Trials of Nonviolence

Listen: In this third and final episode, we hear the Plowshares activists explain why trial and sacrifice have always been essential to their movement. For one activist, sacrifice included spending her 79th birthday in a jail cell.

Listen: The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 felt called by the Holy Spirit to break onto the naval submarine base. They were also inspired by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his talk of three evils: racism, extreme materialism and militarism.

Listen: Four activists of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 explain why they broke into a U.S. nuclear weapons facility, and what it felt like.