Comfort the Afflicted - Afflict the Comfortable!
Sat. 10.30am-1.30pm Catholic Worker Gathering, St. Catherine's Meath St.
The Catholic Worker movement began with the
distribution of the newspaper in New York City on May Day 1933. It surfaced in Dublin at May Day Reclaim the Streets in 2002. We are gathering to celebrate and reflect on the eve of May Day 2005.
The radical (anarcho-pacifist) Catholic Worker movement comprises of approx 120 communities in the United States, 6 in Canada, 3 in Mexico, 2 in England, 2 in New Zealand and one in Australia, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Dortmund.
History www.catholicworker.org
Five Catholic Workers carried out a nonviolent disarmament "ploughshares" action on a U.S. Navy war plane at Shannon Airport on Feb 3rd. 2003. They await a second trial at the Four Courts on Oct 24th
VENUE
Saturday April 30th.
St.Catherine's Church Residence
Meath St. (turn left off Thomas St. 50 metres along
from corner, next to church)
Libertys
*Come to whatever part of the event you can or wish
to!
10.30am - Gather for tea & coffee
11am - Agape Liturgy/ Music 'White Cholera'
12 noon - Video Footage from the Pit Stop Ploughshares
Trial
12.30 pm - Reflection on where we've come from, where we're going - the Catholic Worker experiment in
Ireland -community building, hospitality, nonviolent
resistance.
1.30pm-Depart for the march from Rememberance Garden
Email RSVP dublincatholicworker @yahoo.co.uk if possible (not essential)
More info or text RSVP 087 963 839