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Truth-Out
February 3, 2018
Frida Berrigan, age 10, protesting in front of the White House next to Ched Myers and her father Phil Berrigan (right). (Photo: WNV / Berrigan Family). I was first arrested at the White House when I was 10 years old. My hair was pulled off my face by a blue bandana. I drew a penguin on my sign and wrote:Ãâà...
Salon
January 11, 2018
As a mother and an activist, here's what I've concluded as 2018 begins: it's getting harder and harder to think about the future — at least in that soaring Whitney Houston fashion. You know the song: “I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way . . .” These days, doesn't itÃâà...
The Nation.
January 8, 2018
I get breathless and sweaty thinking about what life will be like for my kids. By Frida Berrigan. January 8, 2018. fb; tw; mail; Print; msg; wa; sms. Child at Trump protest. Demonstrators gather in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, at the Plaza de Los Angeles in September 2017. (AP Photo / ReedÃâà...
Open Democracy
March 27, 2017
Preparing for the long haul under the Trump administration. Frida Berrigan 27 March 2017. There are hundreds of ways to stay upright and human in trying times—here's a selection. This article was first published by Waging Nonviolence. Credit: Johnny Silvercloud / Flickr. Some rights reserved. By now, my inchoate hopesÃâà...
The Nation.
February 16, 2017
So reality has inexorably, inescapably penetrated my life. It didn't take long. Yes, Donald Trump is actually the president of the United States. In that guise, in just his first weeks in office, he's already declared war on language, on loving, on people who are different from him—on the kind of world, in short,Ãâà...
National Catholic Reporter (blog)
December 6, 2016
Into the breach spoke Frida Berrigan, who used the words of her late uncle, noted pacifist and anti-war activist Jesuit Fr. Daniel Berrigan: “Know where you stand and stand there.” She said that was his public, polite form of an earthier version used among family that went: “Hope is where your ass is.”.
Democracy Now!
May 2, 2016
niece of Daniel Berrigan, and a longtime peace activist. She writes a regular column for Waging Nonviolence. 0. Shares. This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Donate. As we remember the life and legacy of Father Daniel Berrigan, who died on Saturday at the age of 94, his niece FridaÃâà...
Sojourners
June 28, 2015
Frida Berrigan helped to found Witness Against Torture in 2005. She writes the Little Insurrections blog for WagingNonviolence.org and is the author of It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised By Radicals and Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood (OR Books). Frida lives in New London, Connecticut with her husband PatrickÃâà...
Baltimore City Paper
March 17, 2015
Frida Berrigan comes to her parenting book, “It Runs in the Family,” from a different perspective. Her parents were Philip Berrigan, a radical pacifist and onetime priest, famous as a member of the Baltimore Four, who poured blood on draft records, and as a leader of the Catonsville Nine, who set fire to moreÃâà...
Truth-Out
February 15, 2015
Mark Karlin: In your introduction, you mention that your legendary parents, Father Philip Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth McAlister, did not think that their commitment to nonviolent resistance would allow for raising children. However, they had three children, including you. Was it just that nature ensued, or didÃâà...
