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Monday, May 5, 2008
(Ardeth Platte & Carol Gilbert)
Meet
two Dominican sisters
who each spent years in federal penitentiary for their protest at a US nuclear missile base in Colorado. They drew a symbolic cross on one of the Minuteman III nuclear missile using their own blood. They came to Chicago from their community at
Jonah House
to be honored by the Third Convocation of Dominican Sisters
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Ploughshares Actions with Dominican Sisters
Ardeth Platte & Carol Gilbert
— Dominican Sisters and Anti-Nuclear Activists
Originally from Grand Rapids, MI, the sisters live in the "resistence community,"
Jonah House
, in Baltimore, MD; they were in Chicago to
recieve an award
from the 3rd Convocation of Dominican Sisters.
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