Elizabeth McAlister, born on this day in 1939, is an American peace activist and former nun of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. She was married to Philip Berrigan (1923 - 2002), a fellow Catholic activist, and both were excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Of her 29 years of marriage to Philip, 11 of them were spent separated because one of them was in prison. On April 4th, 2018, McAlister and six other people (known as the Kingsbay Plowshare Seven) entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia and performed symbolic acts of disarmament. On October 24th, 2019, McAlister was convicted on four counts in federal court in Brunswick, Georgia for entering and holding a symbolic disarming of the Trident submarine's nuclear weapons. In June 2020, McAlister was sentenced to time served, probation, and restitution. "True! The jail is tomb-like. But there was life there of which - to judge from his remarks - the priest knew nothing. There was hope that women built together in that tomb; there was love that they shared in a thousand small and large ways to make "the wilderness and dry land glad, the deserts rejoice and blossom" (Isaiah 35:1)."

  • Elizabeth McAlister

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  • ErnestGoesToGulag [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Holy fuck John Wayne was an awful person:

    extreme racism

    " With a lot of blacks, there's quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. ... I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from the Indians. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."

    • FidelCastro [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, they should have shot John Wayne out in the street like the racist piece of shit he was.

      • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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        3 years ago

        saw them play this live, MDC is fuckin awesome. there was a fuckin chain of cops around tompkins square park linked in arms that you had to walk through to get into the show.

        • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          BASED

          i love how polarizing they are even today, they inspire rage from centrists and chuds alike just by having existed

          i mean if you played this in public someone would probably come kick your ass https://youtu.be/CYvdwlcFJdk

        • ErnestGoesToGulag [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Funny story:

          After a show I was waiting for a bus. The stop was near where they parked the van, the bass player was chatting with some people waiting next to me.

          One thing I heard was "I fucking hate cops, man" and I was like "oh wow they're legit"

          Later he took out some beer, looked around, and was like "eh the cops might see" and put it away. Ngl I was a tiny bit disappointed

    • Rem [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I believe in white supremacy

      U know it's nice when they just up and say it