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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  • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    watching youtubes about guns i kept getting this 'why everyone needs an ar-15' recc, definite fash maybe Qanon guy, just as dumb as you'd expect

    god these people piss me off im not even an anti-small arms person in the -situation- of yankeeland but these fucks do flips to justify why they, Masculine Individuals who exist Outside Society need an assault rifle.

    community defense is such a gimme a chud could so easily appropriate that but the narrative is always Scary Bandits Breaking into my home giving me adequate preparation to grab my rifle and equipment so i can go splooge my masculine murder boner on some evil-doers on My Property.

    a personal protection firearm is a pistol. its been a pistol for 500 years. least required prep, closest distance to discharge. everyone fucking knows this but the chuds have been circle jerking for the better part of three decades on why cqb carbines are totally what they need instead. honestly what proportion of this charade is dressed-up ar-15 salesmen and kayfabe cover on "we want to get armed as best we can to visit violence on people we don't like in the near future"

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      a personal protection firearm is a pistol.

      Nah. pistols suck. Pistols injure people. Rifles kill people and shotguns really kill people. I'm just some asshole, but if you're only going to have one gun in the house and you think you're going to use it for home defense (which is ridiculously unlikely to happen, mind!) you should probably get a compact shotgun of some kind.

      NOTE: Home defense happens very, very rarely, but having a gun in the house does increase your chances of hurting yourself or someone else in your house. That's why the best home defense weapon is a sword.

      • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        pistols kill most people who die from guns. they're absolutely sufficient but people act like the fact they don't make people explode makes them not deadly enough. at the very least you're ruining someone's year if not their life with a solid hit, basically anywhere. but no that isn't good enough i need to KILL:frothingfash: they need to bleeeeed and DIE before an ambulance can arrive

        i do agree a real small shotgun is probably best, especially considering the limited range means anyone hurt by it was reasonably capable of hurting you. but people dont ususally take petit shotguns outside whereas pistols have that tradition, thus the umbrella of personal protection idk