Dorothy Day, born on this day in 1897, was an anarchist activist who founded the Catholic Worker movement. "The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?"
The Catholic Worker movement, founded by Day and her partner Peter Maurin, started with the publication of the first issue of the Catholic Worker on May 1st, 1933.
The paper was priced at one cent, and published continuously since then. It was aimed at those suffering the most in the depths of the Great Depression, "those who think there is no hope for the future", and announced to them that "the Catholic Church has a social program...there are men of God who are working not only for their spiritual but for their material welfare." It accepted no advertising and did not pay its staff.
Like many newspapers of the day, including those for which Day had already been writing, the Catholic Worker was an unapologetic example of advocacy journalism. It provided coverage of strikes, explored working conditions, especially of women and black workers, and explicated papal teaching on social issues.
Its viewpoint was partisan and stories were designed to move its readers to take action locally, for example, by patronizing laundries recommended by the Laundry Workers' Union. Its advocacy of federal child labor laws put it at odds with the American Church hierarchy from its first issue.
Day's activism continued throughout the rest of her life, resulting in multiple arrests. In the summer of 1973, she joined César Chávez in his campaign for farm laborers in the fields of California and was arrested at the age of 75 for defying an injunction against picketing, spending ten days in jail.
"The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor."
- Dorothy Day
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I'm buying a Soviet motorcycle and I'm gonna sell my car to pay back the loan lmao.
A used one of these, without the sidecar (woulda been twice as expensive with, I'll add it later). I'll post it to /c/cars when I get it if it's gucci.
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I have not been doing so great the past 24 hours, family shit on top of bad personal feelings, but doing better now. Took the corgi out on the town tonight and that cheered me right the fuck up.
Nice out fit loser . 2001 called , Apparently some thing happened to the World trade centre
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it's kind of funny, but I've unironically been big into frozen peaches recently. I've been in my frozen fruit arc, and I've been favoring peaches this week.
Like, dead serious not even kidding. :freeze-peach:
When you’re ready to get into the harder stuff, I highly recommend frozen figs
About to go under anesthesia, wish me luck. Have to have a camera down my throat 💀
Edit: Never mind, they turned me around because I had to not vape for 3 days??? Which they never told me??? I checked the instructions 1000 times yesterday and rechecked it just now; it only says “don’t eat after midnight” and “don’t take iron supplements or aspirin”
Some ten year olds in my neighborhood park are pretending to run away from a school shooter for fun.
:sadness-abysmal:.
I don't get why it's so important to the nafo guys that ukraine must be older than russia, but it makes for great bait. Just claim ukraine was invented by lenin and leave without elaborating while dozens of cartoon dogs seethe in the replies. Seen this happen multiple times
I think it is them saying Ukraine is actually the successor to the Kievan Rus' or something
It's not just NAFO. Lots and lots of nationalists make up total fairy-tale histories to explain why their nation-state is definitely a real thing that has always existed.
To replace Russian gas, Europe is buying up fuel that used to go to developing countries.
But don't even think about buying gas from Russia to make up for it, or we'll coup your leaders and make your economies scream.
I love this site but when ever something political happens in America it's just unusable for a few days. I do not care about any of it sorry.
Me playing Russia in Vicky 3
:both-sides: Dude, what' all that stuff you're grabbing?
:newsflash-asshole: TOOLS! TOOLS!!! THIS IS WOOD, IRON AND LABOURERS, I HAVE TO HAVE MY TOOLS!
It could be that your pops can't afford it. Obviously can't be too targeted with advice from the other end of an internet comment, but if you are exporting too much / the cost of the good is too high domestically and your standard of living is too low they can't afford it.
It could also be bugged because I was having clothing issues last night as well.