Among the heavily censored documents that Sr. Ardeth Platte and Sr. Carol Collins received from the Maryland State police was one that identifies their activities the week after the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan in October 2001.The two Dominican nuns, who were incorrectly identified as involved in terrorism during an overzealous 14-month Maryland state police surveillance in 2005 and 2006, have spent more than 30 years opposing U.S. militarism, particularly the development of nuclear weapons.
But in 2001 - well before any surveillance by Maryland state police - they had appeared outside the White House on October 8, the day after the Afghanistan invasion began, and then four days later at the National Security Agency.
Welcome to a week in the life of Sisters Platte and Collins.
The NSA is one of their regular stops, usually a rally and protest on the Fourth of July, but in 2001 they showed up that day in October to protest the bombing of Afghanistan.
They made it past the first security checkpoint to a parking lot before security caught up to them.
Platte and Collins spilled some of their own blood, saying, "The blood of innocents is shed with the participation of this agency."
Theirs is a life of symbols and symbolic acts aimed at some of the most powerful agents on the planet.
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