The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm.The Catholic activists involved in this protest against the war included Daniel and Philip Berrigan - all were found guilt of destroying government property and sentenced to three years in jail

Dan Berrigan fled, and later turned himself in. The Berrigans and their colleagues went on to lives spent struggling against war, poverty, and injustice

And The Trial of the Catonsville Nine became a powerful expression of the conflicts between conscience and conduct, power and justice, law and morality

Drawing on court transcripts, Berrigan wrote a dramatic account of the trial and the issues it so vividly embodied. The result is a landmark work of art that been performed frequently over the past thirty-five years, both as a piece of theater and as a motion picture

This new edition includes Berrigan's original introduction, and additional materials by Robin Anderson and James Marsh that bring its ideas and themes up to date in the context of the war in Iraq