Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and Community

Acknowledgments

acknowleDgmenTs S o many people helped me on this book: my daughter Meg, who cheerfully read drafts of my original proposal; the people who gave me leads to the narrators and ideas about crafting the book; the friends who offered hospitality on my travels, often on short notice; the folks who wracked their brains and raided their scrapbooks for photos. You all remain in my thankful heart. Particular thanks go to Felton Davis for his bibliography on prison conditions ; Felice and Jack Cohen-Joppa of the Nuclear Resister (www.nukeresister. org), who document antiwar arrests and support for prisoners; and Carl Bunin, whose online publication, This Week in History (www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/ thisweek.htm) provided me with a rich compendium of actions for peace and justice. Luke Hansen, SJ, helped with important connections; Karen Skalitsky gave perceptive suggestions as a reader; and Jeanne and George Schaller of the Helen Casey Center for Nonviolence in Midland, Michigan, offered retreat space at their poustinia. Without careful transcribers, the mass of interviews would never have seen print. In addition to the super-professional Johannah Hughes Turner, who was much more than a transcriber, Hillel Arnold, Fran Fuller, Kate Hennessy, and Maura Conway performed expert and timely transcribing work. Catholic Workers Frank Cordaro and Art Laffin frequently assisted me in tracking down crucial details, as did Liz McAlister and Ardeth Platte, OP of Jonah House. No one can write about Catholic Workers without the expert assistance of Phil Runkel, the Catholic Worker archivist at Marquette University’s Raynor Library. I thank Phil more than he’ll ever know. I thank also the many photographers cited. Their work helps the stories to come alive. I thank most especially the people who helped me to find them: Marcus Bleech of the Jesuit Conference; Wendy Chmielewski, Swarthmore Peace Collection; Morgen MacIntosh Hodgetts, Berrigan Archives at DePaul University ; Nicolette Bromberg, archivist for Ground Zero at University of Washington; Tod Ensign, Citizen Soldier; Bob Smith, Brandywine Peace Community; Lewis Randa, Peace Abbey; Leonard Eiger, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action; Ethan Vesely-Flad and Richard Deats, Fellowship of Reconciliation; Jonah House; Voices for Creative Nonviolence; Nukewatch; the Sisters of St. Francis of Tifton , Ohio; Anthony Giacchino, director of the documentary The Camden 28; Joe xvii Tropea, director of the documentary Hit and Stay; Dede Smith, Florida TimesUnion ; John Admian, Hartford Advocate; Robert Drew, Los Angeles Times; Priscilla Lord Faris; Charles Jenks; Oona DeFlaun; Bob Graf; Terra Lawson-Remer; John Schuchardt; Erin Stieber; Molly Rush; Frank Hudson; and Chrissy Nesbitt. In addition, a number of narrators gave help over and above what one could ask, especially Kim Wahl, whose persistence in locating photos and photographers of the Trident submarine and White Train actions finally paid off. I appreciate mightily the support and encouragement of my family and friends, both in Michigan and in my new home of Evanston, Illinois. Of course the most heartfelt thanks go to the 173 people I interviewed especially for this project and to the others I interviewed for my earlier oral histories. I wish I could have used all your stories. I acknowledge also the resisters like Phil Berrigan and Elmer Maas who joined the “the cloud of witnesses” before I was able to interview them. Your lives inspire us all. Thanks go, too, to Michael Ames, director of Vanderbilt University Press, to Joell Smith-Borne, managing editor, and to Peg Duthie, Susan Havlish, and Dariel Mayer for their help in bringing together this publication. I also thank Temple University Press for permission to reprint selections that originally appeared in a different form in Voices from the Catholic Worker (1993). In conclusion, I hope all the people I forgot to thank will forgive me. The community of peace people remains close to my heart and always in my mind. All mistakes and misjudgments are, of course, my own. xviii Doing Time for Peace ...