Category: Podcasts

508 #47: Creative Laundry

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Nat Needle, Jeff Barnard, Brendan Melican, and Bruce Russell.

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Nat talks about the Creative Laundry art project that will appear and disappear in Elm Park on August 15. (In passing we mention Free Art Worcester.) It rained a lot this week; at least one building was hit by lightning. The city’s trees are under attack from beetles. Rosalie Tirella wrote about the late Richard Preston in this week’s InCity Times. The Armsby Abbey opened. Living Earth will be expanding its restaurant. The ACLU wants info from the Worcester police about the stats of kids arrested in schools. The Cosby Show Idea is happening at HBML this weekend (and probably beyond).

Creative Laundry

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508# 46: You will live another year

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Tina Zlody, Jacob Berendes, Jeff Barnard, Brendan Melican, and Bruce “Snow Ghost” Russell.

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Tina finished a triathlon; Jacob went to the George Street Challenge.

Start on the Street is coming up; so is a Cosby Show project at HBML.

Councilor Germain has been feuding with the police chief.

Mike had two bar experiences, one in which a guy got stabbed, the other in which a city councilor did not sing Johnny Cash.

Missoula Oblongata brought their play “Last Hurrah of the Clementines” to Worcester.

We talk about CVS blight and the giant who lives in the downtown AT&T building.

Jacob says the name of Webster Lake.

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Rosary trial: necessity denied

Our motion for a “necessity defense” in our upcoming federal trial for praying the rosary has apparently been denied.

Telegram & Gazette:

A federal magistrate judge has denied a motion for a “necessity defense” for five people in the Catholic Worker Movement charged with obstructing the U.S. District courthouse when they prayed there for an end to the war in Iraq.

The group had argued that it was necessary to violate the law to prevent a greater evil.

We haven’t received official notice of this yet; I’ll update this post when we do.

Update: “Religion Clause” has a blog post and what seems to be the PDF of the decision, filed a week ago. Meanwhile, nothing’s come in the mail yet.

Second update: Apparently the T&G reporter got word of this through an electronic court filings service they use. And apparently the court is not going to mail us a copy of this ruling.

Scott Schaeffer-Duffy and I explored some of the legal issues in a podcast this morning. You can download the mp3 or see other formats.

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If you’d like to support this effort, you can meet with the defendants today (July 29, 2008) at the weekly peace vigil in Worcester’s Lincoln Square, 3:30-4:30pm. We hope you can attend our trial, September 23, 2008 at the federal courthouse in Worcester.

508 #45: Art heist

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel includes Brendan Melican, Bruce Russell, and Kevin Ksen.

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The Worcester police want $4K before sending records about Officer Mark Rojas to the Telegram & Gazette. Also this week: “At least six city police officers are under investigation for fraudulently claiming overtime pay for time spent testifying in court cases.”

There was an art heist in Elm Park.

Some good things in Worcester: the American Antiquarian Society, the Latin Festival, the Worcester World Cup, the Dive Bar’s new patio, and Jeff Barnard’s recovery.

Worcester Magazine had a nice article on street vendors this week. We finish the show with some audio interviews with vendors.

Choice snippet of the proposed vendor regulations:

For purposes of this provision a threat shall include the assemblage of any number of people in the traveled portion of any public or private way within three hundred feet of the vendor, peddler or merchant.

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508 #44: Vendors

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican, Cha-Cha Connor, Kevin Ksen, and Bruce Russell.

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There is a surprising amount of activity around proposed restrictions on Worcester street vendors. The Catholic Worker national gathering was held in Worcester last week. Worcester is trying to get people to buy homes.

See also: Morris Day vs. a wild animal.

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Salve Regina from mass for the 75th anniversary of the Catholic Worker movement

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Catholic Worker National Gathering, July 12, 2008, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Sung by the congregation, backed by a great choir. The recorder was 2 feet from Fr. Carl Kabat, and you can hear him loud and clear.

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Father Bernie Gilgun’s homily at the mass for the 75th anniversary of the Catholic Worker movement

IMG_0002Catholic Worker National Gathering, July 12, 2008, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Father Bernie Gilgun is a long-time Catholic Worker. I would welcome a transcription of this homily.

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Catholic Worker history discussion at the 75th anniversary Catholic Worker gathering

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Catholic Worker National Gathering, July 11, 2008, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Introduction by Michael Boover of Anna Maria College. The panel for this discussion was moderated by historian David O’Brien of Holy Cross College. Panel includes Mel Piehl, author of Breaking Bread: The Catholic Worker and the Origins of Catholic Radicalism in America, and the Dean of Humanities and History at Valparaiso University; Nancy Roberts, history professor at New York University, Albany, and author of The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement, and American Catholic Pacifism; Rosalie Riegle, Author of Voices of the Catholic Worker, professor emerita of theology at the College of Saint Benedict; and Dan McKanan, author of The Catholic Worker After Dorothy Day: Practicing the Works of Mercy in a New Generation, and now at Harvard.

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