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Dublin - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970 Evening with Martha Hennessy Granddaughter of Dorothy Day-U.S. Radical & Founder of Catholic Worker
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 Monday November 10, 2008 14:28 by Dublin Catholic Worker
An Evening with Martha Hennessy Granddaughter of American 2oth. Century Radical and Founder of the Catholic Worker movement Dorothy Day
7.30 pm Sunday, November 16th.
The Teachers Club
36 Parnell Sqaure
Dublin
More info Ph. 087 918 4552
-Music from Paul O'Toole
-A Guest Academic appraises the Catholic Worker contribution to the peace and justice movement.
-Ciaron O'Reilly on the recent experiments with the Catholic Worker in England, Scotland and Ireland.
-Martha Hennessy on the radical legacy left by her grandmother Dorothy Day and her experiences growing up in the Catholic Worker.
Martha Hennesey Opens the 75th. anniversary gathering of the Catholic Worker movement, Worcester, Mass, U.S.A. 2008
Audio
http://www.pieandcoffee.org/2008/07/11/martha/
Reports, Audio (academic and movement), Photos from the 75th. annivesrsary Conference
http://www.pieandcoffee.org/cw2008/
Doorthy Day was a suffragette, anarchist and a radical journalist in the New York left scene in the '20's writing for "The Masses" and jailed for her opposition to WW1. Dorothy converted to Catholicism and in 1933, along with French street philosopher Peter Maurin, intiated the Catholic Worker newsapaper and movement.
The Catholic Worker movement continues today, with a remarkable coherency of belief and praxis given its decentralised nature, with 180 communities predominantly in the United States but also in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Belgium, England, Germany and The Netherlands. Rejecting state funding while practising the "acts of mercy" offering shelter to the homeless, feeding the hungry, visiting the imprisoned etc.
Over the last 75 years Catholic Workers have contributed greatly to the development of a faith based anarcho pacifist praxis of nonviolent resistance to the warmaking state. Catholic Workers were interned in WW2 and were the first to burn their draft cards publicly in the U.S. in the early years of the Vietnam war, many participated in the Berrigan led draft board raids of that period http://c9.mdch.org/ . Over the last three decades Catholic Workers have participated in the plowshares actions of direct nonviolent disarmament www.plowsaharesactions.org and have deployed as a nonviolent presence to war zones in Central and South America, East Timor and Iraq.
The Catholic Worker has attracted participation, pracitcal and financial support from people of a variety of faith and nonfaith backgrounds. Some of the more well known having been Abbie Hoffman, Martin Scorcese, Martin Sheen, John and Joan Cusack, Alex Cox, Utah Philips, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton but the movement is largey sustained by the solidairty of more anonymous folks.
The presence of the Catholic Worker in Ireland is very much tied in the public mind to Irish complicity in the ongoing war on Iraq and the Pitstop Ploughshares action at Shannon Airport in Feb 2003 www.peaceontrial.com the three trials and acquittal of the defendants the subject of Harry Browne's recent book "Hammered by the Irish" (AK Press/Counterpunch) but also included work with homeless activist community building as a basis for further resistance and solidarity.
This evening will be opened to questions and discussion after speakers contributions to explore aspects of interest. Should be a good night!
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VIDLINK - Martha Hennesey opens 75th. Anniversary Gathering Worcester, Mass. USA
http://www.pieandcoffee.org/2008/11/15/snow-ghost-commu...22043
N16 08 - Approx 50 folks gathered at Dublin's Teachers Club for a Sunday evening of reflection on the Catholic Worker movement.
The audience was primarily made up of folks who had accompanied the Pitstop Ploughshares through their 03 action at Shannon and three trials, as well as some folks with experience of the movement in the U.S.
Initial contribution from peace studies academic Ian Atack reflected on the Catholic Workers ploughshares action at Shannon Airport in 03 www.peaceontrial.com and its contribution and relation to the broader anti-war movement in Ireland.
Ciaron O'Reilly shared reflections on the Catholic Worker movement in England and Ireland over the past decade. The Liverpool Catholic Worker that sprung up in the wake of organising work around the 1996 Seeds of Hope Ploughsares (£2.5 million damage to a British Aerospace Hawk fighter bound for Inonesia's war on East Timor) trial and had a focus on long term hospitality to East Timorese refugees, a short term hospitality to families of Irish prisoners incarcerated in HMP Walton Liverpool and surrounding jails.
The Liverpool CW community kept a steady rhythym of resistance to Brisith Aerospace and its arms exports to Indonesia and solidarity with the occupied people of East Timor. BAe hit back with high court injunctions and the community was infiltrated by BAe agents. The Liverpool CW concluded around the time the Indonesian military left East Timor.
The Oxford Catholic Worker started in the early-90's and initially came out of Clive's experience volunteering with the CW in New York City. Oxford CW shifted its outreach from street homeless to facilitating assylim seekers release form nearby CamPsfield Detention Centre by providing a bail address. Sr. Susan Clarkson is now based at the Oxford house after living and working for several years with CW communities in the U.S.
A Catholic Worker support/reflection/action group that formed around the Jubilee Ploughshares 2000 action gave rise to CW communites in Oxford, Hackney and a Catholic Worker farm north of Watford. Maria from the CW farm community was at Sunday's meeting in Dublin. Like other Catholic Worker communities in Europe (Amsterdam, Hamburg, Gents) the hospitality is focussed primarily on refugees with a strong anti-war resistance focus. The Hackney community also runs a cheap cafe three days a week for marginalised folks and a free soup kitchen for info on farm and Hacney CW's see www.londoncatholicworker.org
The Catholic Worker in Dublin is not presently robust. It came together in 02 in response to Irish involvement in the war and closed its house following the acquittal and dispersal of the Pitstop Ploughshares www.peaceontrial.com Catholic Workers maintain a weekly anti-war vigil at the GPO and the past year has been mostly focused around anti-war events archiving the ploughshares action.
There have been several unsuccessful attempts to get a rhythym of liturgy and reflection going, but activity remains sporadic. Participants are involved in homeless shelter, child rearin', teaching, peace and justice work etc There remains a broad network of folks from various backgrounds who respect and feel comfortable with CW style of activity and have built up a high level of trust from the 02-06 years of DCW activism. These folks tend to lose orbit of each other in the absence of DCW organising, reflection and action.
The Catholic Worker is a radical tradition that may be unearthed and explored by anybody at anytime.The Catholic Worker is a movement of radical discipleship open to all regardless of faith or nonfaith backgrounds attempting to practise the acts of mercy, nonviolent resistance & solidarity and realise/build community. One can undertake these activities where ever one finds oneself located (ghetto, suburbia, prison, campus, etc.) The Catholic Worker is also specific projects often quite tentative experiments in truth...hospitality houses, soup runs, resistance communities etc. Check the community directory section of www.catholicworker.org
Martha spoke movingly about her grandmother Dorothy Day, her mother Tamar who passed away this year and the legacy of the Catholic Worker these women left. Here is some film footage of Martha opening the 75th. Anniversary of the Catholic Worker Conference in Worcester, USA this year.....
http://www.pieandcoffee.org/2008/11/15/snow-ghost-commu...ring/