CASA CRY, NEWSLETTER OF CASA MARIA C.W.
Catholic Worker
"My
humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
― Desmond Tutu
CASA
CRY
DECEMBER 2024
On Tuesday, Oct. 22, two Marquette faculty members affiliated with the United Campus Workers of Wisconsin (UCW-WI) approached the Office of the Provost to negotiate a process to recognize a union to represent full-time, non-tenure track faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. In advance of this communication, more than 65 percent of full-time, non-tenure track faculty in the college signed union authorization cards indicating their desire to stand together to collectively bargain their contracts with the university. Instead of agreeing to negotiate with the union, on Friday, Oct. 25, university leadership chose to invoke the university’s legal right for a religious exemption from oversight by any governmental agency that might ask them to recognize their workers’ right to unionize. This stands in stark contrast with the position taken by other Jesuit universities, which have decided to protect their workers’ right to unionize, even if they are not compelled to by government agencies. For comparison, on Monday, Oct. 28, Saint Louis University (SLU) agreed to an election to recognize a unit of graduate student workers on campus. Indeed, neither SLU, Fordham, Loyola Chicago, Georgetown, nor Santa Clara feel their religious freedom is threatened by collectively bargaining with their workers; all of these Jesuit institutions have been driven by their mission to recognize faculty unions. Marquette University may still follow the examples of these other Catholic, Jesuit universities and stipulate a free and fair election administered by the National Labor Relations Board or another third party.
We remain standing together asking in one voice for Marquette to live out its Catholic, Jesuit mission by recognizing our right to organize and collectively bargain. As the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said in 1986: “All the moral principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the Church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the Church should be exemplary, and therefore all church institutions must also fully recognize the rights of employees to organize and bargain collectively with the institution through whatever association or organization they freely choose.” In solidarity, United Campus Workers of Wisconsin (UCW-WI) !https://ucwwisconsin.org/ ----Lincoln Rice
“Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light a fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.” -- Dorothy Day
“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”-- Dorothy Day
DON’S JOKES
Now that I am getting older everything is starting to click. ….Knees, back, neck, etc I heard a doctor say, “.A patient cured is a customer lost”. I’m on my second angel. The first one quit and is now in therapy. What do you call it when a snowman has a temper tantrum? A meltdown. Why are elevator jokes so good? Because they work on so many levels. What do you call advice from a cow? Beef Tips. When is a door not a door? When it is ajar Why did Santa put a clock on the sleigh? He wanted to see time fly. Did you hear they arrested the devil? Yeah, they got him on possession. After the man who created the hokeypokey died, it took a while to get the body in the casket. They put his right foot in….. My dog used to chase people on bikes a lot. It got so bad that finally I had to take his bike away. Once, my father came home and found me in front of a roaring fire. That made my father very mad, as we didn’t have a fireplace. Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas. When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
INTERESTING FACTS
St. Martin of Tours said “I am a Christian, I am a soldier of Christ. It is not lawful for me to kill.”
Recently, Abu Ghraib detainees were awarded $42 million in the torture trial against U.S. defense contractors. For the first time, an American jury has found a U.S. company — CACI — liable for its work at the military prison. ---The Intercept
Every day in Gaza, on average:--115 people are killed - that's one out of every 55 people living in Gaza;--46 are children, 31 are women, 38 men, 266 people are injured - that's one out of every 23 people in Gaza.
In the past year, U.S. spending on Israel’s military operations and related U.S operations in the region total at least $22.76 billion and counting. ---Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs
Washington D.C. Catholic Worker https://tiny.one/DonatePalestinePartners or mail a check, made out to Cassandra Dixon or Palestine Partners, to Palestine Partners, PO Box 8414, Madison, WI 53708 Cassandra Dixon of Mary House C.W., Wisconsin Dells, WI.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, about 57% of the country’s entire agricultural workforce is undocumented. the immigrant workforce is a source of immense profit to employers. High levels of enforcement also ensure the profits of companies that manage detention and enforcement, who lobby for deportations as hard as Boeing lobbies for the military budget. Join Vigil in Support of Immigrants at the I.N.S, 310 E. Knap St., every Thursday at 9 a.m.
“We call barbarians people living on the other side of the border. We call civilized people living on this side of the border. We civilized, living on this side of the border, are not ashamed to arm ourselves to the teeth so as to protect ourselves against the barbarians living on the other side. And when the barbarians born on the other side of the border invade us we do not hesitate to kill them before we have tried to civilize them. So we civilized exterminate barbarians without civilizing them And we persist in calling ourselves civilized.” ___ Peter Maurin in Easy Essays
A shocking new report just revealed that the U.S. has provided a record-breaking $17.9 billion in military aid to Israel in the past year.---Our Revolution In 2022, for example, the U.S. provided Israel with $5.1 billion in military aid---Drop Site News
Factor by which the number of sanctions imposed by the United States exceeds that of any other country: 3 The people of Cuba suffer greatly from the ongoing embargo.
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. economic
embargo on Cuba for the 32nd consecutive year, with a vote of 187-2, only the U.S. and Israel opposing it. ----A.P. Nesws
Estimated amount stored on unused gift cards in the United States
: $27,000,000,000 ---Harper’s Index
NOTE
Sunday
December 1st-- hip hop artist David Lopez will be putting on a concert
at the Cactus Club 2469 South Wentworth in Milwaukee starting at 7:00 p.m.
Donated food and financial donations will go to Casa Maria & Kinship Food
Pantry Our current needs list: prayers, 2t pull-ups and size 4
diapers, baby wipes, cleaning supplies, milk (esp. shelf stable milk), laundry
detergent, dish soap, 39 gallon garbage bags, bleach, pasta sauce, pizzas,
paper towels
Thursday, Dec19 ------Anti-ROTC Vigil at Noon at the M.U. Library. No institution should be training people to do evil to those who do evil. Love them instead.
Dec. 25 --- Birthday of Christ. Thank him for his message on how to gain peace and good will to all. And thank Mary for delivering him to us. Christ was also a refugee.
Thursday, Dec.26----- Anti Gun Vigil at Noon at Dunham’s Sports, 2550 S. 108th St. Guns are the number one killer of our children and teens, and disproportionately harm people of color. ---John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Our current needs list can be found here: Get Involved
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NOTES FROM 21ST ST;
Today I was doing last minute outdoor yard preparations for the winter that is to come. I trimmed back some plants, put away outdoor furniture and rolled up the garden hose. I also raked and put down some soil and planted milkweed seeds. It was my gesture of hope for the future. The hope that Monarch butterflies will find a refuge in my yard. Many of us are dealing with a winter in our souls. I believe every deed we do with love toward a better future will melt our souls into a spring of hope. I will close with something I read recently: “You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.” Publilius Syrus. Peace, Roberta
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