We are a group of twenty-five U.S. Christians following the nonviolent tradition of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker. As a "work of mercy" in keeping with our faith, we seek to visit the hundreds of detainees who have been held for more than three years under horrific conditions by the U.S. government. Read our group statement.

Jacqueline Allen-Doucot

A member of the Hartford Catholic Worker community, Jackie has attempted to do the works of mercy on a daily basis in a personal way for the last thirteen years. She is married to Chris Doucot and mom to sons Micah (12) and Ammon (11). She does not want her children to grow up in a country that legitimizes the use of torture... and would much rather be staying home making Christmas gifts and tutoring bratty children.

Gary Ashbeck

Gary is a member of the Jonah House community in Baltimore and Military Families Speak Out. A native of Wisconsin, he has been active against war and with issues of environmental and social justice.

Frida Berrigan

Frida serves on the Board of the War Resisters League. A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, for the last six years Frida has worked with the World Policy Institute, a progressive think-tank based at the New School University. Frida is also a contributing editor to In These Times magazine. She and her partner Ian Marvy, an urban farmer working with young people, live in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Anna Brown

Anna teaches political science and directs the Social Justice Program at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, NJ.

Dana M. Brown

Dana is the Director of the Committee on US/Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) in Ithaca, NY, an organization dedicated to education and activism for justice and peace in the Americas. She has lived, worked and studied in Mexico, Guatemala and Chile and next year will begin a Masters in Peace Studies in Argentina.

Danny Burns

Born in Binghamton, NY to a Irish Catholic family, Danny was the tenth of twelve children. He worked for twenty years in the film industry and is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA), as an assistant director. With his wife Jessica Stewart and their two sons Finian (2) and Francis (4 months), Danny belongs to the Ithaca Catholic Worker. He has participated in many protests against war and traveled to Iraq in November and December of 2003, promoting peace and reconciliation as part of a delegation of the Christian Peacemaker Teams.

Mark Colville

Mark, 44, is a father of five children from New Haven, Connecticut. He and his wife, Luz, have been married for fifteen years and co-founded the Amistad Catholic Worker Community in New Haven in 1994.

Susan Crane

Susan lives at Jonah House in Baltimore, a faith-based community that speaks up against the warmaking of our country. A mother with two adult sons, Susan is a former teacher and a fulltime peacemaker. Susan wants the prisoners at Guantanamo to know that people care about them.

Amanda W. Daloisio

Amanda has lived with her husband Matthew at the New York Catholic Worker since August 2002. She is currently training to be a Doula in order to provide non-medical assistance to pregnant women during labor and delivery. She holds degrees from Loyola College in Maryland and Harvard Divinity School and is an associate editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper.

Matthew W. Daloisio

Matthew has lived with his wife Amanda at the New York Catholic Worker since August 2002. After graduating Loyola College in Maryland, Matthew worked with AIDS advocacy organizations in Boston, MA and then lived at Haley House, the Catholic Worker in Boston. He currently works with the GI Rights hotline, the War Resisters League, and the Kairos Community in NYC and is an associate editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper.

Thomas James Feagley

An artist and poet, Thomas, age 59, works with an ecumenical ministry outside of Boston, MA, offering free meals and emergency pantry food, clothing, furniture to people in need.

Clare Grady

Clare and her husband Paul Sayvetz live in Ithaca, NY with their two beautiful teenage daughters, Leah and Teresa Rose. For most of the past 17 years, Clare has been the kitchen coordinator at Loaves and Fishes Community Kitchen, a ministry that feeds the hungry not only with bread but with acceptance, love and fellowship. She has attended mass at Immaculate Conception Church for thirteen years and is a member of the Ithaca Catholic worker, where we support each other in seeking to live non-violently within our community and within our world.

Teresa Grady

Teresa, a licensed massage therapist, and her 16 year old son Michael live in Ithaca, NY, where she also teaches Latin dance in Cornell's Physical Education Department. A member of the Ithaca Catholic Worker community, Theresa also gives hospitality to pregnant women in need of physical, economic and emotional support. Theresa is a parishioner of Immaculate Conception Church and coaches girls basketball at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School.

Reverend Stephen M. Kelly, S.J.

Father Kelly is a Jesuit Priest who worked with the Jesuit Refugee service in Central America for many years. Plowshares actions have brought him into contact with many in prisons who have suffered under U.S. hegemonic policies. In an attempt to dedicate himself to conversion of nuclear weapons in the Isaiah biblical prophetic vision, he sees a connection between the rationale to torture alleged enemies and the blatant incineration of civilians.

Dina Khorasanee

Dina is a Canadian activist living in Argentina and part of the Movement of Unemployed Workers of Solano (a piquetero movement in the outskirts of Buenos Aires), fighting for dignity, justice and social change.

Art Laffin

Art has been active in nonviolence work for peace, justice and human rights for over 25 years. He and his wife, Colleen McCarthy, are members of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker in Washington, DC. He is co-editor with Sr. Anne Montgomery of the book Swords Into Plowshares .

Scott Langley

Scott works against prisoner executions full-time as a part of the Catholic Worker and as a volunteer with Amnesty International. Scott is also a free-lance photojournalist. He is originally from Fort Worth, Texas and currently lives at the Raleigh Catholic Worker in North Carolina with his wife, Sheila Stumph.

Sr. Anne Montgomery

A 79 year-old Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ), Sister Anne has more than 40 years teaching experience. A plowshares activist, Anne has been to prison repeatedly for “beating swords into plowshares.” For the last ten years, she is a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams for 10 years, serving in Palestine and Iraq. She first went to Iraq as part of the Gulf Peace Team during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and returned numerous times between May 2003 and April 2005. During most of that time the team's focus was working with Iraqi families to get information about loved ones held in U.S. detention camps, as well as documenting abuses and violations of the Geneva Conventions.

Grace Ritter

Grace lives in Ithaca, NY. She is a non-violence trainer and is involved with groups working for peace in the Middle East. Grace is 24 years old.

Patricia Santoro

Patricia teaches Spanish and co-moderates the Pax Christi Social Justice Community at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, NJ.

Bill Streit

Bill lives at the Little Flower Catholic Worker Farm with his wife Sue Frankel, and three children- Isaac (12), Anna (11) and Gaby (8). With his community, Bill is seeking to build the alternative vision of the peaceable kingdom. Little Flower members are building their own homes, growing their food and participating in acts of justice and resistance. A married Catholic priest, Bill attended seminary at Christ the King near Buffalo, NY after graduating from the University of Scranton.

Sheila Stumph

Sheila lives in the Raleigh Catholic Worker in North Carolina with her husband, Scott Langley. She works toward the abolition of the death penalty, an end to war and the creation of a more just, peaceful world. The Raleigh Catholic Worker provides hospitality for people visiting loved ones on North Carolina's death row.

Tanya Theriault

Tanya has lived at the New York Catholic Worker for eight years. Raised in Rumford, Maine and a graduate of Boston College, Tanya is trained as an E.M.T. and is an associate editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper.

Carmen Trotta

Carmen has worked full time in the Catholic Worker movement since his graduation from Grinnell College in 1984. After brief stints at the Des Moines, Iowa Catholic Worker and Casa de la Paz, on Long Island, he has been a permanent fixture in the New York community for the past 16 years. An associate editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper, Carmen has organized and participated in numerous acts of protest and civil disobedience against U.S. militarism. He served for 3 years as an Executive Committee member of the War Resisters League, during which time he helped organize the April 20, 2002 march on Washington, which brought more than 200,000 people to D.C. to oppose the “War on Terror.”

Matthew Vogel

Matthew has lived at the New York Catholic Worker for four years. A native of Lansing, Michigan and a graduate of Harvard College, he is an associate editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper.