SJCT will host a potluck dinner at SUUS for
The Atlantic Life Community Pilgrimage
Sign up soon to bring vegetarian chili,
salad, bread, and dessert.
The Atlantic Life Community is celebrating its 50th anniversary this summer. They are Catholic Worker communities, nonviolent anarchists, anti-war advocates,, tax resisters, and peace activists along the East Coast who come together a few times a year to resist, recharge and reconnect.
This Holy Week Pilgrimage will take them from New Haven to Groton CT walking along the shoreline, stopping to vigil in towns along the way.
We walk to draw attention to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which prohibits the development, testing, production, and stockpiling of nuclear weapons and to call on the United States to lead the work for nuclear abolition.
We walk because the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says it is 89 seconds to Nuclear Midnight and we need to do something!
We walk because the United States spends more than 50 cents of every dollar on the military, and that is an act of theft from our most vulnerable communities.
We walk because from Gaza to the Sudan, from the West Bank to Ukraine, military occupation and violence is killing civilians.
We walk because we need to remind ourselves of our power as Catholics, as Americans, as human beings to make the change.
We walk because it is Holy Week, and our Christ is once again being crucified.
We walk because our hearts are heavy, and we need to reconnect with the beauty, generosity and goodness that makes each of us human.