Rim Restored
As some of you know I have been (nonviolently) fighting recently on three battle fronts, restoring the rims at a County Park; urging the Catholic church to use the one million dollars resulting from closing and sale of Catholic Churches in North Central Milwaukee for corporal works of mercy for segregated, poor and marginalized in this area; preventing Marquette from teaching war and killing on campus. The most concrete and specific issue was restoring all four rimes at the County Park so young African American adults and others can play full court basketball.
Last Friday the last of the rims was put back in place. I waited till today to announce this victory. A young adult in the area had suggested we expose this segregation for what it is and I think this was the turning point.
Now that I am back home, rested from a few days of school and reflection, I am ready for the challenge of the other two fights.
My Aggressive Scapegoat defense on struggle with Marquette to stop teaching war suffered a little setback tonight when I found out key witnesses could not attend the trial. However, I think we can work around this and hopefully expose Marquette for its teaching of reflexive killing, killing without conscience at the upcoming rally and trial on July 15th.
The Catholic Church ignoring the poor with use of million dollars is another struggle. We used research, facts, moral persuasion and even a parable, Thy Kingdom Come…on Earth as it is in Heaven and the Catholic Archdiocese still stonewalls us. If I could only communicate the plight of the poor to the Pope, our Holy Father, we might be able to move the local Catholic Church. If we can get a rim resurrected maybe we can get the attention of the Pope.
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