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Twenty-three activists, including Catholic Workers, gathered May 19 outside the Kansas City National Security Campus to protest nuclear weapons production. Six were arrested for trespass, including three Catholic Workers.
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Catholic Workers engaged in prayer, protest, and acts of civil disobedience in activities held during the Third Meeting of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) earlier this month. The activities included the Ash Wednesday arrest of 17 activists outside the U.S. Mission to the UN. Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, celebrated Mass and administered ashes to activists prior to their action on Ash Wednesday, according to Catholic Workers who attended.
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Archbishop John Wester celebrated Mass at Our Saviour Church on Tuesday, March 3, during the during the Third Meeting of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) at the United Nations. Opening with a quote from Dorothy Day’s scathing condemnation of the bombing of Hiroshima, Wester went on to reflect on the Beatitudes in light of efforts to abolish nuclear weapons.
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What do you get when you put a Catholic Worker community, a Socialist Collective, and a variety of people of goodwill in the same room together for a common cause?
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More than 15 people gathered outside the federal building in Norfolk on January 20 to protest the new administration’s immigration and asylum policies.
ByAnthony Lanzillo
CW climate activist Tone Lanzillo (Loaves and Fishes CW, Duluth, Minnesota) continues the story of his work organizing the Duluth community to address climate change. In this installment, he describes how the “Code Red” summer of 2021 led him to devote the rest of his time and energy to the Earth.
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Hildegard House Catholic Worker (Duluth, Minnesota) has taken up Garry Jones’ invitation to provide direct support for Palestinians living in Gaza.
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Marj Humphrey will return to Uganda and Kenya on a mission to promote restorative justice as a Maryknoll lay missioner. Humphrey was part of the New York Catholic Worker from 1976 to 1984, and served as editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper during part of that time. This article is reprinted with permission from Maryknoll Lay Missioners.
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Could direct cash aid from people in affluent countries bring relief to families under siege in Gaza? That’s the question driving musician Garry Jones, husband of Kate Hennessy (granddaughter of Dorothy Day), as he partners with Palestinian poet and journalist Yusuf El-Mbayed and Vermont videographer Michael Hanish to bring essentials like food, clean water, and small comforts to Gazans facing extreme deprivation. Working around restricted aid channels, Jones has launched a crowdfunding initiative to deliver critical funds directly to Gaza, providing a lifeline to El-Mbayed’s community relief projects. Their vision goes beyond immediate aid, hoping to create ongoing, meaningful connections between communities across borders.
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Cassandra Dixon is returning to Masafer-Yatta in the West Bank in November to help Palestinian families there. Read her letter to supporters and find out how you can help.
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The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker (Washington, D.C.) organized a vigil outside the annual Air Force Association (AFA) “Air-Space-Cyber Conference and Technology Exposition” in National Harbor, Maryland, on September 16. Here is a letter Art Laffin, of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, sent about the vigil. It is presented here unedited.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
Mark Colville was one of three Catholic Workers who traveled to the West Bank as part of a larger international, interreligious peace delegation at the end of August. Their mission was to provide a protective presence for the Palestinians living in the West Bank at a time when Israel has dramatically stepped up attacks there. (According to the United Nations, Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 600 people in the West Bank this year.) Here’s a transcript of Colville’s interview with Jerry Windley-Daoust for the Catholic Worker Roundtable newsletter.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
Catholic Worker activist Elizabeth Nakiwolo continues to recover from her 80-day extralegal detention after being released last week. Meanwhile, Michael Setikoleko explained details surrounding the illegal land grab that displaced 37 families.
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After attempting to educate subsistence farmers about their legal rights, Elizabeth Nakiwolo and Michael Setikoleko of the Uganda Catholic Worker were illegally detained in early June. Nakiwolo, a mother of three, was recently released. Setikoleko reports that the farmers’ village was raised, and several have died, in the wake of an illegal land seizure.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
At the University of Notre Dame, student protesters and their allies are drawing on Catholic social teaching and the Catholic Worker tradition to press the university to divest from companies that violate Catholic teaching on war and the arms trade. The South Bend Catholic Worker has been providing practical and pastoral support.
ByJerry Windley-Daoust
In the pre-dawn hours on Monday, April 15, dozens of Catholic Workers and their allies gathered at the Kansas City National Security Campus. Their mission was to beg the workers there to stop assembling the parts necessary for a global nuclear war.
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About 50 people, including Catholic Workers, participated in the Nevada Desert Experience walk from Las Vegas to the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), where the U.S. government is conducting subcritical testing as part of the effort to maintain and update the United States’ nuclear arsenal.
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Some 21 activists calling for a ceasefire in Gaza risked arrest during a demonstration in front of the White House on March 6. The multifaith demonstration was organized by Christians 4 Ceasefire, which is co-sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker (Washington, D.C.). The event aimed to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to protest against U.S. involvement in what the organizers describe as Israel’s “genocidal war” in the region.
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Five Catholic Workers were arrested on Monday, March 4th, while blocking access to the General Dynamics Electric Boat facility in New London, Connecticut. The engineering facility is involved in designing a new class of submarines equipped with nuclear weapons. This article is slightly adapted from a press statement released by Scott Schaeffer-Duffy of Sts. Francis and Therese Catholic Worker House, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Two Catholic Workers were arrested at a nonviolent protest at the Pentagon organized by three Catholic Worker communities to mark the Feast of the Holy Innocents.
