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aPPenDix a Brief Biographies of the narrators Genevieve (Mickey) Allen (1919–2008) The late Mickey Allen was an army nurse in Italy during World War II. After raising nine children, she became a peace activist with Pax Christi and the Hartford Catholic Worker (CW). Her first arrest was at age sixty-five. “Grandma Mickey” became a favorite with the arresting officers , but not with her old friends from the local parish. She told me she wanted her tombstone to say, “Here lies Mickey. She did her damnedest.” Teri Allen One of Mickey Allen’s daughters, Teri is married with small children. As she reminded me, she has the luxury of bowing out of public life when conditions work against her responding. “People in war-torn countries don’t have that. The women in Iraq with their babies, they’re in the same spot every single day, always dealing with the reality of war.” A multimedia artist, her altered billboards call the people of New Haven to new understandings. Chris Allen-Doucot Chris is Jackie Allen-Doucot’s husband and a frequent public speaker for the Hartford CW. Deeply thoughtful and articulate, he’s sometimes able to persuade the judge in favor of clemency for nonviolent protest, even once for pouring blood on a federal building. He has faced death both in Darfur and on the streets of New Haven, but doesn’t let fear stop him. Jackie Allen-Doucot One of Mickey Allen’s daughters, Jackie participated in the Griffiss Plowshares action in 1983 when she was only twenty. After her second Plowshares action, she married Chris Doucot and together they founded the Hartford CW. They have two children, Micah and Ammon. Micah Allen-Doucot Micah started going to protests in a stroller. When he was twelve, he traveled to the Sudan with his father, Chris, delivering food and soccer balls to a refugee camp. He says he wants to live in a Catholic Worker house when he grows up. Steve Baggarly and Kim Williams Steve and Kim are one of many couples who learned to live resistance at the Los Angeles CW. Now they and their two boys have a house of hospitality in Norfolk, Virginia, one of the most heavily militarized cities in the world. Steve often spends months behind bars, but their interview shows that stay-at-home mom Kim does the hardest time. Does not include biographies of those whose older interviews appear in “Roundtable on Resistance” that concludes Chapter 4. 345 Father Dan Berrigan, SJ Dan was born in 1921 and ordained a Jesuit in 1952. Radicalized by his brother, Phil, during the Vietnam era, he participated in the second draft board raid and then thwarted the FBI for months by going underground after his sentencing. A poet and a pastor to the nonviolent peace movement, he continues to critique US warmaking. Frida Berrigan Frida graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts . Recently married to Patrick Sheehan-Gaumer, she is active with the War Resisters League and in the campaign to close the prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo. Jerry Berrigan Several years after graduating from Kalamazoo College in Michigan, Jerry and his wife, Molly Mechtenberg, started the Kalamazoo Quaker CW, with their friends Jen and Mike DeWaele. The two couples and their several children provide tutoring, after-school mentoring, and a safe outdoor play area for neighborhood children in their East Side community. Kate Berrigan After graduating from Oberlin, Kate moved to Oakland, California , where she works with adults who have developmental disabilities and is preparing for graduate school in physical therapy. Willa Bickham In 1968, Willa and her husband, Brendan Walsh, started Viva House Catholic Worker in Baltimore. An artist and a pediatric nurse, Willa has long supported resistance work, particularly by providing hospitality to activists. Darla Bradley Darla was the youngest member of the 1986 Silo Plowshares action . She was sentenced to eight years plus five years probation and $1,680 restitution . Darla told me in 1989 of her painful decision to pay the restitution. In 2007, when I was collecting material for this book, she e-mailed a thoughtful postscript. Dan Burns Offspring of a political family in upstate New York, Dan led a fast life in the film industry before coming to the Ithaca CW and a life of resistance. He’s one of the St. Patrick’s Four, the first resistance group to be prosecuted in federal court after the Iraq War started. Their state jury trial on a...

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