Sister Megan Rice

Megan Rice joined us for the first time. She’s an anti-nuclear activist and Roman Catholic nun.On July 28, 2012, Rice, at 82 years old, and two fellow activists (Michael R. Walli, 63, and Gregory I. Boertje-Obed, 57) broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and hung banners and splashed blood on the outside of the heavily guarded Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility there.

She talked about her time in jail, the upcoming attempt to charger her with sabotage, and her conviction that whatever sacrifice she ends up making to stand up for her core beliefs is not only worth it but what she feels compelled to do by her faith.

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Sherwood Ross

Monthly Columnist Sherwood Ross welcomed the new year with a discussion of anti-Semitism, starting with a focus on the situation in Russia when Hitler’s armies were advancing on Moscow. He used a poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko to illustrate his point.

Sherwood continued by noting the situation in America today: witness the “0/11 dancing rabbis” story and the accusation that Jewish bankers wanted the recession so that they could make more money and gain property.

He closed with an analysis of anti-Semitism in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, as an example of a highly intelligent and talented person who yet exhibited a degree of racial or religious bias…but who also wrote some great poetry.