Join a conversation with documentary film-maker Sue Hagedorn and Carla Berrigan, a niece of Father Dan Berrigan, a prominent peace activist and Jesuit priest.

Father Dan Berrigan was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for evading arrest for burning draft files. “Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.” Dan was captured on Block Island in August 1970.

After being imprisoned in Danbury, Connecticut, Dan’s Block Island friends built him a simple cottage off Southeast Road. Dan spent many years rooted on Block Island, advocating non-violent resistance, writing poetry, supporting the needy, and befriending many of us.

Dan’s values represent those declared in the Declaration of Independence — equality, liberty, and the duty to resist tyranny. More than 60 years after his arrest and 250 years since the birth of the United States, what would Dan think of America and Block Island? What would Dan advocate now?