The Power of Symbol: Baltimore Activism Panel at University of Baltimore
Spotlight UB brought a panel of local peace activists to the University of Baltimore to discuss their work and legacy.
Spotlight UB, the University of Baltimore's performing arts series, sponsored a civil disobedience panel prior to the Feb. 10 performance of their winter show, Daniel Berrigan's The Trial of the Catonsville Nine. The panelists were Baltimore Four member and poet Dave Eberhardt, film historian and activist George Figgs, Jonah House founder Elizabeth McAlister, the Baltimore Non-Violence Center's Max Obuzewski and filmmaker Joe Tropea. Dr. Alfred Guy of the Hoffberger Institute of Business Ethics acted as moderator for the panel. By way of context, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine is a play about the trial of nine Catholic war protesters, two of them priests, who burned nearly 400 draft cards with napalm in the parking lot of a Catonsville …
