Biography
Dorothy Day/New Haven Catholic Worker and chronicler of the movement. He took part in the 1982 Trident Nein action (USS Florida, Electric Boat, Groton, CT) and the 1989 Thames River Plowshares (New London, CT).
Art Laffin is the principal chronicler of the Plowshares movement, co-editor with Sr. Anne Montgomery of two editions of "Swords Into Plowshares: Nonviolent Direct Action for Disarmament" (Harper & Row 1987; Fortkamp 1996). He was a member of the Covenant Peace Community in New Haven from 1978 to 1990 before joining the Olive Branch Catholic Worker in DC in 1990 and the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker in 1994, where he still lives with his wife and son. He is the author of a new edition of "The Risk of the Cross: Living Gospel Nonviolence in the Nuclear Age" and has been imprisoned for two Plowshares actions.
