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He planned to get his degree and then go to work in the nuclear-powered missile industry. I always wanted to write, but I always figured it’d be no good unless somehow the hand just took the pen and started moving without me really having anything to do with it. The Trident and its sister systems had the capability of launching a first-strike nuclear war without sustaining unacceptable damage in return.
With other peace activists they bought land beside the Trident base and started the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action.
Politically, we chose to experiment with nonviolent actions resisting the Trident, a system that seemed to epitomize all the violence of our society.”
Douglass and his fellow activists distributed leaflets in the nearby community and to workers entering the Navy bases. Following the Gandhian philosophy of letting go of a fixed intention, they remained in the Birmingham area and established Mary’s House, a Catholic Worker hospitality house that provides shelter, food and clothing to those in need.
In the introduction to the JFK book, Douglass wrote, “The story of JFK and the Unspeakable is drawn from the suffering and compassion of many witnesses who saw the truth and spoke it. In living out the truth, we are liberated from the Unspeakable.”
Like, automatic writing. I think if I’d never gotten rid of them I’d never been free.
(Excerpted from Jim’s interview with Jerry Hopkins, July 26, 1969)
How about that. But after only two months at UC Berkeley, he experienced an inexplicable emptiness, left college and joined the Army.
After his stint in the Army, Douglass enrolled at Santa Clara University where he sought “the best classes and teachers” with no design for where that would lead him.
It must be true, ‘cuz Stewart Ledbetter sez so:
The book, “The Vermont Way – A Republican Governor Leads America’s Most Liberal State” was completed 18 months ago, said publisher Chris Bray.
An extensive editing process followed, but Bray describes the book as “the best political memoir by a Vermont governor yet.”
Yeah, I suspect that “extensive editing process” was needed to hack through the thickets of Douglas’ turgid prose and overcome his natural reluctance to say anything of substance.
I am so looking forward to not reading this.
Personally, we tried to confront our racism, sexism, consumerism—all the isms that allowed us to violate others. Douglass was also deeply influenced by the priest, writer, and social activist Thomas Merton. In those events, Douglass writes, “Merton sensed an evil whose depth and deceit go beyond the capacity of words to describe. He found some of his students so opposed to the Vietnam War that they burned their draft cards and formed a group called The Hawaiian Resistance.
“We sought the truth of a nonviolent way of life,” Douglass says, “both personally and politically.
. I kept a lot of note books through high school and college and then when I left school for some dumb reason — maybe it was wise — I threw them all away. They emphasized the religious basis of their views and emphasized that while religions may differ, most have in a common a commitment to nonviolence.
Their work extended to resisting the White Train, which moved nuclear weapons around the country.
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