Beyond Religious Freedom: Religious Activity in the Civil Disobedience Trials of Plowshares Antinuclear Activists.

RELIGIOUS societies; CIVIL disobedience; POLITICAL participation; RESISTANCE to government; PUBLIC demonstrations; RELIGIOUS charities

The article highlights religious activity in the civil disobedience trials of Plowshares antinuclear activists. It reports that Plowshares movement is an anti-nuclear weapons and Christian pacifist movement that advocates active resistance to war. It mentions that the group often practices a form of symbolic protest that involves the damaging of weapons and military property.