Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day

female, deceased (1980)
Roman Catholic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni, Christian, sexual revolution, industrial worker of the world, Anti-war activist…catholic church, Catholic Worker, CatholicWorkerMovement, Catholic
Dorothy Day was an American journalist turned social activist and devout member of the Catholic Church. She became known for her social justice...
Peter Maurin

Peter Maurin

male, deceased (1949)
marlborough, Roman Catholic, writer, nonviolence, American, activist…industrial worker of the world, Catholic, CatholicWorkerMovement
Peter Maurin was a Catholic activist who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Dorothy Day in 1933. Maurin was born into a poor farming...
Ammon Hennacy

Ammon Hennacy

male, deceased (1970)
Christian, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, industrial worker of the world, vegetarianism, tax resister, American anti-war activist…CatholicWorkerMovement
Ammon Hennacy was an American pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement and a Wobbly, and...
Utah Phillips

Utah Phillips

male, 74 years old
Republican, storyteller, activist, republican party, anarchist, From Cleveland…CatholicWorkerMovement, industrial worker of the world
Bruce "Utah" Phillips (b. May 15 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and self-described "Golden Voice of...

Ciaron O'Reilly

male, 49 years old
Joh Bjelke-Peterson, Christian anarchist, 25 year occupation of East Timor., CatholicWorkerMovement, Catholic Worker, Anti-war activist…Roman Catholic
Ciaron O'Reilly is long time Catholic Worker, nonviolent resister and Christian anarchist. Ciaron took part in the 1980s civil rights, social...
Michael Harrington

Michael Harrington

male, deceased (1989)
American anti-Vietnam War activist, From st. louis, missouri, Political writer, Democratic Socialist, Irish-American, socialist…CatholicWorkerMovement, The Catholic Worker
Edward Michael Harrington (February 24, 1928 - July 31, 1989) was an American democratic socialist, writer, and political activist.
Roger Allen Laporte

Roger Allen Laporte

male, deceased (1965)
American anti-Vietnam War activist, self-immolation, Self-immolations, vietnam war, The Pentagon, set himself on fire…CatholicWorkerMovement
Roger Allen LaPorte is best known as a protester of the Vietnam War who set himself on fire in front of the United Nations building in New York...
Karl Meyer

Karl Meyer

male, 72 years old
Pacifism, Pacifist, tax resister, American, CatholicWorkerMovement, tax resistance…Catholic Worker, worker
Karl Meyer (b. 1937) is an American Scientist pacifist, activist, Catholic worker and tax resister. Karl Meyer helped to further the study of...
Bill Kauffman

Bill Kauffman

male
anti-corporation, Anti-corporate activism, The American Conservative, CatholicWorkerMovement, The American Enterprise, culturally conservative…Catholic Worker
Bill Kauffman (born November 15, 1959) is an American political writer generally aligned with the paleoconservative movement. He was born in...

Thomas Lewis

male
Roman Catholic, Baltimore Four, Philip Berrigan, Catonsville Nine, Plowshares Movement, CatholicWorkerMovement
Thomas Lewis is an artist and peace activist. In the late 60s, he was involved in such "actions" as the Baltimore Four, who poured blood on draft...