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.
Carmen Trotta | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 9, 1962 |
| Education | Grinnell College |
| Occupation | associate editor |
| Employer | Catholic Worker |
Education
editTrotta graduated from Grinnell College in 1984.
Pacifist and human rights actions
editTrotta 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
editOn April 4, 2018, he took part in the Kings Bay Plowshares action.[7]
Bibliography
edit- Brown, Anna J., ed. (November 18, 2008). Witness Against Torture : the campaign to shut down Guantánamo. Yellow Bike Press. ISBN 978-1-60725-507-9. OCLC 428980304.
References
edit- ^ 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.
{{cite book}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ 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}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Explainer: Who are the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, the Catholics convicted of protesting nuclear weapons?". America Magazine. November 20, 2019. Retrieved December 29, 2020.