Plowshares movement
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The Plowshares movement is an anti-nuclear weapons and Christian pacifist movement that advocates active resistance to war. The group often practices a form of protest that involves the damaging of we
On September 9, 1980, Daniel Berrigan (above), his brother Philip, and six others (the "Plowshares Eight") initiated the Plowshares Movement.
Church Committee Report Book III
Swords into ploughshares
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"Beating swords into ploughshares" is the conversion of military weapons or technologies for peaceful civilian applications. The phrase originates from Isaiah 2:4:
Plowshares movement
…several members damaged nuclear warhead nose cones and were subsequently convicted. The name refers to the biblical text of prophet Isaiah who said that swords shall be beaten into plowshares. The U.S. Plowshares group was deeply influenced by Catholicism and, in particular, the Catholic left movement of the late 1960s and the Catholic Worker…
Let Us Beat Swords into Ploughshares, a 1959 sculpture by Evgeniy Vuchetich in the United Nations Art Collection
Hand-separated large candlestick church chandelier with brass wax drip tray – GDR around 1980 – Use of armoured steel and brass – Single piece – Weight 10 kilograms
Mosaic in the Beit Habad Gallery, Jerusalem, quoting Isaiah 2:4, with lion, spear and spade
Tokyo Tower, the second-tallest tower in Japan, is partially constructed from steel obtained by recycling US tanks damaged in battle during the Korean War.