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Catholic Workers to Protest Nuclear Bomb Production in Kansas City, April 12-15

  the spring Midwest Catholic Worker Resistance gathering will be in KC this year coincidingwith the lead up to tax day and targeting nuclear weapons production going on there.  read our friend Brian's write up below for more! “THE ONLY SANE SOLUTION…” Catholic Workers to Protest Nuclear Bomb Production in Kansas City, April 12-15 “We still hold that nonviolent resistance is the only sane solution,” Dorothy Day wrote in 1940, in a time of war much like our own, minus the daily escalating threat of nuclear annihilation that we face today. “We have to continue to make our voice heard until we are finally silenced--and even then, in jail or concentration camp, to express ourselves.”  In that spirit, Catholic Workers and other activists in Kansas City will be hosting the annual Spring Midwest Catholic Worker Resistance Retreat there April 12-15. Each spring for more than 20 years, Catholic Workers and their fellow travelers have left their homes, houses of hospitality and farms to lend