Pax Christi Minnesota

Reflection on the peaceful protest at the 2008 Republican Convention
By Steve Clemens
Sunday August 31, 2008 saw the first arrests of peaceful protestors at the Republican National Convention held in St. Paul, MN. As plans began to be announced for scheduled protest marches and rallies against the on-going war on Iraq and “against the Republican agenda”, [...]

Personal Statement on Why I Risk Arrest at the Republican National Convention
by Steve Clemens, August 31, 2008
This immoral and illegal war against the peoples of Iraq must stop now!
I am required by the Nuremberg Principles to not be complicit with this war of aggression that the UN Charter calls a grave war crime.
I have written [...]

Hire Your Own Cop!
By Steve Clemens. June 2008
For the past twelve years, AlliantACTION has vigiled in front of Alliant Techsystems, Minnesota’s largest arms merchant. After being spun off from Honeywell who grew tired of the protests from the Honeywell Project, Alliant Techsystems, or ATK as it is known by their company logo and in the [...]

Reintroducing JFK: Seeing Our Slain President Through a New Lens
by Steve Clemens
Review of James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. 2008)
I had just turned 13 the month before the startling news was broadcast into my 8th grade classroom: President John F. Kennedy was shot [...]

Thoughts from Tim Haskamp…
Thomas Merton, in his book Peace in the Post-Christian Era, speaks of the crisis of the spirit and the “moral upheaval of the human race that has lost its religious and cultural roots.” In our desire to destroy evil, we search for a simple solution and suddenly become that which we are [...]