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4 unusual facts about Philip Berrigan


Father Berrigan

Philip Berrigan, American Catholic priest and peace activist, brother of Daniel

Philip Berrigan

These people stole files out of 4 Boston Draft Boards in order to prove that the State of Massachusetts was drafting mostly Puerto Ricans and poor whites to fill their quotas.

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On September 9, 1980, Berrigan, his brother Daniel, and six others (the 'Plowshares Eight') began the Plowshares Movement when they entered the General Electric Nuclear Missile Re-entry Division in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, where nose cones for the Mark 12A warheads were made.

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Berrigan helped set up Jonah House as the community headquarters of the organisation, a terraced house in, Reservoir Hill, later moved to St. Peter the Apostle Cemetery in West Baltimore.



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