Los Angeles Catholic Worker

Join the movement to put the declaration of peace into action! On September 25th the LACW’s Jeff Dietrich and
other local activists will be blockading the Hollywood Military Recruiting Center to call for an end to the war in Iraq. The protest will be from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. We’ll meet at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament and march to the7060 Hollywood Blvd recruiting center. For more information contact Steve Gibson at (213) 489-1900 or sgibson@afsc.org.

For those interested in being arrested, you are invited to attend one or more of these Non-violence trainings.

• September 5, —Spirit of Non-violence— Theory, practice and spirit.
  634 South Spring Street, LA 90014 7:00 PM
• September 11, —LA Catholic Worker Group—Faith-based Non-violence.
  362 N. Brittania St. LA 90033 7:00 PM
• September 14, —NLG Training— Law, police and courts.
  3300 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90010 7:30 PM

Jeff Dietrich who was sentenced Friday Aug 18 to thirty days in jail for a March civil disobedience protest of the Iraq war was released Sunday morning Aug. 20 after spending only 36 hours in lock-up!
“I was freed by grace “he said, “the same grace that prevents all of our homeless friends from doing punitive jail time for insignificant ‘quality of Life crimes’. The jails are over crowded and the sheriff is forced to release all ‘non-violent’ offenders after they have served a mere one tenth of their sentence. Thank God for ACLU law suits that prevent the authorities from packing the already over crowded jails and making an unbearable situation even worse”

Today Jeff went to court to be sentenced for his March 20th action commemorating the third anniversary of the Iraq War. He told the judge that he pled proudly guilty of protesting this immoral and illegal war, and was sentenced to 30 days in LA County Jail. After lunch with Catherine and the rest of the community he turned himself in at 3PM.

Click here to see photos of the demonstration.

Come join the Catholic Workers and others for the Keep Space for Peace Week protest. Speakers will include Nadia McCaffrey of Gold Star Families Speak Out and Jackie Cabasso of the Western States Legal Foundation. Vandenberg Air Force Base is the testing ground for the National Missile Defense program and launch-site for missile guidance and surveillance systems. For more information visit www.vpeaceldf.org.

Our summer internship is over once again, but we all had a great time. To see photos of some of our activities click on Summer Program 2006

For those interested in next summer’s internship click here.