Biography
Father Frank Cordaro is a former Catholic priest, longtime Des Moines Catholic Worker, and Plowshares activist who has been arrested more than 100 times across his life. On August 6, 1998 — the Hiroshima anniversary — he and three others carried out the Minuteman III Plowshares disarmament action at a North Dakota intercontinental ballistic missile silo. He was convicted and served multiple federal sentences for that and many subsequent actions including SOA Watch line-crossings and STRATCOM/Offutt AFB protests.
From a second record of the same person, merged here so nothing is lost:
Des Moines Catholic Worker and Plowshares peace activist arrested repeatedly over decades for nonviolent disarmament actions against nuclear weapons, including SAC headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base. Convicted multiple times of federal trespass and related charges. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.
