Carmen Trotta is a pacifist and a member of the

Catholic Worker Movement The Catholic Worker Movement is a collection of autonomous communities of Catholics and their associates founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in the United States in 1933. Its aim is to "live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus ...

, Trotta has been an opponent of the war in Iraq. He has been an associate editor of the

Catholic Worker ''Catholic Worker'' is a newspaper published seven times a year by the flagship Catholic Worker community in New York City. The newspaper was started by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin to make people aware of church teaching on social justice. His ...

, and has served on the executive committee of the

War Resisters League The War Resisters League (WRL) is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States. History Founded in 1923 by men and women who had opposed World War I, it is a section of the London-based War Resisters' International. It continues ...

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 The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is an ongoing international counterterrorism military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks. The main targets of the campaign are militant ...

. 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. He was a founding member of Witness Against Torture, 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

Kings Bay Plowshares

On April 4, 2018, he took part in the Kings Bay Plowshares action.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Trotta, Carmen American Christian pacifists Catholic Workers American anti–Iraq War activists Grinnell College alumni 1963 births Living people American human rights activists War Resisters League activists Catholic pacifists