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Dan Berrigan watches the Golden Calf of Wall Street hoisted through the street in an #Occupy Wall Street march. |
Catholic Workers from throughout the U.S. are participants in the #Occupy movements that are now dotting the nation in about 1500 places. From Gainsville to Worcester, wherever there is an #Occupation, there is likely a Catholic Worker there too. Communities involved so far include: Champaign-Urbana, Amos House, Nashville, Tennessee, Hartford, Duluth, Tacoma, four houses in Oklahoma City and several communities in Iowa.
Catholic Worker involvement ranges from helping supply food, showers, marches, protests, and engaging in non-violent resistance.
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Bill "Bix" Bichsel, left, at Occupy Tacoma. |
“The thing about Occupy Wall Street that bothers me most is that it didn’t start within the Church.” said Karen Spears Zacharias, an Alabama writer whose work is heavily influenced by the Catholic Worker Movement and Dorothy Day. “The poverty of the Great Depression compelled Dorothy Day to act upon her faith. Fighting against the unequal distribution of wealth is not a new idea. Day wrote extensively about it in the newspaper she edited, The Catholic Worker.”
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Paki Wieland and Mona Shaw (co-editor of Catholic Worker Journal) in Freedom Plaza, one of two occupations in Washington, DC. |
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| Four CW houses are in involved in Occupy OKC (Oklahoma City) |
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| Occupy Worcester |
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