Originally appeared at TomDispatch. It’s strange when you think about it. Today, TomDispatch regular Frida Berrigan offers a look at the staggering number of taxpayer dollars that go to just one major arms manufacturer in one city in America, New London, Connecticut,...

Nearly 20 years ago, as I left the War Resisters League, or WRL, offices in lower Manhattan for the first time, I noticed that my fingertips were covered in black soot and ink. My hands were full of tracts and leaflets, and I had been looking through nonviolence...

My dad died nine years ago this week. Talking about waging nonviolence and little insurrections. In life, as in dying, my dad was a peaceful warrior. In the fall of 2002, after months of feeling lousy and only very slowly healing from hip surgery, Phil Berrigan,...