Historical documents

Plowshares Movement Slideshow

Plowshares actions take their name from Isaiah 2:4: “They shall beat swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more.”

Each action community, grounded in prayer, seeks to disarm a weapon or delivery system for a nuclear weapon or weapon of mass destruction.

The first plowshares action was September 1980 at the General Electric plant in King of Prussia, PA. Eight people, including Philip Berrigan, hammered and poured their blood on the Mark 12A nuclear missile components. Since then there have been more than 100 plowshares actions.

The video below gives a brief plowshares chronology, from 1980 to 2009.

(To watch the same slideshow at a slower pace, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqzsL-Z2kI4.)