Carmen Trotta Explained

Carmen Trotta
Birth Date:	9 November 1962
Education:	Grinnell College
Employer:	Catholic Worker
Occupation:	associate editor

Carmen Trotta is a pacifist and a member of the Catholic Worker Movement,^[1] Trotta has been an opponent of the war in Iraq.^[2] He has been an associate editor of the Catholic Worker, and has served on the executive committee of the War Resisters League.

Education

Trotta graduated from Grinnell College in 1984.

Pacifist and human rights actions

Trotta helped organize the April 20, 2002 march on Washington to oppose the War on Terror.

On May 30, 2008, he was sentenced to ten days in jail for protesting abuses at Guantanamo in front of the U.S Supreme Court.^[3]

He was a founding member of Witness Against Torture,^[4] and as a member of that group, he was the first person arrested in the "100 Days Campaign" protest at the White House, against the prison at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp^{[5] [6]}

Kings Bay Plowshares

On April 4, 2018, he took part in the Kings Bay Plowshares action.^[7]

Bibliography

• Book: Anna J.. Brown. Witness Against Torture : the campaign to shut down Guantánamo. November 18, 2008. Yellow Bike Press. 978-1-60725-507-9. 428980304.

Notes and References

1. Elie . Paul . Paul Elie. The Patron Saint of Paradox . November 8 . The New York Times . November 8, 1998 . April 28, 2010 .
2. O'Grady . Jim . Civil Disobedience Keeps Its Allure; Only the Wars and Causes Change . newspaper article . 2008-06-22 . The New York Times . January 27, 2002.
3. Web site: Sadowski . Dennis . Eleven Activists Sent to Jail for Demonstrating at U.S. Supreme Court . . 2008-06-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080729003311/http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802944.htm . July 29, 2008 . dead .
4. Book: Anna J.. Brown . Witness Against Torture : the campaign to shut down Guantánamo . November 18, 2008 . Yellow Bike Press . 978-1-60725-507-9 . 428980304 . edited by Anna J. Brown .
5. Web site: Anti-torture Protestors Arrested in Droves Outside the White House . Arthur Delaney . April 30, 2009. Huffington Post. December 17, 2009.
6. Book: The United States and torture : interrogation, incarceration, and abuse. registration. 2012. New York University Press. Cohn, Marjorie, 1948-. 9780814769829. New York. 778271101.
7. Web site: 2019-11-20. Explainer: Who are the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, the Catholics convicted of protesting nuclear weapons?. 2020-12-29. America Magazine. en.