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The Catholic Peace Fellowship has printed some nice Franz Jägerstätter holy cards. They are asking a donation of 25 cents per card plus something for shipping.
Jägerstätter was an Austrian Catholic beheaded by the Nazis for not joining their army. He will be officially beatified next month.
Just got back from a great weekend in Iowa at the Midwest Catholic Worker gathering.
Here’s a video taken during the group portrait, which hopefully shows both the setting and the 160+ people who were there.
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508 is a show about Worcester.
On this debut episode, Mike Benedetti talks about resistance to a Worcester Wal-Mart with Shannon Senior, and about the preliminary City Council election with Brendan Melican.
You can download the mp3, see other formats, or subscribe to the podcast feed.
You can contact the show at pieandcoffee@gmail.com, or leave a voicemail message at 508.471.3897.
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The Worcester Telegram & Gazette printed a box on the front page today with the results of the preliminary election.
These results were totally wrong. However, the front page article got the results correct.
You can find the correct results at the City website (PDF) or at Worcester Activist.
The only “Who didn’t” listed correctly was Maritza Cruz; the other 5 all made the top 12, and are thus on the ballot. Supporters of Alaimo, Callahan, Dellasante, Grandone, and Mahoney must have all been pretty sad when they found out their candidates did not, in fact, “make the cut.”
If you had randomly assigned people to categories, you would have done better than this chart.
This especially distorts the performance of Grace Ross, who was the most successful challenger, coming in at #6 and beating 2 incumbents in the process.
A chart on the front page of some editions of today’s Telegram & Gazette gave incorrect results.
They owe people a pretty serious correction.
Thanks to an anonymous friend for the scans of the paper.
Update: The apology includes a nice chart:
The template had been produced earlier in the day to determine space needs and was mistakenly left on the page by the editor.
Congrats to Claire and Scott Schaeffer-Duffy! Past recipients of the Paulist Center’s Isaac Hecker Award for Social Justice include Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez, Sister Helen Prejean, Father Fred Enman, and Paul Farmer.
Ken Hannaford Ricardi, Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, Scott Schaeffer-Duffy
Announcement:
The 2007 Isaac Hecker Award for Social Justice will be presented to Claire and Scott on Sat., Sept. 29 during the 6pm mass. A reception will follow in the auditorium. The Schaeffer-Duffys founded the Sts. Francis & Therese Catholic Worker, a lay Catholic community which shelters the homeless, promotes peace and justice, prays and lives simply in community. The Schaeffer-Duffys’ lives have exemplified faithful living, risk taking, living in solidarity with the poor and leading others toward action on behalf of peace and justice.
Claire on TV
See also:
Bruce, Scott, and a cake
The South Bend Catholic Worker today announced that they’re spinning off their drop-in center, Our Lady of the Road, as a nonprofit.
Mike Baxter announces the plans just before the end of mass at OLR.
They’re actively seeking donations to help them buy the drop-in center outright. You can’t make a tax-deductable donations at the moment, but you will soon be able to. Please contact peterclaverhouse@gmail.com for details.
OLR is open Friday and Saturday mornings, and is at 744 South Main Street in South Bend, Indiana. If you’d care to make a small donation right away, please bring by any of the following items:
Grab yourself a cup of coffee while you’re there and hang out awhile.
New GI Rights Hotline number/website
GI Rights Hotline: 877.447.4487
See also: our interview with Mike Schorsch of the GI Rights Hotline on “How to Support the Troops.”
Tin Cup at Our Lady of the Road
I love this dog. More Our Lady of the Road pix.
Two from Doc Searls
On valuing freedom more than cushy jail cells: “. . . I believe that the final success of Linux, and of free and open source software, will be an economy that values freedom and choice as much as it values scarcity.”
Maybe they should call it ButtBook: “What we call ‘online social networks’ mostly are not. They are private walled gardens that exist for reasons that are far more commercial than social. We need to remember that.”
Good Globe article about Northboro Netflix facility
Apparently staffed by temps from Worcester:
The Northborough hub processes between 60,000 and 110,000 DVDs daily, and weekend returns make Tuesday the busiest day. Even as Cotto and her colleagues are tearing through hundreds of returned DVDs, they take moments to read the angry notes (“This doesn’t play – defective!”) or occasional rave reviews (“Very funny movie, check it out!”) that customers scribble on the paper sleeves.
“Mr. Hetero” huckster’s church robbed
An interesting blog post about a lousy event.
Great City Council quotes #1: Rick Rushton
A reader writes: “I offer up this stellar quote from the pool meeting at City Hall.”
“The word betterment is a good word, because you have the word better in it.”
—City Councilor Rick Rushton
I’m pleased to say that the Catholic Peace Fellowship is launching a new web project, We Go on Record: An Online Community of Conscience.
The site is both a database of conscientious objector statements from people who were in the military, and a place for people who object to war to publish their own statements of conscience. Some civilians publish CO statements so that if there is ever a draft, they will be able to establish that they’ve opposed war for some time, which is supposed to make it easier for the military to decide that you are, in fact, a conscientious objector to war.
You can send suggestions and bug reports to me at pieandcoffee@gmail.com. More CO statements will be added in the next few days.
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Are you able to help the South Bend Catholic Worker with a donation?
They need the following items:
I think they could also use a copy of the Joy of Cooking.
You can bring donations to their drop-in center, “Our Lady of the Road,” 744 South Main Street in South Bend, Indiana, Friday and Saturday mornings. If you’d like to volunteer at Our Lady of the Road, please stop by and say hello.
Your generous donation will keep Al fully caffeinated.
Sister Madonna Buder finishes the Ironman
Cinnamon suggested this cool video of 76-year-old Sister Madonna Buder finishing the Ironman triathlon.
Waterloo (Iowa) Catholic Worker turns 25!
Congrats:
The Catholic Worker House, because it is not a non-profit and does not receive federal dollars, operates with less paperwork and more flexibility than many social service organizations. Also, the Waterloo operation, and others like it, do not receive or give tax write-offs, and pays property taxes. This practice, in [Dorothy] Day’s perspective, is a way to identify with the poor.
Any man, woman and child who comes looking for a temporary bed or a hot meal is welcomed, no questions asked, Quirk said. Though visitors, called guests by volunteers, must abide by house rules. Waterloo’s Catholic Worker House includes a home for about six men and a home for about five women and some children.
Snow Ghost podcast #4: Bon Scott vs. Brian Johnson
On this week’s podcast, Bruce and I are joined by Messrs. Paulukonis and Villani to discuss AC/DC, Metallica, and Bruce getting picked up by the police.
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