John Dear, Dan’s niece Frida Berrigan, Kathy KellyĪnd John Schuchardt, who was arrested with Dan in 1980 when they broke into the GE nuclear missile plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, launching the Plowshares Movement.ĭaniel J. Democracy Now!’s Mike Burke was there and spoke to participants including singer Dar Williams, the Rev. Prior to the funeral, hundreds took part in a two-hour procession beginning at Mary House, aĬatholic Worker house in the East Village. Dan and his brother, the late Phil Berrigan, made international headlines in 1968 when they and seven otherĬatholic antiwar activists burned draft cards in Catonsville, Maryland, to protest the Vietnam War. Francis Xavier in New York Friday for the funeral of Daniel Berrigan, the legendary antiwar priest, poet andĪctivist. More than 800 people packed into the Church of St. Left: Father Berrigan, right and his brother Philip Berrigan seized hundreds of draft records and set them on fire with homemade napalm in 1968 "One of the Great Revolutionaries": Daniel Berrigan Remembered as Hundreds Gather for
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