MikeDunnAuthor on Nostr: Today in Labor History October 27, 1967: Catholic priest Philip Berrigan, along with ...

Today in Labor History October 27, 1967: Catholic priest Philip Berrigan, along with artist Tom Lewis, writer David Eberhardt, and Rev. James L. Mengel III, who was a United States Air Force veteran, occupied the Baltimore Selective Service (i.e., draft) office, where they poured blood on Selective Service records to protest the Vietnam War. They came to be known as the Baltimore Four. Berrigan said that their act was meant to protest "the pitiful waste of American and Vietnamese blood in Indochina." In 1973, Berrigan was excommunicated for marrying a nun. For 11 of the 29 years they were married, he was in prison for Civil Disobedience against the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons.

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