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Laurel Hall
June 19, 2005 at 10:29 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Hooray! You’ve got a website! I’m t-i-r-e-d of typing out parts of CW articles to pass on to others (that IS okay isn’t it?) At last, I can C&P them. Wonderful! Thanks!
carol fennelly
June 21, 2005 at 4:35 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
my dear friends. i love your website, and am bookmarking it so i can get here easily to see what
you are doing. you continue to inspire me and give me hope.
much love and many blessings, carol fennelly
Dick Heiser
June 24, 2005 at 1:28 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Check this from CODE PINK:
http://www.bushflash.com/y2.html
wes howard-brook
July 8, 2005 at 5:41 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Here’s a link to the Christian Century article about Bible study and Empire, summarizing the movement in recent years and including the work of Tom Wright, whom I told Jeff about on our last visit:
http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=388.
Enjoy!
Great to see everyone again as always.
wes
Meredith
July 31, 2005 at 10:55 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Good on ya! Love the website! Meredith Males
James Choi
September 1, 2006 at 2:06 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
wow first comment in one year. i just want to thank you guys for being so friendly and making me feel at home. I will definitely keep coming out keep up the good work!
Virginia
September 30, 2008 at 1:55 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Thank you for the good work you do! It is and should be an inspiration to us all.
Carlos
May 13, 2009 at 8:36 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I love the work you guys do!!! Keep it up!! I would love to get involved as a volunteer, I live in Spain but I am willing to go there. God Bless you all!!
Carlos
James Kifer
June 21, 2009 at 7:48 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
June 21, 2009 A Brief Explanation of Why We Have What We Do Not Want
Variable One: Desire for Peace
Indicator: Public Opinion Against Afghanistan War
59% Against; subject to changeability over the last several months
Variable Two: Fear (type: xenophobia)
Indicator: Public Opinion Against Immigrants
69% Against; has been steady for two years.
The American people are against the Afghan War; however, xenophobia runs high. This explains to some extent why we have what we are against. People are afraid to be against the war for various reasons, most linked to fear. Even if (as it is portratyed) Americans fear that immigrants “are too expensive due to entitlements,” this still provides enough justification to keep a war on; we fear Mexicans (they are different); therefore, we must fear Afghans more (they are more different). Xenophobia and the now very highly emphasized falsehood that rights are dependent on feats of arms will serve the cause of warfare well. Stay tuned for wars without end, until the end. Everyone is entitled to the benefits of warfare–that is the most human of rights!
colleen
July 7, 2009 at 10:09 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I was at the Hippies Kitchen for one morning in August 2006 volunteering. Myself and A catholic priest Fr Don were in LA after attending the Celebrate Recovery Summit at Saddleback Church.We had come over from Australia.Our morning at rhe Catholic Worker Soup Kitchen was such an inspiration to us.I remember Faustino , the Dietrichs and others .Thank you so much for giving us that opportunity and God Bless you and your work
Joan Fox
August 11, 2010 at 8:18 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I lived in the House of Ammon, Hubbardston MA back in 1971, with Fr Bernie Gilgun et al. I once had a copy of “Do Not Neglect Hospitality” by Harry Murray, but lent it out and it did not return to me. If there is a copy out there somewhere that someone would like to send me, or if anyone knows where I can look for a copy, I would so much appreciate it. Our house is discussed in that book and I would cherish having it again.
Thank you very much.
Joan
Stanton J. Price
August 30, 2010 at 4:29 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Chris Hedges article is one of the finest articles on the state of the world that I have read. It is impossible to challenge any of his conclusions. I wish, though, he had covered some very specific problems and maybe he will in another issue of the Agitator. For example, there is a great deal to be said about the opposition to the Muslim cultural center in Lower Manhattan. What really troubles me, as a Jew, is the concept of collective guilt that the opponents of this center are expressing. All Muslims are somehow guilty of the acts of a few. Even groups that should know better, like the ADL, are using collective guilt. The Catholic Church has finally stopped applying collective guilt to the Jews, or at least I hope it has.
I believe that many people have to express hate. This includes disadvantaged people in our country who don’t really understand who the targets of their anger should be. It is not possible now to publicly express hatred against blacks, Jews. Catholics and Asians. The LGBT community is a diminishing target because it is able to fight back. That leaves the undocumented and Muslims as the only scapegoats. So they are taking the full brunt of the anger that should be directed at corporate America. I’m sure Mr. Hedges can put all this in better language than I’ve been able to put together and I hope very much that he will write an article about the scapegoats on the new century.
I only differ from Mr. Hedges in that I regard Simone Weil as a narcissistic anorexic who did nothing but cause problems for her family and everyone around her and took up a much-needed hospital bed in wartime London. I don’t think she was a Christian any more than she was a Jew. Reading what she wrote gives the impression she didn’t think any religion was good enough for her. She did have a brother, though, who became a world-class mathematician and contributed a great deal to the world.
Anthony Glenn Miller
September 14, 2011 at 4:09 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
What area of your work is in need of the most volunteers? Thanks for the wonderful testimonies and witness on your website.
Peace, tony miller
Joseph Maizlish
December 16, 2012 at 4:18 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
LACW and friends,
I just saw these three youtube video items about CW founder Dorothy Day. Three more are to be posted soon:
From: Charles Muth
Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:48 PM
We posted this 3 segments [of a video series about Dorothy Day] this past week:
Sainthood cause for Dorothy Day (4 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyVN1VZcGJs&list=UUDfNrxA5dMp0co1siQOLrjg&index=5
Who is Dorothy Day? (5 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CphJLmS8-Fc&list=UUDfNrxA5dMp0co1siQOLrjg&index=3
Dorothy Day’s unpopular stance (5 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7s09HNJIZI&list=UUDfNrxA5dMp0co1siQOLrjg&index=2
We expect to post 3 more soon.
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Thanks and let me know if you would like for me to send you the links to the other segments of the series.
Chaz Muth
Multimedia Journalist
Catholic News Service
3211 Fourth Street NE
Washington DC 20017
202.541.3276 office
202.541.3255 fax
cmuth@catholicnews.com
http://www.catholicnews.com
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admin
December 20, 2012 at 6:57 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Hi Joe:
Thanks for the links. Yes, please keep us updated. Many blessings.
Peace,
Mike
randy walburger
December 26, 2012 at 7:51 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I just read Jeff Dietrich’s column, “Surprised by skid row.” dated 12/25/12
The focus of Jeff’s piece is about an honest homeless man, Ernie who returned a check for $2,500 he found in a dumpster. Isn’t it time to offer the 32,000 homeless people in LA County stranded every night without shelter a safe nights rest every night. If you go to http://www.hopemakingchange.org/sleep station you will see a realistic and practical way to safeguard people who can’t get a shelter bed and supply them with a private sleeping module and private lockbox, toilets and shower and a stand alone steel container to put their stuff in during the day all linked to caseworker support. The Sleep Stations can be purchased and sited by the County and operated by caseworker agencies, i.e. the Midnight Mission, etc.
You can email me for more information or just go to hopemakingchange.org
Randy Walburger
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