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In the King of Prussia – first plowshares trial
IN THE KING OF PRUSSIA: THE TRIAL OF THE PLOWSHARES 8 takes us back to 1982 with Emile de Antonio’s portrayal of the Plowshares 8 civil disobedience at General Electric’s nuclear weapons plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. The defendants play themselves. Martin Sheen plays the judge in the movie. This is the first plowshares …
Catonsville Nine – civil disobedience displaces war
17 May 1968, 9 people walked into a Selective Service Office, took hundreds of draft files for the Vietnam war from a cabinet, brought them outside, doused them with homemade napalm and burned them for nonviolence and civil disobedience.