Peace Activists Invade Blackwater

Run time: 09:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNTLaJe_JCI   Posted on YouTube: October 22, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 22, 2007 By DU Member: 143tbone Views on DU: 955

 

This action was by a group of people called Catholic Workers.
Can someone tell me about them? There is another video out
there that I will try to find in which they were also involved
and in which I was terribly impressed. 

And they know what makes powerful protest. They've been arrested for planting corn over a nuclear missile silo.

I have Kathy Kelly's book http://www.google.ca/search%3Fhl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%253Aen-US%253Aofficial%26hs%3DlXp%26q%3Dkathy%2Bkelly%2Bpekin%2Bprison%26btnG%3DSearch%26meta%3D&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail">Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison. She's one of their organizers. I couldn't put it down.
And here's one of her articles on CounterPunch.

"The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person.

Today over 185 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and foresaken. Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms."

http://www.catholicworker.org/


While the movement is Catholic, in the best sense of our tradition, you can be certain that neither the present nor recent past pope would have had much use for them. Their challenge to capitalism, commitment to the poor, dedication to peace and the forsaken are not the kinds of things that are institution friendly.

Some of their communities are on those government lists of dangerous organizations.

Thanks, great work; some religionists are fantastic!