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Frida Berrigan

Frida Berrigan is the author of It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood. She is a TomDispatch regular and writes the Little Insurrections column for WagingNonviolence.Org. She has three children and lives in New London, Connecticut, where she is a gardener and community organizer.

The Long Haul

Or Living Through Pandemic-Plus

By Frida Berrigan On October 6, 2020On October 6, 2020

Sometimes We Can Make Our Own Hope 

Running for Office in the Age of Donald Trump and Climate Change 

By Frida Berrigan On January 28, 2020On January 28, 2020

Trumping the Future

Which Would Mean No Future for My Three Kids

By Frida Berrigan On October 3, 2019On October 3, 2019

Parenting the Climate-Change Generation

Or Will They Parent Us?

By Frida Berrigan On March 14, 2019On March 14, 2019

A Child at World’s End

A Mother Thinks About the Inheritance of Children

By Frida Berrigan On October 2, 2018On October 2, 2018

Gunning Down the Easter Bunny

The Weaponization of Everyday Life

By Frida Berrigan On April 15, 2018On April 16, 2018

“Do Kids Die, Mom?”

Facing the Future With Trepidation in the Age of Trump

By Frida Berrigan On January 7, 2018On January 7, 2018

Growing My Way Out of Dystopia

Can We Stop Feeling Quite So Helpless and Hopeless in a World on the Skids?

By Frida Berrigan On July 11, 2017On July 11, 2017

Loving America and Resisting Trump

The New Patriotism

By Frida Berrigan On February 16, 2017On February 16, 2017

“Pow, Pow, Yous Are Dead!”

Children, Toy Guns, and the Real Thing

By Frida Berrigan On July 31, 2016On August 2, 2016

Make Trump Great Again!

Taking The Donald to Toddler Town

By Frida Berrigan On April 12, 2016On April 12, 2016

Kids’ Questions on a Lockdown Planet

Thinking the Parentally Unthinkable 

By Frida Berrigan On December 22, 2015On December 23, 2015

Parenting on the Brink

Wrestling With Fears Too Big to Name

By Frida Berrigan On October 6, 2015On October 6, 2015

Uncle Pentagon

Growing Up in the Shadow of the American War State

By Frida Berrigan On March 10, 2015On March 11, 2015

Frida Berrigan, Pimping Weapons to the World

By Frida Berrigan On February 16, 2010On November 3, 2020

For the Sixty-Fourth Time: No More Nuclear War

Reflections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Our World

By Frida Berrigan On August 3, 2009On January 4, 2021

Frida Berrigan, Downloading Disaster

By Frida Berrigan On June 9, 2009On November 3, 2020

Frida Berrigan, How Shovel-Ready Is the Pentagon?

By Frida Berrigan On March 12, 2009On February 25, 2011

Frida Berrigan, Who Rules the Pentagon?

By Frida Berrigan On November 25, 2008On March 6, 2011

Frida Berrigan, The Pentagon Legacy of the MBA President

By Frida Berrigan On September 14, 2008On March 16, 2011

Frida Berrigan, The Pentagon Takes Over

By Frida Berrigan On May 27, 2008On June 15, 2010

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