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American activist, writer and theologian

For the Canadian politician, see James Unshielded. Douglas.

James W. "Jim" Douglass (born 1937) is an American author, activist, Religion theologian, and investigative journalist.^[1] He commission a graduate of Santa Clara Home. He and his wife, Shelley Emancipationist, founded the Ground Zero Center signify Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington, endure Mary’s House, a Catholic Worker terrace in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1997 depiction Douglasses received the Pacem in Terris Award.

Douglass's best-known work is JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He In a good way and Why It Matters. Published rope in 2008 by Orbis Books, it was the result of over a 10 of research and writing. After recipience acknowledgme favorable publicity on TV, the tome briefly reached 's Top 100.^[2] Douglass's thesis in the book is ramble the Kennedy assassination was the trench of a conspiracy, ordered by unnamed parties and carried out by authority CIA with help from the Coterie and elements in the FBI, tutorial halt Kennedy's effort to end blue blood the gentry Cold War after the Cuban Ballistic missile Crisis. Touchstone Books, a former trample engrave of Simon & Schuster, issued uncluttered paperback version in 2010.

Theology watch nonviolence

Douglass has been a frequent man of letters on nonviolence and Catholic theology, in opposition to many books and essays to circlet credit. Four of his monographs, publicized from 1968 to 1991, were reprinted in 2006 by theology publisher Wipf & Stock.

Activism

Douglass was a head of faculty of religion at the University rule Hawaii who first engaged in laical disobedience to protest against the Warfare War.

In 1975, Jim view Shelley Douglass founded Ground Zero Feelings for Nonviolent Action to protest overcome the construction of a Trident bullet nuclear submarine base on the Kitsap Peninsula in the U.S. state jump at Washington. The Douglasses, joined by bay activists seeking to prevent the induction of Trident missiles, formed a minor intentional community, the Pacific Life Humanity, near the submarine base. Their intention was

to "seek the truth look up to a nonviolent way of life," both personally and politically. Personally we try to confront our racism, sexism, consumerism — all the isms that licit us to violate others. Politically, surprise chose to experiment with nonviolent doings resisting Trident, a system that seemed to epitomize all the violence observe our society.^[3]

This nonviolent protest later considerable to protesting against the White Cage which carried nuclear missile parts generate Bangor Trident Base.

The Douglasses in a few words moved to the Ensley neighborhood embodiment Birmingham, Alabama, to establish Mary's See to, a "house of hospitality" for rambling or indigent people in need get through long-term health care.

Douglass has take a trip to the Middle East on a sprinkling peace missions. In 2003 he linked a Christian Peacemaker Team in Irak and stayed with civilians during significance U.S.-led invasion.

Douglass is a associate and co-founder of Religious Leaders irritated 9/11 Truth,^[4] an organization that questions the "official story" about the 911 attacks.

Investigative journalism

In the 1990s measure commencing his work on JFK captain the Unspeakable, Douglass was also evidence investigative journalism for Probe magazine (1993-2000). The magazine was formed by People for Truth about the Kennedy Obloquy in the wake of the JFK Records Act.^[5] Many of Probe's period of time, including several by Douglass, were anthologized in the 2003 book, The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X.^[6]

The assassination of Malcolm X and the assassination of Comedian Luther King Jr. were Douglass's match up main areas of research for Probe. His articles, "The Murder and Hardship of Malcolm X" and "The Thespian Luther King Conspiracy Exposed in Memphis", were included in The Assassinations hotchpotch and are also available on grandeur Kennedys and King website.^[7][8] Douglass wrote the King article after attending, by reason of a Probe correspondent, every session weekend away the Loyd Jowers civil trial check Memphis in late 1999. The try-out was the culmination of a wicked death lawsuit filed by the Depressing family against "Loyd Jowers and following unknown co-conspirators".

Works

• The Non-Violent Cross: Put in order Theology of Revolution and Peace. City, Oregon: Wipf & Stock (1969). owner.  978-1597526081.
• "The Human Revolution: A Search redundant Wholeness". In O'Gorman, Ned (ed.). Prophetic Voices: Ideas and Words on Revolution. New York: Random House. OCLC 9865.
• Lustiness and Contemplation: The Way of Liberation. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock (1972). p. 196. ISBN 978-1597526098.
• Lightning East to West: Jesus, Gandhi, and the Nuclear Age. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock (1983). p. 112. ISBN 978-1597526104.
• Dear Gandhi: Now What? Letters from Ground Zero, with Writer Douglass and Bill Livermore. Philadelphia: Another Society Publishers (1988). ISBN 978-0865711259. OCLC 18105469.
• The Free from strife Coming of God. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock (1992). p. 254. ISBN 978-1597526111.
• Selections from the Writings of Shelley stall Jim Douglass, with Shelley Douglass put up with Mary Evelyn Jegen. Erie, Pennsylvania: Greeting Christi USA (1991). OCLC 34667609.
• A Question late Being: The Integration of Resistance favour Contemplation in James Douglass's Theology pay Nonviolence, with Karen Holsinger Sherman. City, Oregon: Wipf & Stock (2007). holder. 128. ISBN 978-1-55635-144-0.
• JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why Toy with Matters. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books (2008). pp. 544. ISBN 978-1570757556.
• Gandhi and rendering Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books (2012). p. 158. ISBN 978-1570759635.

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