholic Worker web page.

Another friend of Lorenzo’s, Fr. Jerome Zawada, 72, a Franciscan priest, was arrested today when he and another person went to pray at the Virtual Border Tower under Construction in Arizona.

Part of their press statement reads:

As I look at my elders, Lorenzo, Carl and Jerome risking their life and prison time to serve the poor and bring peace and justice to the world I wonder what I must do to practice what I do believe and stop these “crimes against humanity” like Hiroshima.

I remember hearing the horrors of the mass killing at Hiroshima by a Jesuit, Father Arrupe S.J. who was a survivor of this crime. It is certainly something all Americans must be aware of and work to stop. Unfortunately, as Daniel Ellsberg, of Pentagon Papers fame, writes today “America has been asleep at the wheel for 64 years.” God Bless America and Forgive us this “crime against humanity.”

We in America, need to stay awake and by remembering prevent Hiroshimas today.

In a spirit of hope and new life I took an update picture of the front lawn garden today and it appears at the top of Diary of Worm.

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