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Longtime peace activist Anne Montgomery no longer able to tolerate chemotherapy
http://disarmnowplowshares.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/anne-montgomerys-physical-health-is-deteriorating-though-her-spirit-is-strong/
Anne Montgomery’s physical health is deteriorating, though her spirit is strong
Posted on March 2, 2012 by Disarm Now Plowshares
(Longtime peace activist says her health is on the decline, by Patrick O’Neill, published in the National Catholic Reporter Online, March 2, 2012)
In an email to friends, longtime peace activist Sacred Heart Sr. Anne Montgomery said her physical health is deteriorating and that she would no longer be able to tolerate the chemotherapy treatments she has been receiving.
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Montgomery, who has spent years in jail and prison for acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, mostly against nuclear weapons, joined Jesuit Fr. Philip Berrigan, his brother, Daniel Berrigan, and five others for the first Plowshares action Sept. 9, 1980, when the eight activists (the Plowshares 8) entered a General Electric weapons plant in King of Prussia, Pa., and used carpenter’s hammers to disarm two nose cones on a Mark 12A nuclear warhead.
In 2011, Montgomery received a two-month federal prison sentence for her role with members of Disarm Now Plowshares, who entered a weapons facility in Washington state Nov. 2, 2009.
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A longtime volunteer with Christian Peacemaker Teams, Montgomery received the 2011 Peace Award of the War Resisters League.
Christian Peacemakers has sent delegations to many war-torn areas, including Haiti, Iraq and the West Bank. Montgomery has spent much of the last seven years with other Christian Peacemakers in Hebron, a war-torn city in the West Bank, said David McReynolds, who presented the League’s award to Montgomery.
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Anne Montgomery’s physical health is deteriorating, though her spirit is strong
Posted on March 2, 2012 by Disarm Now Plowshares
(Longtime peace activist says her health is on the decline, by Patrick O’Neill, published in the National Catholic Reporter Online, March 2, 2012)
In an email to friends, longtime peace activist Sacred Heart Sr. Anne Montgomery said her physical health is deteriorating and that she would no longer be able to tolerate the chemotherapy treatments she has been receiving.
<snip>
Montgomery, who has spent years in jail and prison for acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, mostly against nuclear weapons, joined Jesuit Fr. Philip Berrigan, his brother, Daniel Berrigan, and five others for the first Plowshares action Sept. 9, 1980, when the eight activists (the Plowshares 8) entered a General Electric weapons plant in King of Prussia, Pa., and used carpenter’s hammers to disarm two nose cones on a Mark 12A nuclear warhead.
In 2011, Montgomery received a two-month federal prison sentence for her role with members of Disarm Now Plowshares, who entered a weapons facility in Washington state Nov. 2, 2009.
<snip>
A longtime volunteer with Christian Peacemaker Teams, Montgomery received the 2011 Peace Award of the War Resisters League.
Christian Peacemakers has sent delegations to many war-torn areas, including Haiti, Iraq and the West Bank. Montgomery has spent much of the last seven years with other Christian Peacemakers in Hebron, a war-torn city in the West Bank, said David McReynolds, who presented the League’s award to Montgomery.
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