Los Angeles Catholic Worker

Here’s hoping that everyone had as great a Thanksgiving as we did! Check out the photos here.

Allison and Margaret from the LACW joined 25,000 other people last week for the 18th annual School of the Americas protest at Fort Benning Georgia. Click here for pictures of the event. For more information visit SOA Watch at soaw.org.

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.

Catholic Workers Jeff Dietrich and Ed Pilolla, regular kitchen volunteer Dick Hieser and five other determined people blocked the doors of the Pasadena City College Military Recruitment Center for five hours last Friday. The eight risking arrest and the crowd of supporters spent the time holding signs for the passing traffic and talking to the young recruits. Though there was a large police presence no one was arrested. After five hours the marines who were in charge gave up and closed for the day. Click here for pictures of the action

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.

Here are the photos from our protest at Vandenberg and our visit with the Guadalupe Catholic Workers.

The LAPD and the Mayor have recently been celebrating the supposed success of the “Safer Cities Initiative” on Skid Row. Gary Blasi, a professor at the UCLA School of Law and a 30 year veteran of Skid Row Issues has published a report called Policing Our Way Out of Homelessness? which refutes nearly all of their claims.

We had our annual Sister House Retreat last weekend at Casa De Maria in Santa Barbara. Liz McAlister from Jonah house came out to give a workshop and lead us in prayer. In spite of the heavy rain, (or maybe because of it) a good time was had by all. Click here for photos.

Here’s the new Agitator.

In this issue:

• Attacking the Pillars of Pax Americana: An Interview with Tom Hayden
• New Sister House in Mexico by Jorge Manly-Gil
• Nonviolent Victory by Jeff Dietrich
• Military Families Speak Out by Pat Alviso and Jeff Merrick
• “Free” and Ruined Lives by Layla Anwar
• Who Wants to Live in a Neighborhood Like That by Ed Pilolla
• Skid Row Blog Girl by Allison McGillivray
• I Was in Jail With Paris Hilton by Dr. Mongo Taribubu

Join the Los Angeles Catholic Worker for a protest at Vandenberg Air Force Base. This event is part of a world wide network of protests and vigils during Keep Space for Peace Week. For more information call 323-267-8789.