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CHILDREN GO TO BED HUNGRY DEATH OF THE LIBERAL CLASS By JEFF DIETRICH translate the demands of radicals and labor organizers into incremental ecently I saw the film,The reforms that were palatable to the Theory of Everything. In ruling class. this film Steven Hawking That function no longer exists Ris dealing with the smallest because we have consistently purged entities of the universe: protons, neu- the nation of radicals, socialists, trons, and electrons; and the largest communists, and strong unions, entities of the universe; black holes, which were the source of the liberal super novas, and anti matter. Since conscience and intellectual the time of Einstein and Niels Bohr, ideals. We have emasculated physicists have been slowly “slouch- the liberal class through fear ing toward Bethlehem” to await the and careerism, and birth of the theory that would unlock without radical voices, the mystery of the mind of God. liberals, with their bent However, journalist Chris Hedges, toward “progress” and in his book, Death of the Liberal industrialism have in many Class, is much more modest. He instances adopted the simply wants us to know how we goals of the elite. got to be where we are and how we Hedges says, “The liberal got to be the kind of people that we class have driven critics of have become. How did we come to this utopian fantasy (globaliza- be in a situation where the economy tion and free market capitalism) is robust yet people’s homes are from their midst. The liberal still being foreclosed? How did we class was complicit in the rise get to be in an environment of fear of a new global oligarchy and and anxiety in which our Constitu- the crushing poverty visited in tion and Bill of Rights have been globalization’s wake on the poor and put through a paper shredder in the Chris Hedges, in his working class. It abetted the decline name of national security? How of the middle class—the very basis did we come to live in a 24/7 ebay− book, Death of the of democracy. It has permitted, in Amazon shopping mall—a society the name of progress, the dismantling of endless spectacle that distracts Liberal Class, simply of the manufacturing sector, leaving us with sports, fashion, shopping, huge pockets of poverty and despair and the mindless fodder of cop, wants us to know how behind. Yet it would be a mistake talk, reality, and food shows, and we got to be where we to assume that the liberal class was soap operas, where public liturgies seduced by the utopian promises of like the Oscars, Grammys, and the are and how we got to globalism. It was also seduced by Olympics satisfy all our endless careerism. Those who mouthed the desires but leave us empty, hungry, be the kind of people right words…were rewarded. They thirsty, and desiring ever more of were given platforms on television the same? How did we come to live that we have become. and the political area” (p.142). in a society of perpetual war? How How did we come to Hedges, in his brilliant prose, did it come to be that our economy bludgeons us into a deeper under- “recovers” while more people are be in a situation where standing of who we are and how we falling into poverty and more are liv- got into the mess in which we find ing on the streets? How did it come the economy is robust ourselves. Hedges dates the begin- to be that 30% of our children go to ning of our current social crisis to bed hungry while we have plenty of yet people’s homes are 100 years ago at the beginning of money to build sports stadiums and still being foreclosed? WWI. Prior to that time in the U.S. entertainment centers? there was a vibrant radical socialist For Catholic Workers the term How did we get to be and aggressive labor movement that “liberal” is profanity. We like to fought for the rights of the immi- think of ourselves as would-be in an environment of grant and working poor, and consti- radicals. Yet in Death of the Liberal tuted a very real threat to the elite Class, Hedges explains that, in the fear and anxiety in capitalist class; but the war ended all past, liberals served an important which our Constitution of that. function. Liberals traditionally put Initially it was a very unpopular their faith in government as a tool of and Bill of Rights war. When president Wilson went to reform and progress. They believed Congress to ask for a declaration of that government, a strong industrial have been put through war against Germany, it was neces- economy, and technological prog- sary for an entire cavalry battalion to ress, which they equated with moral a paper shredder escort him for fear that an anarchist progress, would ensure the advance- might attempt to assassinate him. ment of all citizens. As people of in the name of In order to mobilize mass consent conscience and as intellectuals; as national security? for the war, Wilson hired the adver- professors, preachers, artists, and tising expert, Edward Bernsey, the journalists, liberals were able to Continued on page 2

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Roy Bourgeois WOMEN’S ORDINATION Creech Photo By George Abu-Shkara The following article first appeared in the March 13, 2015 edition of the Columbus Dispatch. Gary (Las Vegas CW), Jeff, Catherine, Bobby at Creech AFB Drone Protest Dietrich Bonhoeffer By JOANNE VIVIANO Call to Action, which hosted the justice.” n activist who was expelled visit and advocates for women’s “And that is what we have here DIETRICH from the priesthood and ordination and other changes to the with the ordination of women and excommunicated from the Catholic Church. gay marriage. It is about justice. It BONHOEFFER Roman Catholic Church Lupia said a number of Ohio and is about love. It is about equality. By SANDI HUCKABY A national church-reform organiza- It is about God. And it cannot be for his support of women’s ordina- tion called on central Ohio Catholics tions have agreed that “exclusion is stopped.” his year marks the 70th an- this week to “come out” and tell always immoral because exclusion is The former priest continues his niversary of the day Dietrich family and friends that they believe contrary to God’s inclusive nature, work as an advocate for the ordina- Bonhoeffer was hanged in the equality of races, genders, and who loves us all.” tion of women and gay marriage by the Nazis on April 9, Bourgeois was dismissed by the in the Catholic Church. He speaks T sexual orientation. 1945. As a German Lutheran pastor Roy Bourgeois, of Columbus, Vatican in 2012 from his work with around the country and participates and theologian, he lived his life in Georgia, visited Maple Grove United the Maryknoll Fathers and Broth- in demonstrations, including recent faithfulness to the Gospel. In his Methodist Church in Clintonville on ers. He said the rejection, and the “solidarity witness” acts outside the most well-known work, The Cost of Wednesday to discuss his work to- silence of his fellow priests, gave Vatican Embassy in Washington, Discipleship, he pulls no punches ward greater equality and acceptance him a glimpse of the suffering and holding banners that read “Ordain when he says: “When Christ calls a in the church for women and people anger felt by people who live with women” and “God created us all man, he bids him come and die.” For who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or discrimination. equal—gay & straight.” Bonhoeffer, the death he speaks of transgender. Still, he said, he is filled with hope. Bourgeois spent his childhood was not figurative, but literal. “We are of God,” he said. “Life, as Many tried to stop the abolition, in Louisiana, where schools were This radical obedience to Christ is we know it, is a sacred gift. What- women’s suffrage, and civil rights segregated and blacks were forced in stark contrast to the comfortable ever might be our race, gender, or movements but failed. to sit in the last five rows of pews in Christianity that settles for what he sexual orientation, we are all equal.” “Any movement that is rooted in his Catholic Church. He became a calls “cheap grace.” “Cheap grace “We are of equal worth and dig- love, justice, and equality cannot be priest in 1972 after serving in the is preaching forgiveness without re- nity. No exceptions.” stopped,” Bourgeois said. “These U.S. Army in Vietnam. quiring repentance, baptism without Bourgeois is “walking in the foot- movements are of God, they are all As a priest, he initially served in church discipline, Communion with- prints of Jesus,” said Tom Lupia, an about oneness and unity and inclu- Bolivia, where he saw the poor out confession…Cheap grace is officer of the Columbus chapter of siveness. It is all about equality and Continued on page 6 Continued on page 6

DIETRICH, cont’d from page 1 anarchists were arrested (p.79-80). having virtual opinions, in what and self help magazines to televi- WWI laid the foundation for Charlotte Twight calls ‘participa- sion ads and internet spam that tell nephew of Sigmund Freud. “World what Hedges refers to as “inverted tory fascism.’ They are reduced us to focus on ourselves, meditate, War I,” says Hedges, “ushered in the totalitarianism.” Unlike the classical to expressing themselves on issues do yoga, exercise, eat whole grains, modern era. The war bequeathed overt fascism of Hitler, Mussolini, that are meaningless, voting on watch Oprah, Ellen, and Dr. Phil industrial killing—was fought with or Stalin, “inverted totalitarians” do American Idol or in polls conducted and buy a lot of products that make machines and sustained by industrial not attempt to dismantle constitutions by the power elite. The citizens of us feel good about ourselves. As production, as well as vast wartime or bills of rights; they simply leave Rome, stripped of political power, President Bush said after the 9/11 bureaucracies, which could for the them in place and do what they and are allowed to vote to spare or kill a attacks: “The most patriotic thing first time, administer and organize their bloodless advisers believe is gladiator in the arena, a similar form Americans can do to fight terrorism impersonal mass slaughter thus leav- needed to serve the elite moneyed of hollow public choice” (p.25). is to go shopping.” ing hundreds or thousands dead in class. There is no cult of personality The various elements of inverted Hedges writes: “The uniformity an instant…The war unleashed new because these people, despite the fact fascism: a permanent war economy of opinion molded by the media is forms of mass propaganda and mass that they appear on stage and televi- that focuses mass attention on the reinforced through the skillfully manipulation that made it possible to sion, are not interested in public enemy and breeds a culture of fear orchestrated emotions of national- engineer public opinion through the adulation so much as in public theft and an exorbitant and untouchable ism and patriotism which paint all technological innovations of radio, and the creation of a public devoid military economy; a surveillance dissidents as ‘soft’ or ‘unpatriotic.’ cinema, photography, cheap mass of critical thinking operating on the state that spies on all citizens and The patriotic citizen, plagued by fear publications, and graphic arts…Mass basis of fear and distrust—a public educates us through airport security of job losses and possible terrorist propaganda astutely exploited the new who will vote for more security and similar checks in all government attacks, unfailingly supports surveil- understanding of mass psychology and less personal freedom. Hedges offices to meekly accept like sheep lance and the militarized police state. (led by such figures as Sigmund quotes Philip Berrigan saying: “If the authoritarian searches and sei- voting made a difference, it would be zure of “contribution” property; the There is no questioning the $1 trillion Freud).” spent each year on defense. Military Hedges writes: “The war de- illegal.” subtle propaganda of the media, not stroyed values and self-perceptions “There is no institution left that just the obvious propaganda of Fox and intelligence agencies are held that had once characterized Ameri- can accurately be described as demo- News and Rush Limbaugh, but the above the government, as if some- can life and replaced them with cratic. Citizens, rather than authenti- pervasive propaganda of advertising, how they are not part of the govern- fear, distrust, and the hedonism cally participating in power, are only everything from fashion magazines ment. The most powerful instruments of the consumer society. The new of state control effectively have no propaganda, designed to appeal to public oversight…We stand like the emotions…(sold) the war with CATHOLIC APRIL 2015 Vol. 45/No. 2 sheep before Homeland Security simple slogans such as, ‘The war to agents in airports and we are mute end all wars,’ or ‘the war to make when Congress permits our private the world safe for democracy,’ did correspondence and conversations to not so much emasculate intellectuals, Publisher: Catherine Morris be monitored and archived. We en- artists, and progressives, as seduce Editors: Jeff Dietrich, Martha Lewis, and Mike Wisniewski dure more state control now than at them. WWI destroyed the vibrant Book Review Editor: Sandi Huckaby • Managing Editor: Donald Nollar any time in U.S. history” (p.26-27). Staff: Faustino Cruz; Rev. Elizabeth Griswold; Rufo Noriega (Graphic Artist) Hedges heroes are resisters: Dan progressive movement not only in The Catholic Agitator (ISSN-0045-5970) is published bi-monthly this country, but in Europe as well.” and Philip Berrigan, Dorothy Day, February, April, June, August, October, and December for $1 per year by the Ralph Nader, Dennis Kucinich, “The severe weakening of populist Los Angeles Catholic Worker, 632 N. Brittania St., Los Angeles, CA 90033-1722 forces during the war led to their • • • • • • Dwight McDonald, I.F. Stone, Ran- obliteration when the war ended. Periodical Postage paid at Los Angeles, CA dolph Bourne, and anyone who risks The war propaganda, which used POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: their job for the sake of justice and fear as its engine, instantly switched The Catholic Agitator, 632 N. 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Frida Berrigan, 40, the eldest daughter of Phil Berrigan and Liz McAlister, has gone from being a “whirling dervish” activist for peace and justice to a stay-at- home mom of two little ones in diapers and a step-mom to a seven-year-old. RAISED BY RADICALS a huge surprise to find the recurring pattern of feeding bans all the way across the country. In every state and just about every city, the same story was being told. Homeless advocates, Christian and other faith- based charitable groups, and regular citizens reported confrontations with local authorities over public food dis- tribution. Threatened with jail time and heavy fines, many acquiesced; but others have held strong, resisted, and made a stand for their rights. One such group is Project Home, in Philadelphia, that has success- fully fought the city in court for the right to feed folks in need. I visited Frida Berrigan a friend, Will O’Brien, whom I knew there, and he gave me the low-down. BOOK REVIEW Eventually traveling west through Chicago and Denver, I stopped in It Runs in the Family: On Being Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Raised by Radicals and Growing two months and visited with an- Into Rebellious Motherhood other friend and strong community by Frida Berrigan OR Books, 2014 partner, Alfonso Hernandez, who By SANDI HUCKABY has been actively fighting the city for many years for the right to share rida Berrigan, 40, the eldest food publicly. Although his resourc- daughter of Phil Berrigan es are significantly less than those and Liz McAlister, has gone of Project Home, he too was having from being a “whirling der- success in the courts. F Working with Alfonso in the park vish” activist for peace and justice to a stay-at-home mom of two little on Sundays, sharing a meal with ones in diapers and a step-mom to a what he calls the “metro campers,” seven-year-old. This book weaves another volunteer mentioned he had stories of her own upbringing in read on Yahoo about this new 22 the chaotic environment of Jonah city ban. Immediately I proceeded House in Baltimore to her current, courthouse, countless vigils at the to seek out more info on this subject, much quieter home in New London Pentagon, etc. There were plenty of BANNED in the old-fashioned way by talking Connecticut. Frida describes how cockroaches, second-hand clothes, to people, asking all my contacts facing the challenges of child rearing and dumpster diving. Though life at with any social conscience if they can be no less daunting than ham- Jonah House was not easy, she would STREET SERVING had heard anything. The response mering on nuclear missile silos. It not change any of it. By DIMITRI KADIEV was unanimous. “No, I didn’t hear is where the macrocosm meets the She is also very grateful to her about the 22 city ban, but I did hear husband, Patrick Sheehan-Gaumer n October, 2014, a report was about that 90-year-old guy who was microcosm—they both have the released by an advocacy group, same goal of making the world more who works as a social worker and arrested three times for feeding the also a second-generation peace activ- The National Coalition for the homeless in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.” peace-filled and more just. And it all Homeless, entitled “Share No begins inside the human heart where ist like herself. I I realized this 90-year-old man in Somehow Frida has still found More: the criminalization of efforts Florida had made a big splash, bring- there is both love and hate, violence to feed those in need.” In this report and gentleness existing side by time to write her column for the ing some much-needed attention to online blog Waging Nonviolence, a startling fact is revealed: In the the cause. Maybe it would be good side. A toddler needs guidance and last two years, 22 cities across the patience to discover how to navigate and serves on the board of the War to investigate this further, I thought. Resisters League. But I found it nation have installed severe restric- I then called Will O’Brien, at Project in this world, and it is the parent’s tions or all-out bans on food sharing job to guide them to make choices especially moving when she de- Home in Philly, and he gave me the scribed the work she does with the programs. Cases in ten more cities phone number to the National Coali- that will be healthy for the child, and are pending. in the larger sense, for the world as organization she helped found, Wit- tion for the Homeless in Washington In January of this same year, I DC, and the name of their founder, well. The age-old saying is still true: ness Against Torture, a nonviolent was volunteering at the Los Angeles Peace begins at home. direct-action group focused on shut- Michael Stoops. Not only did Mr. Catholic Worker and painting a vol- Stoops confirm the 22 city ban, Frida explains that her parents ting down Guantánamo and ending unteer mural at their Skid Row soup had not planned on having children torture. When her own parents were but he also informed me that his kitchen. The information in question organization had been conducting because they thought that it would prisoners, there was always a date had as of yet not come to light, but interfere with their peace activism. on the calendar when they would these studies since 2007, and since while working with the LACW I was that time, 70 plus cities had enacted When Frida and her two siblings eventually return home; there were also fortunate enough to be studying came along anyway, Phil and Liz also daily letters and frequent phone bans. As fortune would have it, Mr. the book of Genesis with the Talmud Stoops personally knew the 90-year- decided that only one of them at a calls and visitations. However, the (Jewish Commentary) under the tute- time would risk arrest so that the prisoners in Guantánamo have the lage of Rabbi Chaim, from the West old-man in Florida and gave me his other one could be at home to raise torturous pain of separation from Coast Chabad in Los Angeles. This phone number. the children. loved ones with no hope of when, if study brought interesting information Over the next three weeks I called This system worked well except for ever, they will be released or get to forth about Abraham, the father of him repeatedly, finally catching up one time when Phil and Liz were un- see their families again. faith, as he tried to convince God not with this lightening rod of a man expectedly in jail at the same time. This book is an important remind- to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. It twice, once for a short interview and Fortunately, the folks at Jonah House er that although the work of closing turns out Sodom and Gomorrah were then again to confirm the facts. stepped up to the plate and became down Guantánamo, ending nuclear not destroyed only for sexual immo- “I did not call you back because I the proverbial village that it takes to weapons, and ending war are all es- rality, but more so for their extreme have had a thousand people calling raise a child. Frida’s description of sential tasks for every peace-loving inhospitality to strangers. It was me,” he explained unapologetically. Ladon Sheets, in particular, tak- individual, so is the work of being illegal to feed the poor on the streets. His name is Arnold Abbott and he ing on the role of child rearing, left a good parent and a loving spouse. Ironically, this was also happen- is a devout Jew. At 93-years-old he me in stitches. Anyone who knew Frida Berrigan shows us that her own ing on the streets of Los Angeles is a World War II combat vet and a Ladon will find it very entertaining life has interwoven both—the years as municipal legislators sought to 50-year veteran of the civil rights how he rose to this new challenge in she has dedicated herself to changing pass ordinances banning street food movement. “I was working in Mis- his own inimitable way. the world and the years dedicated to servers. sissippi in ’64, fighting for African Frida describes how grateful she changing diapers. “There is a time After completing the mural at the Americans’ right to vote.” He said. is to both her parents for their love to every purpose under Heaven.” Ω Hippie Kitchen, I travelled to Mexico Allowing for the profound facts of and guidance and the amazing job for two months to partake in a graffiti this life-long freedom fighter’s story they did as parents. Yes, there were Sandi Huckaby is a former LACW arts festival. Returning to the U.S. to sink in, the next question arose long separations, missed birthdays community member and was co- through New Orleans, I eventually naturally: “What inspired you to and graduations, long days in the editor of the Agitator. hitchhiked to New York City. It was Continued on page 6

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They do not hate our freedom; they hate that we deny them their freedom. They are incredulous at the self-serving craven behavior of our elected leaders. They hate our drones and our advanced weapon systems given haphazardly to our latest poster child allies, raining death down upon them and their families. They despise the hypocrisy, grand-standing and nonsensical foreign policy which allows this human tragedy to continue...endlessly. U.S. POLICY AND THE MIDDLE EAST By FAUSTINO CRUZ gress members well ensconced in their of Jesus.” As one friend said: “He pockets, are just raking in the profits. BIX walked the walk. Not that every- Jeff Dietrich ver since the debacle in Iraq, Let’s be clear—this largesse comes one agreed with him, but he was a with ISIL overrunning a sig- at great expense to the human fam- personality. He was always cheer- nificant portion of Syria and ily, who pay in both blood and tears REMEMBERED ful.” Another friend said: “He was a THE GOOD Eannouncing the establish- for these unholy weapons systems, genuine Christian, a true disciple of ment of a caliphate with Mosul as its suffering death, mutilation, empty Jesus—one of a kind. When comes SAMARITAN Wisniewski Mike by photo Bix capital, and with Iran gaining signifi- bellies, lives of squalor while wait- such another?” cant headlines, especially regarding a ing for food, supplies, and medical Bix died in hospice care at the likely upcoming deal restricting their attention, desperate for some sort of Tacoma Catholic Worker surrounded Stories from the nuclear program in return for ending education or social cohesion. Suffice by his loving community and friends. Los Angeles Catholic U.N. and U.S. economic sanctions, to say, the mosaic of multi-cultural He is and will continue to be missed the Mideast has garnered a near-con- ethnic and varied religious practices by many, myself included. Worker on Skid Row stant front page presence. Riddle me in these middle eastern countries, At the 2013 Pacific Life Com- this: How do you get 47 of the most from Iraq through Syria, Palestine, munity (PLC) resistance retreat, vainglorious, ego-heavy windbags Yemen, and Libya, is forever rent, held in Tacoma, I was honored and to agree on anything? After all, the torn apart, most likely never to be privileged to spend some time with republican-controlled United States knit together again. Bix, which afforded me time to get House of Representatives could not So why? Why did the good to know more of the legend I had even agree on funding for the Home- senators do it? In a sense they are heard so much about, yet until that land Security Agency for more than responding to an unholy alliance time, spent little time with. It will be a week at a time. What with attempts of oil and pro-Israel money (thanks a time I will treasure for the rest of at crushing Obamacare, gutting the to Citizens United) and conserva- my life. new EPA directives, slavering over tive Christian votes, steadfastly A void now exists in the Catholic the boatloads of cash from the Key- sure in faith that God wants them to was imported from the west…But Is- murderous than the procession of Our response to this crisis is Fr. William “Bix” Bichsel, S.J.–RIP Worker movement, and in the peace stone XL pipeline lobby, schmoozing continue sponsoring beloved Israel’s May 26, 1928 – February 28, 2015 and justice movements. As Fr. Scott with Bibi and company, and embark- covenant, coupled with an irresist- lam belongs to the Third World. It is Caliphates, Pashas, Tsars, Shahs, surely not blankets, a huge home- a unifying, mobilizing, and combative invaders, Crusaders, European colo- building project, tons of food, articulated: “His voice for peace ing on presidential campaigns, who ible chance to deliver a low blow to By MIKE WISNIEWSKI and the poor may now be silenced, can find the time? Obama. What is not to like: cash; ideology. We are now engaged in a nialists, and U.S. and Russian client air-lifted medicine etc, but instead, true war waged by the Third World states that have been inflicted on this but his message is resurrected in the Yet somehow the Senators’ letter solid votes; political expedience. more bombing, more weapons, more ifelong Tacoma resident, against the developed countries: a part of the world. killing, more fanning the future fires lives of others who will follow in his was written, the deed was done; Iran, Take that, you wacko death-to-Israel, Jesuit priest, and longtime footsteps.” Bix—PRESENTÉ! that massive world power, distributor death-to America Iranian extremists! war expressed increasingly in ter- Iran’s leaders are certainly mindful of hate and revenge. Would it not be rorism, but also in peaceful invasion of the fact that, aside from Israel, Catholic Worker, nuclear of terror, fomenter of revolutions, the How then did Iran manage to nice if, for once, the U.S. actually lived weapons resister, and peace “Great Satan’s” foil has been put on earn our dear senators’ hostility and (The Technological Bluff). those countries, which have sought up to its billing as liberty’s champion, L and justice activist, Fr. William notice: Congress, specifically those emerge as one of our most powerful Well, it is interesting to note that to develop the capacity of nuclear if we were truly a blessing to the rest Iran’s laws forbid impious, immod- weapon production and then were Bichsel, (known simply as “Bix”) OSCAR sporting a republican brand, can modern-day bugaboos? Rising from of the world instead of some crazed, joined the Heavenly Cloud of Wit- abrogate at will any agreement that the ashes of an earlier set of eco- est, corrupt behavior, or even being forced to abandon their intent, have megalomaniacal, Machiavellian death- ostentatiously rich. The members of not fared very well. Libya: no more nesses on February 28, of complica- the pansy, Obama, and other wimpy nomic strictures, a horrific invasion inflicting monstrosity, which uses its tions from a long battle with heart ROMERO: western powers sign with those nu- by the U.S.-sponsored Iraq army. the Supreme Council, who rule Iran, Qadafi; Iraq: no more Saddam. military and economic might to scourge are religious leaders. They are not Instead, a great deal of chaos, mas- the suffering people of the world? disease. He was 86. MARTYR clear recalcitrant mullahs. (That’s right, Saddam was once our After taking his final vows in 1962, The question I have is, what do these pal, our go-to enforcer. We basically interested in earthly riches or com- sive numbers of refugees, plenty of They do not hate our freedom; they forts and the carefully vetted elected bloodthirsty, media savvy jihadis. hate that we deny them their freedom. Bix became a member of the IWW– men of power have to gain from this paid in proxy for his war on Iran, a Industrial Workers of the World, stance? Where is the profit margin? costly and bloody affair which we leaders they choose had better not The interests of our governing They are incredulous at the self-serv- be dipping into the public till, after leaders lie in playing to the cam- ing craven behavior of our elected which he embraced and which was Hard Cover - $40 Well, if we follow the money, what assured him he could win, and he inspirational, along with the Gospels, can we turn up? Now granted the very nearly did but for the human all, it is against the law. Therefore, eras, enriching themselves and their leaders. They do not hate the United Soft Cover - $20 while corruption runs rampant in corporate pals, maintaining U.S. States of America; they hate our in his life of service to the poor and whole dollar flow is convoluted, wave of children mine sweepers working for a more just order. nonsensical, contradictory, sordid, charging into paradise with their all of our allies, with billions going hegemony, and their elected posts, drones and our advanced weapon Plus shipping. to enrich every person, tribal group, complete with access to the feeding systems given haphazardly to our Bix was co-founder, in 1979, of and head-scratching. It turns out green headbands and Koranic verses Guadalupe House, the Catholic that we, the citizens and taxpayers on their lips, sacrificed to preserve corporation, contractor, and politi- trough of public dollars. They are latest poster child allies, raining de- cian that pays lip service to being willing to sacrifice any number of struction and death down upon them Worker in Tacoma, where he re- Order Jeff’s new of the U.S.A., basically have allowed the revolution. You know, the mained until his death. our so-called representatives to hand people’s revolution to overthrow one our pal for a hot second, Iran has U.S. soldiers and civilian lives to and their families. They despise the book directly from been busy saying what they mean achieve that end, and forget about hypocrisy, grand-standing and non- Bix’s dedication to a life of resis- off scads of cash, directly or indi- more hated U.S. client king, this time tance and peace and justice activism rectly, to nearly every country in the the Shah, who through his murder- and doing what they say. And what caring a whit for any of the people in sensical foreign policy which allows the publisher. they say is that it is not in your best these embattled countries. this human tragedy to continue... began by participating in protests Mideast, starting with $3.1 billion in ous Savak unleashed the pathological against the Vietnam War. His first Contact: military aid handed out, no questions torturing and killing of thousands, interest to trust Israel, the United If we support kings and dictators endlessly. Ω States, or their lackey dictators. And arrest came in 1976, while protest- asked, to Israel, fresh from the mas- insuring eternal enmity and distrust who repress their people, opposing Faustino Cruz is a Los Angeles Catho- here is how you can beat them and only those who thwart our interest ing against Trident nuclear weapons Theresia deVroom at sacre of nearly 600 children in Gaza. between the people of Iran and the lic Worker community member. at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, near Egypt, that bastion of democracy, U.S. power structure.) Neverthe- we will help you do it. All on a while allowing the overthrow of le- 310-422-0810 very economical budget—yes, less gitmately elected governments as in Bangor, Washington, where he later once more ruled by the military, less, after signing a ruinous peace Dear CW Friends, would be arrested numerous times. holding what seems like weekly agreement with Iraq, letting our guy than one percent of what we spend Egypt, no one will believe we really or e-mail on bribing, arming, and bombing. support democracy. If we are not se- Our youngest son A.J. Scheip spent Since that time he was arrested 45 kangaroo court sessions dealing out Saddam off the hook as aggressor times, spending a total of two and death sentences in the hundreds for and getting nothing but the status A very effective plan. Take note rious about getting the vote and basic Thanksgiving week with you and was [email protected] presidential yes-men and ambitious human rights for women in Saudi deeply touched by the hand of God. one-half years in prisons and jails. the awful crime of protesting, such quo with billions in lost oil revenue, Bix was arrested twice at Ft. Ben- protests now being met routinely burning hulks of oil tankers clogging bombastic senators. Arabia, and other Gulf States, we are The experience was life changing as Archbishop Oscar Romero chief promoter of Romero’s beatifi- As for the nuclear weapon capabil- not going to be taken seriously as we well as giving him a broader sense of ning, in protest against the SOA/ cation. “His assassination was not with lethal force, is not content with the straits of Hormuz, an economy By DAVID DeCOSSE $700 million, mostly in military aid, ity containment agreement, which espouse these ideals in other places. the Gospel-in-action. WHINSEC, and in 2009, as a mem- caused by motives that were simply in shambles, and a spent weary ber of the Disarm Now Plowshares yet wants another 600 million, as military, how is it possible that some the senators, Israel, and many hawks If we allow U.S. weapons and money On the flight back to Florida, AJ political,” Paglia said, “but by hatred want torpedoed, it seems that our struck up a conversation with a action at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, n May 23, 2015, in San well as those promised shiny new thirty years later, Iran is success- to kill and oppress Palestinians Salvador, Archbishop for a faith that, imbued with char- F-16’s and F-35’s. fully challenging the U.S., taking European allies, and many of our through our Israeli proxies, with no woman who was also returning to Ft. and in 2010, at the Y-12 National Se- ity, would not be silent in the face own oil and energy companies, want Myers. Long story short, the woman curity Complex, a nuclear facility in Oscar Romero will be Jordan, Iraq, the former government on Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the more than a tsk-tsk finger wag, no- beatified. The Vatican of the injustices that relentlessly and of Yemen, the Free Syrian Army, one Kurds, and both, al-Qaeda and its access to Iran’s oil fields, and just as body is going to believe that we care was so touched with the charism of Oakridge, TN. He spent most of the O cruelly slaughtered the poor and their decree announcing the beatification importantly, the bonanza associated the Catholic Worker and AJ’s enthu- three-month sentence for this action defenders.” of whose latest incarnation’s main even more vicious offshoot, ISIL? about other regimes that kill and declared Romero a martyr “killed in base was easily overrun by Al Nusra. Talk about outsized influence! with the development of the huge torture their own people. siasm that she took from her finger a in solitary confinement and became A conservative and favorite of the reserves of natural gas in the giant Finally, it might be a bit much for diamond ring, placed it in AJ’s hand very ill and nearly died. hatred of the faith, March 24, 1980.” ruling class when he was named Oops there go those advanced anti- Neither Saudi Arabia, with its hun- For centuries, the laurel of martyr- tank TOW systems to our Al Qaeda dreds of billions of hoarded cash off-shore South Pars field located in the west and the U.S. to expect the and asked him to cash it in and give Not too long before his death he archbishop in 1977, Romero began to affiliated terrorist friends. the Persian Gulf. Therefore, a verifi- long-suffering people of the Mideast the money to LACW. The ring was traveled for a second time (while dom was usually granted to those change within a month of assuming reserves, nor Israel with its nuclear killed for confessing faith, protecting Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, arsenal, nor Europe with its scandal- able, inspection-heavy accord makes to place the senseless killing of vaca- valued at $1,200.00 but only brought confined to a wheelchair) to Jeju office. On March 12, 1977, his friend and other wealthy Gulf States, have ous past colonial and post-colonial sense. tioning tourists at the top of their $300.00 at auction. Island, South Korea, in support of the the divine rights of the Church, or Jesuit Rutilio Grande was murdered to pay for their military toys, of yearnings, nor the U.S., with all its Sure, Iran is bargaining tough. list, what with some 76,000 Syrians, Enclosed is a check for $300.00, a ongoing resistance of the islanders defending sexual purity understood for his work organizing campesinos. course, but at a highly subsidized nuclear powered submarines and They want the sanctions lifted. They mostly killed by their own govern- gift from an angel who just hap- against a massive U.S.-sponsored as inherently related to faith itself. “When I looked at Rutilio lying there rate, because all those smart bombs, aircraft carriers, thousands of attack are well aware of the hypocrisy that ment within the past year, molder- pened to be seated next to AJ on an Naval base being built that will host With Romero, however, the category dead,” Romero said, “I thought: ‘If missile guidance and other weapon jets and laser-guided hell-fire missiles, allows Israel to maintain an arsenal ing in their graves. With 7.6 million ordinary plane ride back home, then U.S. nuclear armed and powered of martyr in Catholicism moves they have killed him for doing what systems, and jets were researched have been able to achieve as much. of approximately 200-300 nuclear Syrians internally displaced while God did the rest. The providence of submarines and other naval vessels. rightly into a broader dimension. he did, then I too have to walk in the and developed on the taxpayer dime. Jacques Ellul, the famous French warheads, yet denies all others this another 3.5 million have sought ref- our Lord never ceases to amaze me. Those close to him saw him as a Those who killed Romero while same path.’” guarantee to get out of being bombed, prophet who deeply cared for others. he was celebrating mass at a hospital Over the next three years, his There is nothing quite like the weap- theologian and social critic, once uge in neighboring countries, which May God be praised!!! ons development welfare system that wrote, “Today the Third World has deposed, blown to hell, or invaded by are well short of the tens of billions Even his most current provincial, Fr. chapel in San Salvador “wanted to transformation continued—an hands out multi-billion dollar contracts a mobilizing ideology: Islam. Islam U.S. whimsical decree. We are not of dollars it would take to adequately Yours in Christ, Scott Santarosa, S.J., stated that Bix strike the Church that flowed from already holy man changed again and by the bushel full. The weapons pur- has every chance of succeeding in saying these are nice people, but they feed, house, medically care for, and Father Michael Scheip “has been the voice of the prophet in the Second Vatican Council,” said again by his openness to the suffering veyors of mass destruction, with con- opposition to communism, which are no worse, and considerably less educate these traumatized newcomers. the Oregon Province of the Society Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the Continued on page 6

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DIETRICH, cont’d from p.2 When he spoke out alongside the At a time when most other church case it is Mr. Abbott going to the people, he was arrested and kicked leaders were willing to just “go Capitol. Our prayers go with you, The only way to remain human is out of the country. along” with Nazi propaganda and sir. For more information from the to resist. We must recover the dis- In 1980, Bourgeois felt compelled interference in Church affairs, he National Coalition for the Homeless course of Marxists “class warfare” to respond to the assassination was one of the few to actively resist. go to: nationalhomeless.org. Ω and begin to recognize that the cap- of Archbishop Oscar Romero, an For him, the cost of discipleship italist elite are at war with the entire advocate for the poor and op- meant he must join the German Re- Travelling artist Dimitri Kadiev is a earth, and they are winning; they pressed, and the ensuing rape and sistance movement and also become friend of the Los Angeles Catholic will not rest until they have turned slaying of three Catholic sisters and a founding member of the Confess- Worker. all workers of the world into serfs a laywoman from the U.S. by the El ing Church in Germany, a free and and devoured the resources of the independent protestant church in Salvadoran military. DeCOSSE, cont’d from p.5 entire planet, turning it into a vast He turned his eye to the School opposition to the state church con- wasteland where the only remaining of the Americas (now called the trolled by the Nazis. of the people of his country. This habitats will be in small undersea Western Hemisphere Institute for When he could no longer train change culminated in his passionate, colonies and space stations housing Security Cooperation) at Fort Ben- seminary students for the Confess- prophetic challenge to the Salvador- the elite. ning, Georgia, where many Latin ing Church, he went underground an security services on the day be- “Acts of rebellion,” says Hedges, American militaries, including El and continued the work in secret, fore he was murdered: “In the name “permit us to be free and indepen- Salvador’s, receive training. He and moving from village to village of God, in the name of this suffering dent human beings. Rebellion chips two others spent more than a year in helping his students in their illegal people whose cries rise to heaven away, however imperceptibly, at the prison after a demonstration there, parishes. His many international more loudly each day, I implore you, edifice of the oppressor. Rebellion and formed School of the Americas contacts made him a crucial leader in I beg you, I order you in the name of sustains the capacity for human Watch, a group that now numbers in the German underground movement. God: Stop the repression!” solidarity. Rebellion in moments the tens of thousands. In the end, his efforts to under- So we now rightly celebrate of profound human despair and It is largely through that work, he mine Hitler’s regime cost him his Romero’s martyred life. However, misery keeps alive the capacity said, that he met Catholic women life. But for Bonhoeffer, that was a I am sure that he would want us not to be human. Rebellion is not the who told him they felt called to the cost that he had contemplated and so much to remember him as, in the same as revolution. Revolution priesthood. Their concerns kept written about for years; it was sim- spirit of the faith that does justice, works toward the establishment of him awake at night. ply the cost of discipleship. Ω but to remember the thousands of a new power structure. Rebellion He landed in hot water with the poor Salvadorans tortured and mur- is about perpetual and permanent Vatican after he attended a 2008 Sandi Huckaby is a former LACW dered in the course of that bloody alienation from the power. And it is women’s ordination ceremony and community member and was co- conflict, and to reflect on the U.S. only in a state of rebellion that we began speaking out against what editor of the Agitator. She lives in government’s complicity in their can hold fast to moral imperatives he calls “the sin of sexism” in the the mountains where she is active in repression. Ω that prevent a descent into tyranny. church. environmental issues and is part of Empathy must be our primary at- Women’s ordinations are not a lively Irish folk band. David DeCosse is the director of tribute” (p.21). sanctioned by the Catholic Church, campus ethics programs at Santa There are many who recognize which says that any woman who is KADIEV, cont’d from p.3 Clara University, and a friend of the that the U.S. empire is on its death- ordained, and anyone who ordains Los Angeles Catholic Worker. bed. Its military and foreign wars, her, is automatically excommuni- take on the cause of food sharing as well as its Wall Street bankers, cated. In 1994, Pope John Paul II with the homeless?” His answer have bankrupt the treasury, and told bishops that only men can be came forth from his crackly and ordained because Jesus’ 12 apostles forceful voice that communicated THE now we live off of credit debt. authentic tenderness: “I used to In the not too distant future, the were all men, because it is the tradi- tion of the Church, and because it is go with my angel wife, Maureen world’s creditors will turn off the A. Abbott, to share food with the EMPIRE faucet. Hedges quotes Daniel Ber- in accordance with God’s plan. When asked by the Vatican to people on the street. We did this By CORY RANDALL rigan: “All empires fall, but when for 12 years, until she died in 1991. the U.S. empire falls, it will take so recant his position or be excommuni- My soul is set afire cated, Bourgeois said he could not do Then I founded a living memorial in many with them.” her honor: ‘The Maureen A. Abbott Behind the prison wire When I read Hedges book, I could so without betraying his conscience. Where madmen conspire He said so in his response to the Love Thy Neighbor Foundation.” not help but remember the words “We have been cooking and sharing For something more of Protestant theologian Wil- Vatican, noting that priests who Drugs money war abused children, as well as the bish- meals ever since.” He paused and liam Stringfellow, who said in his chuckled, “I had to sue the city in And dead men never get up off seminal book, An Ethic for Chris- ops and cardinals who turned a blind the floor to testify eye, were not excommunicated. 1999 to secure the right to continue tians and Other Aliens in a Strange our program. Now again this year.” The truth mixed with a lie Land: “Babel means the inver- Bourgeois’ advocacy has since ex- Keeping the work coming in panded to include gay marriage. Arnold impressed me with his sion of language, verbal inflation, zeal and I had to say so. “You have And prisons packed full of white libel, rumor euphemism and coded Catholic teaching calls gay people men to chastity and says gay people must a lot of passion for this cause.” language, rhetorical wantonness, “Yeah, I am a tiger,” laughed this And the streets is full of blood redundancy, hyperbole, such profu- be accepted with respect, compas- and sin sion and sensitivity. It refers to old freedom fighter. sion in speech and sound that com- “Arnold, why do you think the And we are aggravated to the prehension is impaired, nonsense, homosexuality as “objectively dis- ordered” and homosexual activities city is against this simple act of fullest extent never repent sophistry, jargon, noise, incoher- compassion?” I asked. For revolutionary intent ence, a chaos of voices and tongues, as “acts of grave depravity” and “in- trinsically disordered” because they Mr. Abbott proceeded to break it Cause I know that there is some- falsehood, blasphemy. And in all of down plainly: “The city is con- thing better this, babel means violence.” close the sex act to the gift of life. Bourgeois calls the teaching cruel trolled by the mega rich and they Than hood rats chasing cheddar Babylon is the city of babel. The and believes it can lead to suicide. order the city to get rid of the home- Constantly watching my back language and liturgies of empire “The Catholic Church’s teaching less. But the homeless have rights, Cause from 360 degrees can worship in Imperial Rome were on homosexuality contributes to and just like anybody else. We are sup- come an attack babel. The Nazis practiced babel gives license to bullying, especially posed to be a classless society, and From the feds or from friends against the Jews. Babel spawns in high school and colleges, and in I have fought for that freedom my turned to rats racism. In Orson Wells book, 1984, society, and it must stop. It must whole life. However, the city lead- And in here the talk is about babel is the way advanced technoc- stop,” he said. “It’s got to stop. ers seem to have the motto, ‘Let the parole racy dehumanizes persons. By the Enough.” homeless starve for their own good.’” But the price for your freedom is 1970s in the U.S., successive regimes Among those who attended Bour- Mr. Abbott affirmed that he de- ya soul had been so captivated by babel that geois’ speech was the Rev. Irene rives most of his strength from his But I just can’t let mine go babel becomes the means of ruling Scaramazza of Gahanna, who was faith, referencing Leviticus 19:9-10 So I resist and take a fighter’s the nation, the principle form of ordained a priest in May by the for biblical inspiration in sharing stance coercion employed by the governing Association of Roman Catholic with the poor. He is also part of And refuse to dance their little- authorities against human beings. Women Priests movement. She said an interfaith coalition that includes o-dance Babylon is of course code for the many women in the movement have Protestants and Catholics. And patiently wait for my chance Roman Empire, but includes all friends who are male Roman Catho- “Thank you, Arnold, for the bold While in the meantime empires, including the U.S empire. lic priests and who support women’s and courageous stand you have I write about crooked plot lines And all empires eventually fall. ordination but, unlike Bourgeois, taken,” I concluded. And chalky outlines This from St. John, the imprisoned are afraid to speak out. “I am just a regular guy doing And try not to think of twin tow- evangelist on the island of Patmos: “He is a powerful voice,” she said. what he thinks is right.” He said. ers knocked out the sky “Babylon is fallen, Babylon is fallen, “You have to admire someone Mr. Abbott has written four books, And Americans sent to foreign Babylon is fallen to rise no more” who speaks truth to power. It is one titled When in Doubt Blame countries to die (Rev.18:2). Ω pretty awesome.” Ω a Jew, which can be found on his All for a lie website: lovethyneighbor.org. All for the glory of Empire. Ω Jeff Dietrich is a Los Angeles For more information, go to: When I called him back to con- Catholic Worker community mem- cta-columbus.org and firm some facts, he was just about Cory Randall is a prisoner in ber, and editor of the Agitator. roybourgeoisjourney.org to start cooking for a community Texas and frequently corresponds meal. The following day he had with community member Bobby planned to fly to Washington for a VIVIANO, cont’d from p.2 HUCKABY, cont’d from p.2 Hicks. He can be reached at: hearing on this issue in front of a Cory Randall, #10270379, oppressed and natural resources grace without discipleship, grace congressional committee, just like Beaumont Med, P.O. Box 26040; the Jimmy Stewart film, Mr. Smith exploited with the help of the U.S. without the cross, grace without Beaumont TX, 77720. military and investments, he said. Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” Goes to Washington. But in this

6 / APRIL 2015 ON THE LINE sible for. They include Iraq—1 mil- is inappropriate if not openly provoca- RESISTANCE UPDATE lion people (5% of the population), PALESTINIAN DEATHS tive to Russia. —firedoglake.com Afghanistan—220,000 people, and Transform Now Plowshares activists, Pakistan—80,000 people, for a total Palestinians suffered a dramatic in- of 1.3 million human lives destroyed. U.S. TROOPS ON Sr. Megan Rice, 85, Michael Walli, 66, crease in fatalities in 2014, with more RUSSIAN BORDER and Greg Boertje-Obed, 59, appeared However, they also indicate that the killed by Israeli attacks than in any in 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, number in all three nations could be other period since the 1967 war. A in Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 12, in in excess of 2 million people. In their new U.N. report disclosed that, over- For the first time in history, the U.S. an effort to overturn their sabotage report they did not include victims all, Israel was responsible for 2,314 has sent troops and equipment to Rus- convictions. Attorney Marc Shapiro of U.S.-led wars in Yemen, Somalia, Palestinian deaths and 17,125 injuries sia’s border. Sent to Riga Latvia, was argued that trespassing and property Libya, Syria, and other nations by during the last calendar year. The 750 U.S. Army and military vehicles destruction charges could have been U.S. drone warfare. Nor were deaths study concludes that Israel’s 50-day and equipment, including tanks, infan- justified, but the sabotage charge was among an estimated 3 million Iraqi assault on Gaza last summer was the try fighting vehicles, artillery pieces, an overreach. At issue is whether the refugees included. —sputniknews.com most significant driver of casualties. and helicopters, which was followed activists’ July 28, 2012, nonviolent —commondreams.org Between July 7 and August 26, Israel by the First Brigade, 3rd Infantry protest injured the national defense killed at least 2,200 Palestinians and Division, Rock of Marne, based at Ft. by disrupting operations at the Y-12 wounded 11,231 during the massacre. Stewart, GA., to support Operation National Security Complex (nuclear ANNIVERSARIES According to the report, 1,492 of those Atlantic Resolve, a NATO training op- bomb plant) in Oak Ridge, TN. If the killed were civilians, with an addition- eration to take place in Estonia, Latvia, sabotage charges are overturned, there This year marks a few notable an- al 123 listed as unverified. At least 551 and Lithuania. will be a resentencing hearing to ad- niversaries: ” The 150th anniversary children also were killed. The report —rickrozoff.wordpress.com just the minimum and maximum sen- of the end of the Civil War, and an end also notes that 71 Israelis, 66 of them tences, which most likely will result in to slavery. This year also is the 50th soldiers, were killed, in addition to one DECLINING INTEREST shorter sentences for all three activists. anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, foreign national. IN THE ENVIRONMENT However, there is no indication of which was recently commemorated —commondreams.org when or how the court will rule. Cur- with the reenactment of the march rently, Sr. Megan is serving a three- According to a Gallup poll, U.S. from Selma to Montgomery; yet also citizens care less about the environ- year sentence, while Michael and Greg remembering that racial prejudice, U.S. TROOPS TO UKRAINE are serving five-year sentences. ment and global warming today than attacks on voting rights, and forms of they did decades ago. People were —transformnowplowshares.word- slavery remain very much alive and According to a Department of Defense press.com more concerned about the environ- present in 2015, as seen in Ferguson, press release, the Pentagon is sending ment in the late 1980s and 1990s, but MO and other cities across the nation, 290 U.S. troops into Ukraine to train interest began to wane in the early U.S. WAR CASUALTIES including here in Los Angeles; and Ukrainian military units in April. The 2000s. Since then it has remained at slavery in the farmlands of Immo- training will reportedly occur in the historic lows. The survey was issued to kolee, FL among other areas and Ukrainian city of Yavoriv near the 1,025 U.S. adults in early March. Most On the 12th anniversary of the Iraq circumstances. Though much was Ukraine-Poland border. The U.S. sol- people surveyed were more concerned invasion, Nobel Prize-winning NGO accomplished in the above events to diers will be from the 173rd Airborne about drinking polluted water and less Physicians for Social Responsibility commemorate, it is obvious that we Brigade based in Vicenza, Italy. As worried about climate change. released a report—Body Count: Casu- still have a very long road ahead of Assistant Secretary of State for Eu- —time.com alty Figures after 10 Years of the War us to bring about authentic freedom ropean and Eurasian Affairs Victoria on Terror—detailing a conservative and justice for all. We must not allow Nuland herself pointed out, the act of On The Line is compiled and number of deaths the U.S. is respon- injustice to prevail. sending troops to train Ukraine forces edited by Mike Wisniewski.

shepherd dishwashing super star met up with us again in lovely Guada- kudos to cool young artist J.R., who Arnal, bread maven and head line lupe, where our sister house, Beatitude designed and painted the fantastic watcher Ann Mulder, Jed and I to an House, was hosting a house-blessing protest signs. exciting Clippers’ basketball game. for their new digs. A new peace pole Classic Russian-speaking Juliya We wish to express our gratitude to was hoisted up, and more importantly Fortuna, from Philly, spent her spring Miguel for his stellar effort and we are a beautiful new clinic serving the break joyously serving up hot sauce thankful for the help that he and all indigent farm workers was up and run- and passing out sporks at the kitchen. our kitchen volunteers give, because ning. Just a few days later Tensie and Studying to become a Physician’s without all of you we would not be I conducted a small workshop on the Assistant, we hope to see her again able to continue dishing up the tastiest Catholic Worker movement at every- sometime. food on Skid Row. one’s favorite theologian Ched Myers Well regarded professor and widely Our Friday afternoon culture cri- birthday bash and discipleship confer- published academic writer David tiques continue to be riveting. Newly ence in Ojai. DeCosse also spent his spring break minted doctoral degree recipient and On the first weekend of March our away from Santa Clara U. watering kitchen volunteer Liz Quiroz presented brilliant Saturday organizer and all our kitchen garden, stirring up beans, an insightful, if not frightening, picture around talent Mike Wiz traveled to and making insightful comments THE on how the American public’s positive the Bay area to attend the Pacific Life during our study of Jacques Ellul’s perception and acceptance of torture Community Faith and Resistance Technique for Friday Culture Critique. have increased by leaps and bounds Retreat, feting long time activists Bob Dave we will certainly welcome you since 9/11. What with Fox News, and and Janet Aldridge, who riled up the back anytime. HOUSE the TV series 24, it is no surprise that willing activists into blocking the gates Jeff’s northwest region book tour most Christians now believe torturing at Lockheed Martin, in Sunnyvale, started out with an international JOURNAL our enemies is acceptable, despite the resulting in 12 arrests. flavour in the lovely city of Vancouver release of the heavily edited Congres- That same week most of the rest before moving down to Washington sional report testifying to the inef- of community traveled to Las Vegas State and Oregon. Jeff was also a big fectiveness of torture as a means to for the Stop the Drones Protest at hit at the local chapter of Pax Christi While the rest of the nation battled achieving actionable intelligence. Liz’s Creech Air Force Base. It was quite snow and freezing weather, summer gathering at St. Camillus Center under sharp presentation was only matched by eerie watching those creepy machines the able auspices of our most loyal burst forth in L.A., blazing in with a her hard working attitude during the taking off and landing continuously, pair of record-breaking heat waves Wednesday presider, Fr. Chris Pon- holiday season week she spent with us knowing what murderous effect these net. Special thanks go out to Fr. Chris to herald the end of winter and the helping out at our soup kitchen. weapons have on the mostly non- beginning of spring. We are mindful for a beautiful life-affirming pres- Palestinian George Abu Shakur combatant victims in the Middle-East. ence at the Archdiocesan Religious of the problems this presents to many screened an award winning film We received warm hospitality from or our guests. In addition to having to Education Congress. Rufo Noriega focusing on the conflict in the Holy Gary and Julia at our sister house in and I passed out hundreds of Agita- find sufficient water and shade, the 30+ Land, and the effects of torture on Las Vegas, St. John the Baptist House. degree temperature swings between tors and made sure that anyone who Palestinian prisoners by the Israeli It was quite inspiring to participate in wanted a subscription received one. night and day make it very difficult to spy and occupation apparatus. We bid their weekly protest at the new Federal lug around the extra gear needed for Much thanks also to Rufo who spent a fond farewell to young George as Building in Las Vegas. Bobby and five weeks living and working with us the still cold nights. To that end we are he heads back home to Haifa, after a Karan also woke up at the cock’s crow truly grateful to our generous support- molding himself into a capable food long and faithful stint ministering to for early morning prayer and serving flow stalwart and a go to main dish ers who make our shopping cart project the sore feet of our friends on the Row on the breakfast line. We also helped possible and to Dr. Miguel Trejo for server, and still carving out enough and learning to be a solid presence at prepare the meal for the protest camp, time to lead a moving Latin Chant retrofitting and welding nearly two- our kitchen. dishing up tasty vegetarian minestrone dozen damaged carts. Miguel has also Vespers for the Feast of the Annun- Former community member Grace soup with a side of scrumptious sau- ciation, and cut yet another beautiful been diligently repairing and smooth- returned from Kansas via Oregon sage kibble and a spectacular salad. ing out the jutting concrete tripping linoleum block for this month’s Agita- to spend two weeks with us. Former Karan was one of 34 activists who tor cover. hazards in our dining garden, and he community member Allison McGil- participated in the nonviolent civil still finds time to mix our Saturday livray dropped by for a quick cuppa- disobedience action, which shut down House Journal is written by salad, not to mention to generously joe just before Ash Wednesday, then both roads into the base. Special Faustino Cruz.

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