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Dewey Decimal Number: 812.54
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ISBN number: 0823223310
Label: Fordham University Press
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Page Count: 156
Printing Date: March 03, 2004
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Release Date: March 03, 2004
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On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm.The Catholic activists involved in this protest against the War included Daniel and Philip Berrigan; all were found guilt of destroying government property and sentenced to three years in jail. Dan Berrigan fled, and later turned himself in.The Berrigans and their colleagues went on to lives spent struggling against war, poverty, and injustice. And The Trial of the Catonsville Nine became a powerful expression of the conflicts between conscience and conduct, power and justice, law and morality. Drawing on court transcripts, Berrigan wrote a dramatic account of the trial and the issues it so vividly embodied. The result is a landmark work of art that been performed frequently over the past thirty five years, both as a piece of theater and a motion picture.This new edition includes Berrigan's original introduction, and additional materials by Robin Anderson and James Marsh that bring its ideas and themes up to date against the context of the war in Iraq.'A wonderfully moving testament to nine consciences.' - Clive Barnes, The New York Times'One who wants to know what an authentically Christian response to the questions of our time is like would be wise to listen to Father Berrigan.' -The New York Review of Books
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It is 36 years, 11 months, and 1 day since the end of the 1960s. But look out mama, this little book is starting to have the look of a classic.
The act-up Berrigans, Fr. Dan and Fr. Phil, were irritating as hell, really. The eventually p.o'd about everybody, especially their own radical allies. A sometimes interesting poet, Dan was the aesthete and the brooder, Phil the charismatic doer, pushing the edge. Dan's many books almost always lie in the DMZ between propaganda and art, as does this short play for performance. Such DMZs were trademark of the era: non-fiction "novels", street theatre, etc. Most long gone with the wind -- justifiably. Including likely 90% of the Berrigans' antics, ludicrous politics and bogus theology by the dumpster full.
But guess what? Take a look. Dan ran the race, so to speak. His life ethic was consistent -- denouncing abortion, ministering to dying AIDs patients, giving Israel no comfort for its war machine, either. Indeed of left wing Catholic activists and troublemakers, he is about alone in this consistency as to the so-called "seamless garment" theology. So what, then, about certain perishable opinions relating mostly to the secular sphere, personality issues, and the aesthetics of the Berrigans' essential message about man's new monstrous potential for worldwide destruction. Does God have good taste, like Charley Tuna? Or does He even taste good? John of the Apocalypse didn't find Him so . . . something about bitter in the belly, if you may recall. And they didn't like Jonas either.
This document, taken from the trial transcripts about why 9 Catholic anti-Vietnam war activists burned draft documents and went to jail, is as close to art as Dan ever got. It will do. The 9 speak for themselves, like them or not. It retains freshness, with all odds heavily stacked against it.
It doesn't take much to last, John Berryman observed 50 years after Stephen Crane's death. The Red Badge was enough. So I suspect is this.
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