Screenings

Fordham University, September 15,2019.

Sponsors: Pax Christi Metro New York; Fordham’s Center on Religion and Culture; The Institute for International Humanitarian Affairs and The Center on Ethics Education.

Dominican Sisters Ardeth Platte and Carol Gilbert took part in the post-screening discussion

The two nuns together have spent 15 years in prison for their Plowshares actions.

Sr. Ardeth Platte discusses the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

At a special Fordham University event in February 2019, featuring the Kings Bay Plowshares defendants an excerpt from the documentary was played.

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Megan Tourlis and Martha Hennesy

Carmen Trotta, Helen Young, Frida Berrigan and her son Seamus

A special event on February 17,2019 at Fordham University

Patrick O’Neill, a defendant in the King Bay Plowshares case, addresses the audience.

Helen Young with Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Professor of Theology at Fordham University.

Martha Hennessy, granddaughter of Dorothy Day, is one of the Kings Bay Plowshares defendants.

Carmen Trotta, a defendants in the Kings Bay Plowshares case, explains the reasons for the protest action.

Claire Grady, a defendant in the Kings Bay Plowshares case, is facing as much as 25 years in prison for the protest action at the naval base.

Global Peace Film Festival, Orlando, Florida

June 1-3, 2018: Pittsburgh and surrounding areas

St. Winifred Parish, Castle Shannon, PA

Sisters of Divine Providence, Allison Park, PA;

Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA

Sr. Megan Rice, Walt Kochirka, Molly Rush and Dee Kochirka at the screening at St. Winifred Parish. Molly Rush took part in the first Plowshares action in 1980.

May 18-20, 2018: The Rowe Center, Rowe, Massachusetts

Ralph Nader, lawyer, activist and former U.S. presidential candidate, was the featured speaker at the Rowe Center for a series of lectures focusing on citizen activism. The weekend event focused on militarism, the ever growing Pentagon budget, and what ordinary citizens can do to hold elected officials accountable. Our film was screened during the weekend.

Notre Dame University

The Browning Cinema at the DeBartolo Center of Notre Dame University hosted a screening of our film on Sunday, April 8, 2018.

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UNITED NATIONS

The Nuns, The Priests, and The Bombs was screened at the United Nations on June 29, 2017 while negotiations were underway on a new Treaty that bans the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. The new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted by the U.N. on July 7, 2017 by a vote of 122 to 1 with 1 abstention.

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The Center for Study of Responsive Law and Essential Information, Washington, D.C.

The Nuns, The Priests, and The Bombs was screened in Washington D.C. on November 30. The screening was sponsored by: The Center for Study of Responsive Law and Essential Information, non-profits founded by Ralph Nader.