Los Angeles Catholic Worker

Come join the fiesta! Art, music, refreshments and fun for the kids. Catholic Worker artist Manuel Hernández will be offering his tiles, mosaics and papel picados for sale to support the new Catholic Worker in Mexico. The show lasts from 2 to 6PM at the LACW house. For more information please call (323) 267-8789

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

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.

Please join us Wednesday evening at 6:00 for mass with radical priest John Dear S.J. Father John is best known for his work against nuclear weapons and the twenty books he has written or edited.

Please Join us for our Wednesday liturgy With Liz McAlister, July 19th at 6:00 PM. Liz is a plowshares activist and co-founder of Jonah House in Baltimore Maryland. For more information call (323) 267-8789

Please join us for a talk by Richard Rohr on Monday, July 10th at 10 AM. Father Richard is a Franciscan activist priest, who founded two lay communitys, the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is best known for his books and his audio tapes.

Please join us for our Wednesday night liturgy June 28 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.

Join the Los Angeles Catholic Worker and others on Armed Forces Day at the gates of Vandenberg Air Force Base. Guest speakers include: Que Keju of the Marshall Islands, Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange and Code Pink, and Bill Mitchell of Gold Star Families for Peace. Vandenberg Air Force Base is the testing ground for the National Missile Defense program and launch-site for missile guidance and surveillance systems.

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April 23, 3 PM
Dolores Mission Church, 170 S. Gless Street, East LA.
Join the Los Angeles Catholic Worker and friends for our annual Seder meal where we will celebrate the liberation from slavery for all people. Each year our Seder meal is a lot of fun, pictures of last year’s event can be found here: http://lacatholicworker.org/g/seder05
Please call to sign up to bring a salad or desert, reserve a seat and get directions.
(323) 267-8789

April 14 @ 3 PM
Gather at 300 N. Los Angeles St.
Join the Los Angeles Catholic Worker, friends and volunteers as we process through downtown LA to locations of darkness where Christ continues to be crucified.
Photos of last years event can be found here: http://lacatholicworker.org/g/stations-05/