Los Angeles Catholic Worker

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.

Two events:
On Friday Peace Witness LA is sponsoring a protest and Civil Disobedience at Pasadena City College and the military recruitment center across the street. Meet in the sculpture gardens at 12 noon.

Answer is organizing a mass march to end the war Saturday at 12 noon. Gather at Olympic and Broadway and march to the downtown Federal Buildings.

September 29th there will be a mass march and rally to end the war in Iraq. Gather at Broadway and Olympic at 12:00. For more information visit troopsoutnow.org/lasept29.html.

There will be a Stop Executions rally on October 4th at W. Temple St. and N. Spring St. at 12:00.
The gathering is part of the Walk to End Executions which starts at San Diego and ends at Sacramento. For more information visit walktostopexecutions.blogspot.com.