Bentari Photos
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The maypole of Merrymount: Thomas Morton’s wild rite in 1627 at what is now Quincy, MA. Puritans exiled Morton but did not extinguish our Joy of Spring.
Something wrong with the scales of justice—they tip in favor of the rich and powerful, while many are invisible to the blind eye of Justice.
Amy Goodman—her partner witnessed her running into bullet-fire when everyone else ran away. She hosts the war & peace report on “Democracy Now!” She speaks truth to power, seeks ju
Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan on the cover of Time Magazine, 1/25/1975, (credit Jim Sharpe); both priests spent years in jail to protest war and nuclear bombs.
"Swords into Plowshares" Sculpture by Evgeniy Vuchetich in the United Nations Art Collection, photo by Neptuul (Isaiah 2:3-4 inspired the Berrigans & the Plowshare 8)
Father Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016): believed in the total inability of violence to change anything for the better.
Photo: by Caitlin Brown, Strawberry Moon (full moon on summer solstice) taken from our garage roof, 6/20/2016
Hunter's Point in 1952. Dad was then a lieutenant and the XO on an LST during the Korean War. Mom brought big brother and me to see him while the ship was in for repairs.
Gibbous: 1a: marked by convexity or swelling b: (of the moon or a planet) seen with more than half but not all of the apparent disk 2: having a hump: humpbacked
“This enhanced image of the Moon was taken with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera using two of the National Science Foundation's telescopes located at Kitt Peak National Observatory near 
Now in 2016, 43-years after the coup d’état in Chile, is justice still at the doorstep for Victor Jara’s accused assassin Pedro Barrientos? Jara wrote and sang "The Right to Live i
“But I know the golden horses gallop there, their manes like tongues of fire, their legs stretched out with the pure joy of running, their hooves unafraid of damning the dirt.” (Re
Rose Lokissim (1955-1986): She was one of the first women in Chad to become an elite soldier. As a prisoner under the Hissène Habré regime, she remained strong, true and cheerful u
Hillary Rodham Clinton: first lady, senator, U.S. secretary of state—and the first woman to be nominated as a major party candidate for President of the United States
Julie Ward Howe (1819-1910): She was an abolitionist. She wrote the words to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” She was a suffragette. She was a woman of consequence and achievemen