Los Angeles Catholic Worker

The “Fast For Our Future” campaign will begin in Los Angeles on October 15th, 2008, three weeks before the November 4th presidential election. Over 100 people will go on a hunger strike in order to mobilize our community to vote for immigrant rights.
Be in solidarity with the fasters including the LACW’s Margaret Johnson. We must get 1,000,000 people to sign the pledge to vote for immigrant rights. Check out the website of the Rise Movement for more information and other ways to help.

Please join the LA Catholic Worker and the American Friend’s Service Committee for a memorial service and peace walk along Palisades Park in Santa Monica. We will Meet at 11 AM on July 4th at Arlington West by the Santa Monica Pier. For more information see the flyer or call us at 323-267-8789.

The 2008 Catholic Worker gathering will be in Worcester, Massachusetts, From July 9th through the 12th. For more information visit: pieandcoffee.org/cw2008. Please RSVP as soon as possible!

Come join the party! The Catholic Worker Seder of Liberation will be at 2 PM on March 30th (the Sunday after Easter), in the basement of Dolores Mission School. Call 323-267-8789 to R.S.V.P. and sign up to bring a salad or a desert and grape juice or wine. Click here for pictures of last year’s Seder.

It’s time to rise up! March and rally to stop the war at Hollywood and Vine, March 15th at 12 noon. For more information call 213-251-1025 or visit answerla.org.

Come join us Sunday March 2, at 12 noon for an action in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the first resistance to ICBM at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Speakers will include Fr. John Dear S.J. and Bruce Gagnon. Click here to read the flyer. There will be a bus leaving from Cal-State Fullerton Parking Lot F in Orange County at 8 AM and from the Los Angeles State Historic Park A.K.A. “Cornfield Park” in Los Angeles at approximately 9 AM. To reserve a seat call the LA Catholic Worker at 323-267-8789. If you’re headed to the Cornfield Park, check out the LA Marathon detour maps first.

As a prelude to the next day’s Vandenberg protest, John Dear and Bruce Gagnon will be speaking about the Keep Space for Peace movement and nonviolence. The event will be held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, Saturday March 1st at 7PM. Click here to read the flyer.

Not able to make it to Georgia? Come and Protest the School of the Americas right here in LA! This Saturday at the Los Angles State Historic Park from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM there will be a Re-enactment of the Vigil at the Gates of Fort Benning Georgia. Speakers will include SOA Watch founder Father Roy Bourgeois, Martin Sheen, Cindy Sheehan and many others. For more information visit home.earthlink.net/~soawla.

Please join us for our Wednesday night liturgy December 19th at 6PM. Father Greg Boyle is the prophetic minister of hope and healing in the barrio and founder of Homeboy Industries. For more information, please call (323) 267-8789.

The 27th Annual Memorial of the Martyrs will be on Sunday, December 2, 2007, 7PM at Mt. Saint Mary’s College, Doheny Campus in Donahue Chapel. Please join us as we gather to remember the 4 North American women who were murdered in El Salvador and all the people who are/have been martyred before and since throughout our world. For more information, call: 626-345-1666.