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I like connecting events, people and issues in my life. In terms of people living in Milwaukee makes it easier. Milwaukee is one of those large cities that seems like a small town. If you talk to another person from Milwaukee long enough you can find a connection. This is not as true across racial lines because Milwaukee is the most segregated city in the USA, but nevertheless it makes for interesting conversation to see how you are connect with another person.
People with certain kinds of illnesses, like Schizophrenia, make multiple connections between all aspects of their life. This is a gift and a curse, because some of the connection they can make seem strange and are not understood by others.
I like connections and my web page, www.nonviolentcow.org, tries to bring the gap between gardening and nonviolence. Sometimes I can do this and sometimes I cannot.
The two social justice and peace issues I am focused on this year, Teach War No More at Marquette University and the Catholic Church listening to the Cry of the Poor are connected in the Catholic Worker movement. Catholic Workers, which I consider myself to be since 1967 when I met Dorothy Day in front of the house of hospitality in NYC, firmly believe in resistance to works of war and in practicing the works of mercy in their daily lives. Our movement to stop the teaching of war and killing, killing without conscience is something Catholic Workers have been known for over the years and still practice today. Acts of the Corporal Works of Mercy is something Catholic Workers practice in houses of hospitality, individually and collectively.
Since Marquette has banned me from Campus for our calling for an end to the military training program and the Archbishop and Catholic Church authorities have ignored us in our cry to use the 1.1 million dollars from closing Churches in the poorest and most segregated part of the city for beds, stoves and refrigerators for people I feel that I now have nothing to lose by an nonviolent act, perhaps of civil disobedience, to connect these two issues. So today I announced on the home page of my web site that I, and others that wish to participate, will march on April 30 from the office of the Archbishop, to the office of the President of Marquette University. We will deliver calling on these Catholic institutions to practice the Works of Mercy over the Works of War.
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