Catholic Workers Take NVDA in DC on Hiroshima Day

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Friday August 10, 2007 05:42

by Susan at Jonah House

Washington DC, USA

You Tube link on Bechtel action

Dear Friends,
We are just home from the August Faith and Resistance Retreat in DC.
It was an exciting retreat, with actions at the Pentagon, The
Department of Energy, Bechtel and the White House.

We heard talks from John Grathwohl, a former military chaplain,
Nadine Bloch and Jen Hallefus from Oil Change , and Liz McAlister, who
introduced the theme of the retreat: Global war and the assault on the
environment.
The first action, August 6, was at the Pentagon. We walked onto
the Pentagon reservation holding banners, and, after a prayer service,
Eda Uca, Mike Dorn, Sr. Margaret McKenna (from New Jerusalem in Philly),
Eve Tetaz and Bill Frankel-Streit planted three tomato plants on the
Pentagon grounds. After the plants were in the soil, the four were
arrested. Also arrested was Jay McGinley for leafleting.
The next day, we took an octopus to the DOE and Bechtel.

Thanks
to William Hughes, you can see the action on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOxC43Zj4Ws

On Wed, forty of us went to the Archdiocese for Military
Services. We had banners that said, “Jesus would never join the
military,” “Love your Enemies” and “You can’t serve God and Empire.”
We read our leaflet, talked with the Monsignor, and read sections from
the Gospels.
On Thursday we went to the White House to remember the people who
died at Nagasaki, and to remember Franz Jaegerstatter. Steve Miller,
Keeley Coleville and Jay McGinley were arrested.
Take a moment, and look on the Jonah House website for the full
story and pictures. www,jonahhouse.org