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AccordionBruce<a href="https://sfba.social/@nedraggett" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nedraggett</a> Places I’d like to visitThat’s where the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CatholicWorker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatholicWorker</a> archives are tooNot sure what the overlap is, but I know Wisconsin is higher on my tourism list than most places in the US <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Worker_Movement" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Worker_Movement</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday In Labor History May 1, 1933: The first issue of the Catholic Worker was published. Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, who were anarchist-Catholics, founded The Catholic Worker in New York City. The first run of the paper, they published 2,500 copies. By 1936, circulation was 150,000. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CatholicWorker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatholicWorker</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DorothyDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DorothyDay</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/catholicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#catholicism</a>

AccordionBruce<a href="https://mastodon.social/@ErickaSimone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ErickaSimone</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@zombiewarrior" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@zombiewarrior</a> When I lived at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CatholicWorker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatholicWorker</a> (non preachy Christian anarchists where the anarchism is vague and I was pretty much a curious atheist)I came to think that anarchism functioned best as a critique: “Oppression sucks”But you needed a programAnd “I won’t vote” wasn’t much of a programThe Worker fed people and housed people in their home. So that was somethingBut mostly again part of saying “This sucks”They tried not to be overwhelmed by hopelessness

AccordionBruce<a href="https://beige.party/@SnowshadowII" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SnowshadowII</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@ironcladlou" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ironcladlou</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SrRochardBunson</a> In the 70s at the New York <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CatholicWorker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatholicWorker</a> soup kitchen they were talking once about what they were going to do when all the elderly bums died?They’d been feeding people since the 1930s, but not many new folks were living on the streetsThen Reagan got elected, cut taxes and invented modern homelessnessWhich journalists had to explain and define for people — it was a new phenomenon“Homeless” Never forget: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reagan</a> invented that

Firestorm BooksWhether or not you made it to last week's reading group kick off, we hope you'll join us tomorrow to discuss the first section of Rebecca Solnit's "A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster." We'll be talking about the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 (pages 13-72) in the context of our own experiences with Hurricane Helene. This is also a cool section because it includes the origin story of the Catholic Worker Movement, a radical faith movement that inspired BeLoved Asheville!Copies of "A Paradise Built in Hell" are available at Firestorm with a discount, or at no cost for participants in financial distress. We'll also be continuing to provide childcare for kids five and up, so please let us know the names and ages of the young folks you're bringing!Full event details and schedule can be found at <a href="https://firestorm.coop/events/3290-beholden-to-each-other-a-disaster-reading-group.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://firestorm.coop/events/3290-beholden-to-each-other-a-disaster-reading-group.html</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HurricaneHelene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HurricaneHelene</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AparadiseBuiltInHell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AparadiseBuiltInHell</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisasterCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DisasterCapitalism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MutualAid</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FeministBookstore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FeministBookstore</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CatholicWorker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatholicWorker</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristianAnarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChristianAnarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirestormCoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirestormCoop</a> (- L)

No Kings JonYesterday I got to hang out with my 90 year old godmother for the first time in 3 years.Margaret is a remarkable woman who became radicalized in her late 40's, and moved out of the suburbs into the Catholic Worker house in DC when her youngest went off to college. She now lives in a retirement community - with a map of US nuclear facilities taped to the back of her front door. <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/CatholicWorker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatholicWorker</a>

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