American pacifist and editor
Carmen Trotta is a pacifist and a member of the Catholic Worker Movement ,[ 1] Trotta has been an opponent of the war in Iraq.[ 2] He has been an associate editor of the Catholic Worker , and has served on the executive committee of the War Resisters League .
Education
Trotta graduated from Grinnell College in 1984.
Pacifist and human rights actions
Trotta helped organize the April 20, 2002 march on Washington to oppose the War on Terror .
On May 30, 2008, he was sentenced to ten days in jail for protesting abuses at Guantanamo in front of the U.S Supreme Court .[ 3]
He was a founding member of Witness Against Torture ,[ 4] and as a member of that group, he was the first person arrested in the "100 Days Campaign " protest at the White House, against the prison at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp [ 5] [ 6]
Kings Bay Plowshares
On April 4, 2018, he took part in the Kings Bay Plowshares action.[ 7]
Bibliography
References
^ Elie, Paul (November 8, 1998). "The Patron Saint of Paradox" . The New York Times (November 8). Retrieved April 28, 2010 .
^ O'Grady, Jim (January 27, 2002). "Civil Disobedience Keeps Its Allure; Only the Wars and Causes Change" (newspaper article) . The New York Times . Retrieved June 22, 2008 .
^ Sadowski, Dennis. "Eleven Activists Sent to Jail for Demonstrating at U.S. Supreme Court" . Catholic News Service . Archived from the original on July 29, 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2008 .
^ edited by Anna J. Brown (November 18, 2008). Brown, Anna J. (ed.). Witness Against Torture : the campaign to shut down Guantánamo . Yellow Bike Press. ISBN 978-1-60725-507-9 . OCLC 428980304 .
^ Arthur Delaney (April 30, 2009). "Anti-torture Protestors Arrested in Droves Outside the White House" . Huffington Post . Retrieved December 17, 2009 .
^ The United States and torture : interrogation, incarceration, and abuse . Cohn, Marjorie, 1948-. New York: New York University Press. 2012. ISBN 9780814769829 . OCLC 778271101 .{{cite book }}
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^ "Explainer: Who are the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, the Catholics convicted of protesting nuclear weapons?" . America Magazine . November 20, 2019. Retrieved December 29, 2020 .