Catholic Workers Blockade Northwood Headquarters (England) on "Feast of Innocents"

by Catholic Worker Thu Dec 28, 2006 18:21

....photos from northwood HQ ACTION.

Catholic Workers from Oxford, London, Dublin & Farm Gather

Scott Being Dragged from Norhtwood..

Blockading the Entrance to Northwood HQ

Being Dragged from the Entrance to Northwood HQ

...AND STAY PUT! (not likely)

by LHM - erh Fri Dec 29, 2006 03:24

for more pics see also:

http://www0.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358924.html

by DM Sat Dec 30, 2006 16:45

It's great to see the english Catholic workers going strong, they were great to have at the Ploughshares trials, hope to see you over here soon!

by Frank - Des Moines Catholic Worker Mon Jan 01, 2007 15:19

The 28th Annual Feast of the Holy Innocents Retreat and Witness at
Offutt AFB took place as planned. Eleven people participated in the
two and a half day retreat. The scriptures were studied, past
resistance efforts at Offutt reviewed, the new god awful mission of
STRATCom explored, prayers made, Eucharist celebrated, old and new
friendships fostered, community built and the spirit of Christmas
invoked.

By the time we got to Offutt's main entrance for the witness at noon
on Dec 28th we were 25 strong. This year as was
the case last year, the Offutt security people closed down the two
lane main entrance road and allowed us to take our procession up the
1/3 mile drive to the closed gates. This year, all security personnel
were hidden from sight. A number of security people were out of sight
in the guard house directly attached to the closed gate.

Once we reached the closed main gate we read our prepared statement
(see below for text) and sang a Christmas Carrol. Fr. Jim Murphy
concluded our witness with a passionate plea to any of the personnel
who were listening, to quit their military jobs and come join our
efforts as peace makers. Fr. Jim recalled a similar plea of Archbishop
Oscar Romero made to El Salvadorian military personnel back in 1980.

There were no line crossers this year.

As we returned to our cars to go home, many of us were struck by the
apparent lack of any visible contact with Offutt personnel at the
gate. There was one lone Omaha World Herald reporter.

Our efforts this year to proclaim the Christmas message at STRATCom
seem to be following more closely the Gospel of Luke's version of the
birth of Jesus. In Luke's story of Christmas, the baby Jesus is born
in the most marginal and humble of places, far away from any place of
importance or notice, in a barn on the outskirts of Bethlehem, an
insignificant village in occupied Palestine.

In Luke's Gospel, God sent his angels to deliver the proclamation of
his Son's birth to a bunch of shepherds. And it was to these shepherds
that the task of announcing Jesus' birth to the world is given. Given
who shepherds were and where they came from, their Christmas message
probably received no more a hearing from "the powers that be'' than
ours did at Offutt's gate this year.

by Jonah Mon Jan 01, 2007 15:32

A series of nonviolent anti-war actions were carried out by Jonh House, Catholic Workers & friends in Washington DC at the Dept. of Energy, White House and Pentagon over the Feast of Innocents. Access photos and reports on link below.....

http://www.jonahhouse.org/FRdec06/index.htm

by CW Tue Jan 02, 2007 16:26

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/80358