Duluth Catholic Worker Community Explores Direct Aid Connection to Gaza
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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What If CWs Could Connect Directly to Gaza Communities?
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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‘They’re Trying to Gaza-ify the West Bank’: An Interview with Mark Colville
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.
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After Arrests, Students Renew Call for Notre Dame to Follow Catholic Teaching on War, Investments
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.
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Activists Call for Gaza Ceasefire, Risk Arrest at White House
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.
