Jeff Dietrich Interview
http://KevinCraig.us/audio/interviews/JeffDietrich/
Introduction
- Biography by William D. Miller
- New York Catholic Worker Paper, The Catholic Worker
- Directory of CW Houses of Hospitality included LACW
Jeff Dietrich | Los Angeles Catholic Worker | Hennacy House
- Suggests interview with "real" Plowshares activists
- Jeff's journey to the Catholic Worker
- CSUF - suburban Orange Co.
- catholic
- going to be drafted - conscientious objector - evade draft
- travel in Europe
- St.Louis, MO: Peace Conference with "anarcho-pacifists"
- Berrigan
- Milwaukee 14
- Discipleship: action vs. "worship"
- in court to judge:
- i don't refuse to serve; not a slacker, not a coward
- I just refuse to serve your way
- Catholic Worker, New York | Dorothy Day
- socialist, anti-fascist, IWW, labor movement
- journalist - The Masses
- Converted to Catholicism
- Met Peter Maurin
- houses of hospitality
- farming communes
- publishing
LA Catholic Worker | Catholic Agitator
Violence | Jesus not "meek and mild"
How did CW transform from feeding poor to protesting war
- CW paper had great appeal in Great Depression: subscription 50,000
- people asking, "What do we do?"
- Spanish Civil War
- Dorothy had been part of anti-WWI movement
- CW demanded Jews be allowed in
What is "Plowshares" movement
"hammering" "breaking" - non-violent?
- minimal, even symbolic damage
- to instruments of mass violence and destruction
- which have no right to exist
- we have duty to "beat swords into plowshares"
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