{"id":782,"date":"2013-03-29T16:11:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T21:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2013-03-29T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T21:11:18","slug":"good-friday-arrest-in-the-service-of-a-peaceful-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday arrest in the service of a peaceful world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For several years I have\u00a0joined members of the Brandywine Peace Community at Good Friday demonstrations outside the Lockheed Martin facility in King of Prussia, PA. Lockheed Martin is the world\u2019s largest war profiteer and nuclear weapons manufacturer.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This annual\u00a0peaceful action takes the form of a religious observance and includes a modified version of the Stations of the Cross.\u00a0A few participants\u00a0feel moved to carry their crosses and the Good Friday message of suffering humanity directly into the Lockheed Martin facility, to confront this suffering at its source. \u00a0On this occasion we were carrying the most recent list of Pakistani civilians killed by drones (a Lockheed Martin product) and ended up reading this list to the security forces that blocked our way. These peaceful actions usually result in arrest, and I was one of ten arrested today while on my knees in the Lockheed Martin driveway.<\/p>\n<p>Search this blog for relevant information about previous arrests.\u00a0 I feel called to faithfulness in the spirit of the original Plowshares Eight (including Dan and Phil Berrigan), who were arrested at this same facility in 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several years I have\u00a0joined members of the Brandywine Peace Community at Good Friday demonstrations outside the Lockheed Martin facility in King of Prussia, PA. Lockheed Martin is the world\u2019s largest war profiteer and nuclear weapons manufacturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love","category-peace","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}