Ammon Hennacy

Today, Fat Tuesday, I had invited many persons to a dinner of curry vegetables, Syrian Rice, Salada, curry/Cajun chicken and an assortment of other ethnic foods. I did not expect many to come since the dinner was to be followed by a brainstorming session on how to stop the teaching of war at Marquette University. But only three friends showed up, two of the regulars and one new person.

Besides enjoying an excellent dinner, if I, the cook, need to say so myself, we had an excellent session throwing out ideas for how we can effectively in nonviolent action communicate our message that teaching war at Marquette in not ethical or moral and causes death and destruction of human life.

One of our small group said we need to build up our numbers, something we have failed to do in the past. We talked about reasons for this but at the end we decided that we need to do what we had to do, despite how many join us. Ammon Hennacy, a Catholic Worker, called it the “One Man Revolution”. It is nice to be part of a large group but if something is the right thing to do we need to do it no matter how many stand or do not stand with us.

I believe we are all invited to do the right thing but few have the courage to choose to do it.

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