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The Book Party and Reception: The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
The Trail of the Catonsville Nine has been out of print for 15 years, and the new edition includes Robin Andersen's preface and essay that brings the play's ideas and themes up to date including an analysis of the media coverage of the war in Iraq.
Poetry and documentarian Lynn Sachs with footage from Investigation of a Flame
The new edition includes Berrigan's original introduction, and additional materials by Robin Andersen and James Marsh that bring its ideas and themes up to date in the context of the war in Iraq.
On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm.
The Catholic activist involved in the protest against the war included Daniel and Philip Berrigan; all were found guilty of destroying government property and sentenced to three years in jail.
The Berrigans and their colleagues went on to lives spent struggling against war, poverty and injustice. The Trial of the Catonsville Nine became a powerful expression of the conflics between conscience and conduct, power and justice, law and morality. Drawing on court transcripts, Daniel Berrigan wrote a dramatic account of the trial and the issues it so vividly embodied. The result is a landmark work of art that has been performed frequently over the last thirty-five years as theater, and inspired a film and documentary.
One who wants to know what an authentic Christian response to the questions of out time is like would be wise to listen to Father Berrigan. - The New York Review Of Books
April 7th
6:30- 8:30pm
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
Lowenstein Bldg. - 12th Floor Lounge
