Rrigan has dieat the a of 94 along with his late brother phil, he played in his terminal role in inspiring the antiwar and antidraft movement during the late 1960s. He became the first Catholic Priest to land on the fbis most wanted list. Father berrigan once said he a been arrested more times than he remembers, but if your times than he should have. , and sixdan, phil others broke into the ge nuclear theile plant, launching plowshares movement. Cracked the weapon. It was very fragile. It was made to withstand the heat of reentry into the atmosphere from outer space, so it was like eggshell. We had taken as our model, the great statement of isaiah. Amy today, father dan berrigan in his own words. We will also speak to his knees Frida Berrigan, his former attorney bill quigley here new orleans, fellow priest father close friend dans the Actor Martin Sheen. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In iraq, hundreds of protesters have left baghdads heavily fortified green zone after taking over the Parliament Building saturday and staging an overnight occupation of celebration square. It was the latest in a growing number of protests demanding and end to corruption in the appointment of new officials to parliament. Before the protesters withdrew, spokeswoman threatened future demonstrations if the changes dont occur. If this demand is not met, the people would then use all legitimate means, beginning with storming the headquarters of the three executive branches and going on strike. Amy meanwhile, 32 people died in the iraqi city of samawa sunday after isil militants carried out two suicide bomb attacks. The pentagon has released its report on the u. S. Militarys bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in kunduz, afghanistan, last year. The attack killed 42 people, including patients and staff. The report claims that the bombing was a mistake caused by human errors andquipment failures. The head of Central Command general joseph vortel said the pentagon does not consider it a war crime. The fact that this was unintentional, and unintentional action takes it out of the realm of actually being a deliberate war crime against persons or protected locations. That is the principle reason why we do not consider this to be a war crime. Amy a number of people disputed general votels argument, including Patricia Grossman of human rights watch, who tweeted it is established principle of customary International Law that war crimes can be committed through recklessness. 16 u. S. Officers have received administrative discipline, but none face criminal charges. Ctors wiout bords, amnes inteational and othersave , lled foan independent investigation. Secretary of state john kerry is in geneva today to try to reestablish the partial ceasefire in syria. At least 250 people have died in aleppo during more than a week of bombing by the syrian regime, including the bombing of a Doctors Without Borderssupported hospital that killed as many as 50 people, including doctors and patients. Puerto rico is slated to miss its biggest Debt Repayment thus far after governor Alejandro Garcia padilla declared a moratorium on a more than 400 million payment due today. Padilla spoke out sunday. We have asked congress over and over again to approve the measures so that we can restructure our debts. We dont want to have a bailout and we have not been offered a bailout. What we want is a restructuring process that will not cause the United States anything. We simply need legal tools that will allow us to confront this crisis and are sure that puerto rico will have a viable future. Amy the cia has sparked widespread criticism by marking the fiveYear Anniversary of the u. S. Killing of Osama Bin Laden by livetweeting the operation as if in real time. For six hours sunday, the cia tweeted playbyplay details of the raid on bin ladens hideout in the pakistani city of abbottabad. The reaction on twitter was overwhelmingly negative, with people calling the move grotesque and embarrassing. The Obama Administration has been accused of giving a false account of the hunting and killing of Osama Bin Laden. Greenpeace has leaked 240 pages of the latest negotiating text of a trade deal between the u. S. And the European Union known as ttip. Greenpeace says the documents shows u. S. Is pressuring European Countries to loosen environmental and consumer protection, and include provisions to give corporations such as nestle and cocacola more power during trade talks. In los angeles, a top Sheriffs Department official has resigned after the Los Angeles Times published a series of racist and sexist emails hed sent. Tom angel was the chief of staff to Los Angeles County sheriff mcdonnell. His published emails showed hed made frequent derogatory jokes about muslims, catholics, latinos, africanamericans and women during his previous job working for the Burbank Police department. In louisiana, gary tyler has walked free from the angola prison after serving 41 years for a murder many believe he did not commit. Tyler, who is africanamerican has been jailed since he was 16 , years old after an allwhite jury convicted him based entirely on the statements of four witnesses who later recanted their testimony. His case has been called one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the modern history of the United States. Sunday was may day, and workers took to the streets in dozens of cities across the world, including in havana, paris, santiago, istanbul, seoul, and across the United States. In los angeles, organizers marked the 10 Year Anniversary of the historic 2006 may day, when 1. 5 Million People marched for immigrant rights by demonstrating against donald trump. This is organizer juan jose gutierrez. He is threatened, should he become president of the United States, in his first 18 months in office, he intends to support all 11 million undocumented persons in the United States. We dont take that lightly. We dont think he is the clown that everybody said he was. This is a very dangerous individual, and we must stop him. Berrigan died just short of his 94th birthday. He was a playwright and lifelong resister to what he called American Military imperialism. We will spend the hour remembering his life and legacy. And democracy now cohost Juan Gonzalez has penned his final column for the new york daily news, where hes worked for 29 years. Over the years juan has used his , column to break major corruption scandals and coverups, including the attempt to conceal the Health Impacts of the toxic dust released on 9 11. In his signoff, juan wrote i opted to become a voice from another part of urban america. Not writing about outcast neighborhoods, but from them. Not simply to entertain, but to change. Not after the fact, but before it, when coverage could still make a difference. Those the words of Juan Gonzalez in his last column for new york daily news. But he stays with us at his other dn, that is democracy now and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from new orleans. We spend the hour remembering the life and legacy of the legendary antiwar priest father dan berrigan. He died on saturday just short of his 95th birthday. Berrigan was a poet, pacifist, educator, social activist, playwright and lifelong resister , to what he called American Military imperialism. Along with his late brother, phil, dan berrigan played an instrumental role in inspiring the antiwar and antidraft movement during the late 1960s as well as the movement against Nuclear Weapons. In the early 1970s, he became the Catholic Priest to land on first the fbis most wanted list. Georgetown University Theology professor Chester Gillis once said of father berrigan, if you were to identify catholic prophets in the 20th century, hed be right there with dorothy day or thomas merton. In early 1968, father Daniel Berrigan made International Headlines when he traveled to North Vietnam with historian howard zinn to bring home three u. S. Prisoners of war. In the documentary holy outlaw, father dan recalled spending time in vietnamese shelters while being bombed by u. S. Jet so were inhis slter anunexpectedly came out three childr, whwere crohing in the, too, ainst al expections. Anone of t elder childre feedinrice to e of the younger es. I wrotthis lite verse thin a couple of days andried to read it ter at o trial lled chdren in e shelte [captiing madeossible democracy now ] imine three of them ithose suival orats with inhe rats deathwaited tre at th end. And must havin the cturies boneyardalf of fsh and be in my ms. I cked up e lt little, a boy. Sier calmly eding hias we imb down in my arm fallingn a momes grac assigne of all my reborn amy on may 17, 1968, father dan berrigan, his brother phil, and seven others took 378 draft files from the draft board in catonsville, maryland. Then in the parking lot of the draft bod officethe activis set thdraft rerds on firusing homade napm to protest e vietnawar. They bece known the tonsvillnine. The act civil dobedienc was chrocled in e 2013 documenty, hit stay a histy of fai and restance. This begins with Daniel Berrigan. We make our prayer in the name of peace and decency in unity and love. People throughout the world these files are also napalm. Amen. Napalm, which was made from information from the formula in the United States special forces handbook published by the school of special warfare of the United States. We all had a hand in making the napalm that was used here today. Napalm is a very old weapon. It goes back. A really came to public attention during the war in vietnam. Pictures of napalmed people. That was a quintessential civil of the war, burning babies literally in vietnam. That is what we wanted to, not with something symbolic and something that would destroy the files. We feel that as individuals, were going to have to speak out in the name of catholicism and christianity. And we hope our actions to inspire other people who have christian principles were a fate similar to christianity will act accordingly to stop the terrible destruction america is wreaking on the whole world. We regret, all of us, being inconvenienced. Was sincerely hope we did not injure anyone. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We have chosen to be powerless criminals in a time of criminal byhave chosen to be branded we crimina. Amy fher berran and oer members the catsville ne re arresd at thepot. E draft ard raid reinvigoted the tiwar moveme by insping over00 simir acts oprotest. It ao shook e foundaon of the aditionund cathic church. In 10, fatheberriganpent fouronths ling underound a fugite from t fbi. While his conviction was under appeal. Was inng the time he hidi, father berrigan changed his location often. He stayed with 37 different families intent eastern and midwestern cities in 10 eastn the a midwestern cities. What is it like to be underground . It looks useful enough for the movement to go on forever. He was everywhere. Available to everyone except the fbi. Amy that is liz mcalister, Phil Berrigans wife. That is from the film hit , stay. The berrigan, brothers and six others broke into the Nuclear Facility in king of prussia, pennsylvania. The activists hammered Nuclear Nuclear warhead nose cones and poured blood onto documents and files. They were arrested and charged with over 10 different felony and misdemeanor counts. They became know as the plowshares eight. I want to turn to a clip from the from the film, in the king of prussia. This scene features dan berrigan reciting what he told the judge and jury during the trial. You have heard about hammers and blood in this room. These are the hammers of hell. These are the hammers that will break the world. Flingare the hammers that the end of the world. The judge knows it. The prosecutor knows it. We have seen people walk away from these things. We have seen them disclaim them. We have seen them say they are not responsible for them. We have seen all sorts of language, like a dance of death. They are murderers. He knows it. He knows it. You must know it. We ate en trying to take responsibility for these things. To call them by their right. Ames, which is murderers debt. Genocide, the end of the world. Their properties is known to the judge and the prosecutor and to yo weould likyou to know the name of our crime. We would like to assume responsibility for a world, for children, for the future. And if that is a crime, then it is quite clear that we belong in their jails. Where they will long is something else. But in the name of all the eight i would ke to lee with you , friends and jurors, that great and noble word, which is our crime, responsibility. Amy an excerpt from the film in the king of prussia directed by emile de antonio. In the film, the actor martin in thelayed the judge trial. Martin sheen became Close Friends with father dan berrigan. On sunday after he learned of Dan Berrigans death, he offered these thoughts on his passing before he went into prison for the catonsville nine action, he gave a series of talks. He would surface, you know, he was underground and he would surface every now and then. He was holding a kind of a press conference. He was just about to be captured and sent away. Thatne was advocating all of us should risk arrest and prison if we really wanted to stop this war because that is what the government was doing with young mens lives, so we had to step up. And someone in the of in said, well, fine, father berrigan, it is all well and you to advocate going to prison, you dont have any children. What about us . We have children . What is what happened to our children if we go to prison . And dance at, what is going to happen to them if you dont . And that had a most profound effect on me. I thought, oh, my gosh, we are called to nonviolent resistance that is very costly. And if what we believe does not cost us something, then were left to question its value. Dan forl i did not join protest until 1986. I was in new york doing a film and at a day off. I heard about a demonstration over at 42nd street, trying to block the entrance to the mcgrawhill building where they were planning basically to place Nuclear Weapons in outer space. This was the socalled strategic plan, star wars. Andnt to that demonstration dan was there. Arrest for ast noble cause, and it was the happiest day of my life. I will never forget it was so disarming. Dan was kind of leading the. Roup in prayer and singing the police finally arrived and said, come on, you have two minutes to disperse. And then said to the presiding officer, come on, officer, you believe in this cause. Get in here and join us. And he backed away said, no, no, father, please. [laughter] he made it so human, so down to earth, that the world has lost a Great Peacemaker and and suchian and poet an inspiration and such, you know, hard to describe the withoute has had becoming i dont know. It is like youre describing someone that could not possibly have lived, and yet we knew him and loved him and worked with him and celebrated with him. And in a few days, we are going to gather to celebrate his life and to send him on his way. Any code that is the Actor Martin Sheen remembering his dear friend father dan berrigan who died on saturday, just shy of his 95th day. We will hear father dan in his own words in a minute. [music break] amy dar williams, i had no right. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from new orleans and new york. The legendary antiwar priest, activist, and poet father Daniel Berrigan has died at the age of 94. Today we are remembering his life and legacy. Over the past 20 years, father dan appeared on democracy now many times. In 2002, he joined us for a fourhour special marking the First Anniversary of the september 11 attacks. And anniversary like this induces silence rather than a lot of words, but i will try. A few minutes after this horrid event a year ago, the phone rang. I was working at something. And a friend from North Carolina said, something terrible is happening in new york city. I said, what . Was, ifirst reaction guess, right out of the gut rather than the heart, and i blurted into the phone, so its come home at last. Super the and tears came later, but that was the beginning sympathy and tears came later, but that was the beginning. That came from a very deep immersion in what i might call a hyphenated reality of america and the world. I was under american bombs in 1968. We spent almost every night, howard