Jun 05 2018
The U.S Imperial War Department and Israel have joined together to develop and test the Arrow-3 Anti-Missile/Anti-Satellite “Defense” System in Kodiak Alaska. This system will be used by Israel partly at U.S. taxpayers expense. No U.S. mainstream media has covered this story. Watch the video behind this LINK to learn more.
Permanent link to this article: http://lacatholicworker.org/2018/06/05/what-is-israel-doing-in-alaska
Jun 04 2018
In December 2017, United Nation’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston, toured the U.S., beginning in California, on Skid Row in Los Angeles, investigating poverty and inequality in the U.S. The article behind this LINK is the scathing results of his report. An excerpt: “Philip Alston, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extreme poverty …
Permanent link to this article: http://lacatholicworker.org/2018/06/04/u-n-s-reality-check-on-u-s-poverty-and-inequality
Jun 01 2018
This LINK is to a lengthy good article in Commonweal magazine on Catholics growing involvement in nonviolent direct action and the need for more activism in these perilous times. An excerpt: “When forty Catholics holding rosaries were handcuffed and led away by police at the U.S. Capitol in late February during a protest to show …
Permanent link to this article: http://lacatholicworker.org/2018/06/01/traditional-disobedience-renewing-the-legacy-of-catholic-activism
May 19 2018
The article behind this LINK is very pertinent and much needed in these and future dark days of ecological devastation. We will need to grieve as the losses mount. This is a reality we MUST face and learn to deal with. We CANNOT hide from or deny what is happening and will only get worse …
Permanent link to this article: http://lacatholicworker.org/2018/05/19/ecological-grief
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May 13 2018
The following article by Brian Terrell (Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm, Maloy, Iowa) is re-posted here from the Voices For Creative Nonviolence website. “The evasions and obfuscations of these two willing technicians of state terror are chillingly similar” By Brian Terrell On May 9, Gina Haspel, Donald Trump’s choice for head of the Central …
Permanent link to this article: http://lacatholicworker.org/2018/05/13/two-interrogations-gina-haspel-and-adolf-eichmann
May 11 2018
Nuclear disarmament activists, including Catholic nuns and priests, challenge the security and legality of U.S. nuclear weapons when they break into the “Fort Knox” of uranium and a Trident nuclear submarine base. Are they criminals or prophets sending a wake-up call to the world? This LINK is to a trailer for an excellent documentary.
Permanent link to this article: http://lacatholicworker.org/2018/05/11/trailer-for-an-excellent-documentary-the-nuns-the-priests-and-the-bombs
May 09 2018
Who Should Be Indicted? by Liz McAlister (member of the Kings Bay Plowshares), May 5, 2018 Our country bound itself in 1945 to the U.N. Charter, which rendered nuclear weapons systems criminal by its purpose to “save future generations from the scourge of war.” It further directed that “all nations shall refrain from the use …
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May 08 2018
On Monday, May 7, the seven Kings Bay Plowshares activists – Liz McAlister, Steve Kelly, Carmen Trotta, Mark Colville, Martha Hennessy, Clare Grady, and Patrick O’Neill were moved to the Glynn County Detention Center, in Brunswick, Georgia. On May 10 they will appear in federal court in Brunswick. Last week, an indictment was filed by …
Permanent link to this article: http://lacatholicworker.org/2018/05/08/kings-bay-plowshares-activists-have-been-moved
May 04 2018
Press Release May 4, 2018 For more information contact: Jessica Stewart: 207.266.0919 Paul Magno: 202.321.6650 Brian Hynes: 718. 838.2636 Kings Bay Plowshares Indicted in Southern District of Georgia Federal Court On April 4, 2018, the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Liz McAlister, 78, Stephen Kelly S.J., 70, Martha …
Permanent link to this article: http://lacatholicworker.org/2018/05/04/kings-bay-plowshares-update
May 04 2018
Reflection from the Camden County Detention Facility, by Fr. Steve Kelly, S.J., Kings Bay Plowshares “Do you swear/affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you [God]?”, Dennis Apel was asked as he took the stand in Federal court for his witness at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Dennis …
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