Articles by Frida Berrigan
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Existing and Resisting in the Nuclear Submarine Capital of the World
Frida Berrigan | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
25 Jun 2021 – Or How to Deliver 16,128 Hiroshimas – In New London, Connecticut, where potential world killers are built, we manage our discomfort by being a small, but visible “No.”
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Frida Berrigan | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
The United States is in the midst of a $1 trillion modernization of its submarines, bombers, ballistic and land-based missiles over the next 30 years, which was initiated under the Obama administration. Current U.S. nuclear forces consist of submarines that launch ballistic missiles, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, long-range bomber aircraft, shorter-range tactical aircraft, and the nuclear weapons that those delivery systems carry.
→ read full articleDisarming Bullies — From Schoolyards to the White House
Frida Berrigan – Waging Nonviolence,
17 Jun 2013
Daily anti-violence and conflict resolution work will also help by providing a bulwark against the violence endemic in our culture and giving kids the tools to articulate their feelings and resolve problems as they arise.
→ read full articleA Recipe for Nonviolent Parenting
Frida Berrigan – Waging Nonviolence,
11 Feb 2013
Can we make him a nonviolent person? His father and I could take a hard line. We could try and control what he is exposed to, shape what he likes, police his interests and make sure nothing we disapprove of gets through. Modern dance instead of football? Contact improv not kung fu?
→ read full articleDoing Time for Peace Work? Read Riegle’s Book
Frida Berrigan – Waging Nonviolence,
4 Feb 2013
Rosalie Riegle’s Doing Time For Peace: Resistance, Family and Community — is an edited volume of interviews with peace activists who have spent time in jails and prisons as members of families and communities.
→ read full articleJeju: Island of Resistance
Frida Berrigan – Waging Nonviolence,
17 Oct 2011
Jeju Island is very far away from all the ferment and fervor of OccupyWallStreet, OccupyChicago and OccupyBaltimore. It is even further away from OccupyNewLondon. In the tiny fishing village of Gangjeong, the South Korean Government is building a deep water naval base. The South Korean government maintains that the base is for its own Navy, but activists see the hidden hand of the United States—and its very large destroyer ships.
→ read full articleAMERICA’S GLOBAL WEAPONS MONOPOLY: DON’T CALL IT “THE GLOBAL ARMS TRADE”
Frida Berrigan - Tomdispatch,
20 Feb 2010
On the relatively rare occasions when the media turns its attention to U.S. weapons sales abroad and shines its not-so-bright spotlight on the latest set of facts and figures, it invariably speaks of “the global arms trade.” Let’s consider that label for a moment, word by word: *It is global, since there are few places […]
→ read full articleTHE CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL CHALLENGE
Frida Berrigan – Foreign Policy in Focus,
18 Nov 2009
Massive ordnance penetrator. Sounds powerful, right? This bomb is also known by its initials: MOP.About a month ago, Congress gave $68 million to the Boeing Corporation to accelerate the purchase and development of 10-12 "massive ordnance penetrators." The Pentagon says that the MOP bombs are the "weapon of choice" for an "urgent operational need." While […]
→ read full articleWEAPONS: OUR #1 EXPORT?
Frida Berrigan,
30 Jun 2009
The phrase "Obama has a lot on his plate" is the understatement of the year. The president has a to-do list a mile long, and every day a new crisis (like the coup in Honduras) gets added to the list. Can we really fault him if he sneaks the occasional smoke? But before he heads […]
→ read full articleTHE NEWS ON NUKES
Frida Berrigan,
13 May 2009
It’s not on the front pages of what is left of U.S. newspapers. The headlines are dominated by violence in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq, by Miss America’s semi-nude photo scandal, and by the Chrysler fiasco. But just about everyone who is anyone is talking about nuclear weapons this week. At the United Nations, representatives from […]
→ read full articlePROGRESS ON CLUSTER BOMBS
Frida Berrigan,
1 Apr 2009
Good news is in short supply. The economy remains bleak. The war in Iraq entered its seventh year last week, and violence reaches new pinnacles in Afghanistan. But there is one bright light amid all this gloom. Real progress is being made to ban cluster munitions. These are canisters of different sizes that release hundreds […]
→ read full articleNo Recession for Arms Sales
Frida Berrigan,
30 Sep 2008
The CEO of a weapons manufacturer has plenty of chances to rub elbows with deputy secretaries of defense, officials from Homeland Security, retired military personnel, and the best and brightest of the defense establishment almost any week of the year. One such opportunity occurred at the ComDef 2008 conference, which wrapped up at the National […]
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