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Oct 11 2021
Sr. Megan Rice – Rest in Peace.
Sr. Megan Rice, anti-war, Plowshares, and social justice activist, joined the Heavenly Cloud of Witnesses on October 10, 2021, at her religious order residence, the Society of the Holy Child Jesus (SHCJ), in Rosemont, PA. She was 91. Her death was caused by congestive heart failure. Sr. Megan, one of the Transform Now Plowshares activists …
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Oct 01 2021
This nation’s Fate: Oligarchy Or Autocracy
By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost The competing systems of power in the United States are divided between oligarchy and autocracy. There are no other alternatives. Neither are pleasant. Each have peculiar and distasteful characteristics. Each pays lip service to the fictions of democracy and constitutional rights. And each exacerbates the widening social and …
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Sep 29 2021
October 2021 Catholic Agitator
The October 2021 edition of the Catholic Agitator is now online. In this issue: Coming Through The Pandemic by Matt Harper Book Review: The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Week by Mike Wisniewski Book Review: Let Us Dream: The path To A Better Future by David DeCosse Doing Right By …
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Sep 24 2021
John August Swanson – R.I.P.
It is with great sadness to announce that this amazing person, artist extraordinaire, and our dear and longtime friend, supporter, and social justice and peace activist, John August Swanson, 83, joined the glorious Heavenly Cloud of Witnesses early Thursday morning, September 23. Funeral arrangements are pending the completion of the St. Camillus Center chapel renovation, …
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Sep 17 2021
Nonviolence Works!
Free Online Peace Conference: October 2, 2021: Make a difference for peace by learning how powerful nonviolent resistance is as a force for change. A family of 13 speakers and panelists have been assembled to share in an empowering way their story about peace and nonviolence. At this year’s online conference, Kathy Kelly will return, …
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Sep 13 2021
Questioning The Troubled Legacy Of The Catholic Church’s Missions
As the Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese began a Jubilee Year to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of Mission San Gabriel Arcàngel, a small contingent of Catholic Workers and supporters participated in vigils at Mission San Gabriel and at the Cathedral to ask questions, and listen to other Catholics who hold the complexity of …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.lacatholicworker.org/wp/2021/09/13/questioning-the-troubled-legacy-of-the-catholic-churchs-missions/
Sep 10 2021
The Campaign To Free Jessica Reznicek,
Redacted Tonight Radio – Lee Camp interviews Monty Pinger, one of the lead organizers of the campaign to free the climate activist Jessica Reznicek. Reznicek had admitted to destroying pipeline equipment being used to build the Dakota Access Pipeline. She committed her act of nonviolent civil disobedience in order to protect the land and water …
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Sep 06 2021
The Earth’s Greatest Enemy
The carbon footprint of the U.S. Empire’s military-industrial complex is the Earth’s Greatest Enemy. The largest consumer of fossil fuels and the greatest polluter on the planet. Watch this great TRAILER for the coming Abby Martin film. For more info, check out this LINK.
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Sep 05 2021
September 11 Twentieth Anniversary Statement
With the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaching, along with the highly deceptive 9/11 Commission Report, we believe that as Christians, as Catholic Workers, we have an obligation to do our own investigation into what really transpired on that fateful day that brought U.S. imperialism to unconscionable depths of depravity with two decades of torture, death, …
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Aug 30 2021
U.S. Drone Strikes in Afghanistan Are Morally Unacceptable, And Only Further the Cycle of Violence
Media statement from Pax Christi USA in response to the U.S. drone strike in Kabul on Sunday, August 29: “As The Washington Post and other media outlets report on the deaths of at least ten Afghan civilians — including young children — as a result of a second U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Pax Christi …
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Aug 28 2021
Shut Down Creech Killer Drone Base
We want YOU to come to Shut Down Creech Fall Week of Actions – Dates: Sun, Sept 26th – Sat, Oct 2nd Shut Down Creech is just a month away! Veterans For Peace and CODEPINK have been working hard to prepare for an exciting Peace Convergence in the beautiful Nevada desert. This is a growing …
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