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Celebrating Sister Ardeth Platte, anti-nuclear activist and 'peacemaker in a hostile world'

  • Written by Carole Sargent, Faculty Director, Office of Scholarly Publications, Georgetown University
imageSister Ardeth Platte, wearing black to honor the international Women in Black movement, being hugged by a supporter ahead of being sentenced in 2003.AP Photo/David Zalubowski

To Sister Ardeth Platte, who died on Sept. 30 at 84, antinuclear activism was a form of public worship.

Explaining to a federal judge in 2002 how she – alongside protest...

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