Join Patrick O’Neill for Kings for Bay Plowshares Action and Hope. Learn more about the action, the trial, and get an update after Fr. Steve Kelly’s and Patrick’s sentencing (October 15th and 16th).
Patrick is the father of six daughters and two sons, and grandfather of two. With his wife, Mary Rider, he cofounded the Fr. Charlie Mulholland Catholic Worker House in Garner, N.C. in 1991, an intentional, pacifist, Christian community that works to uphold the Consistent Ethic of Life.
In addition to Catholic Worker responsibilities, Mary is a social worker and Patrick am a journalist. As Catholics, they try to put into practice God’s call to Love One Another. Their peacemaking efforts include extensive work opposing nuclear weapons, working for abolition of the death penalty, supporting immigrants, participating in the N.C.-based Moral Monday Movement, the new Poor People’s Campaign, Black Lives Matter and other anti-oppression and anti-racism efforts. Mary and Patrick both participate in nonviolent direct action as a tactic for justice. Mary has been jailed three times and Patrick have spent more than two years in jail and prison for his peace work.
On April 4, 2018 (the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination), Patrick and six other activists entered the King’s Bay naval base to symbolically disarm the nuclear submarines based there. Read more about the action at the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 web site. After spending 7 weeks in jail and then the remainder of time since June 2018 under home confinement, Patrick was sentenced on October 16, 2020 to a fourteen month sentence.
Bernadette Naro is the daughter of KBP7 co-defendant, Patrick O’Neill. She grew up in the Fr. Charlie Mulholland Catholic Worker House in Raleigh, NC She has her Masters in Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and has worked for over 7 years as a high school teacher and Campus Minister. She has educated and organized students to confront torture, war, racial injustice, immigrant detention, and hunger among other peace and justice concerns. Bernadette will be join the webinar and share her reflections on KBP7 and her statement at the sentencing.
The webinar was Sunday October 25, 2020 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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