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I first met Jim Forest 46 years ago. He led me to Dorothy Day, Dan Berrigan, Thich Nhat Hanh, and so much else that has shaped my identity. And I grew up to be his editor @OrbisBooks. bit.ly/31zSjpq
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An extraordinary story from @OrbisBooks. So glad Pope Francis was able to meet Fr Lapsley, a modern confessor whose witness is written on his body. bit.ly/2KT2kbd
#PopeFrancis today met Fr Michael Lapsley, a South African priest and anti-apartheid campaigner who lost his hands+an eye after receiving a letter bomb sent by security forces. He was due to discuss his “healing memories” ministry with Francis
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My beloved friend, mentor, and @OrbisBooks author (biographer of #DanielBerrigan #DorothyDay and #ThomasMerton) is on Twitter! Hope his first tweet will be followed by many more.
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On 8/4 1964 the Pentagon received word that destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin were under sustained torpedo attack from N Vietnamese forces. As many as 26 torpedoes were in the water. Before long it emerged that the “attack” was actually a misreading of the ships own propellers.
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LBJ declared that the attack was an unequivocal, unprovoked attack on US ships on routine patrol in international waters. Each of these was a lie. The ships were on a secret intelligence mission in N Vietnam’s territorial waters. Their mission was to provoke NV into turning on...
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coastal defense radar so our destroyers could plot their defenses in preparation for sea or air attacks. We anticipated a NV response to covert US raids on coastal islands. The purpose of these raids was to provoke a response.
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On August 7 the US Senate passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution authorizing the president to take all measures to repel armed attacks against the US and to prevent further aggression. It passed 88-2 and served to justify the war for the next 11 years.
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Thank you, my friend!
This arrived in today’s mail, and I immediately started to read and love it. It’s by my friend @RobertEllsberg and it’s the best kind of memoir.
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Beautiful. "You must be as good as bread, which for everyone rests on the table and from which everyone, if hungry, may cut himself a piece for nourishment." --St.. Albert Chmielowski
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“Are you not a robber, you who consider your own that which has been given you solely to distribute to others? This bread which you have set aside is the bread of the hungry. ... Those riches you have hoarded are the riches of the poor.”—St Basil the Great, d 379
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Jewish philosopher Martin Buber died June 13 1965. He taught that our own humanity is diminished to the extent that we treat others as objects rather than subjects.
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With two founders (1965) of the Catholic Peace Fellowship: Jim Forest and Tom Cornell. Blessed are the peacemakers.
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Anne Frank, born June 12 1929 would be 90 today. How would we respond if it was her face we recognized among the children seeking asylum at the border?
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