In February of last year Brown War Watch hosted a film screening of The Nuns, the Priests and the Bombs. This powerful documentary highlights the plowshares movement, and the daring group of Catholic anti-nuclear weapon activists that broke into a nuclear weapons facility in protest against these devastating weapons.
A description of the film from the website:
Are they criminals or prophets sending a wake-up call to the world?
Since 1980, activists in lay and religious life have undertaken dramatic Plowshares protests, derived from the biblical injunction, “They shall beat their swords into plowshares,” incurring long prison sentences in an ongoing campaign to deter nuclear disaster.
Following the film screening was a panel featuring the film’s director, Helen Young, investigative journalist Alex Nunes, and activist Frida Berrigan. Check out the panel below:
Today, as we await the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to enter into force (after receiving the required number of ratifications in October), this film remains as relevant as ever. While the United States frequently flouts international weapons bans (such as the ban on cluster bombs) and international law (such as the repeated use of torture by the US on detained prisoners of war) this treaty provides a reminder of the horrors of nuclear warfare and an opportunity to highlight the moral arguments against their use.
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