Ms. Day started the Catholic Worker Movement Catching up more on the last month… While running in the American Solidarity Party Primary the past couple months, I went out to do some “Whistle-Stops” in Northwest, Ohio. Twice, while being interviewed … Continue reading →
More catching up on the past two months… I volunteered at an outreach to the homeless in Cleveland on Christmas night, during a trip back to the city to see relatives. This is run out of St. Malachi’s Church on … Continue reading →
Michael Zone Center, Cleveland (coach Joe) It’s “Juneteenth.” A holiday to commemorate the emancipation from slavery. Yet slavery persists, to this day. For instance, many Black youth are ‘slaves’ to transgenerational poverty loops in our inner cities. Our family moved … Continue reading →
Memphis on My Mind… Memphis is now 65% Black. Our family moved into a hardscrabble area of Cleveland that was, at least, 50% Black. We moved there to do outreach volunteer work with a group called the “Catholic Workers.” And … Continue reading →
With fall in full swing now, I’m trying to get in as many outside jobs as possible before winter — while continuing to hone my populist image (“Joe the Painter’). LOL. This was a shed I was painting in rural … Continue reading →
This week I wrote a piece for the newspaper on a Youth For Christ (YFC) outreach in a hardscrabble area of Lima, Ohio. This place, as you see here (pre-pandemic), is usually bustling with youth activity, especially with it being … Continue reading →
I covered a George Floyd Protest Rally this week in our village. Some 300 people came together for a peaceful, and poignant, protest. There were prayers, songs, testimonies about racism… But the one thing that was missing was the acknowledgement … Continue reading →
Catching up on the last month… I’ve been reading some of the book Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Last night I was reading a section that included that Kennedy wrote in 1967: “…we are two worlds.” … Continue reading →
Wednesday night my son Jonathan and I played basketball under the lights in Lima, Ohio. That didn’t just happen. Several months ago, Jonathan and I volunteered for an evening at a Youth for Christ outreach called Rally Point. Following the … Continue reading →
In between a number of house painting jobs recently (see: Joe the Painter), I’ve also been writing yet more freelance articles for our local newspapers on subjects that, interestingly enough, tie in with various parts of our platform. For instance, … Continue reading →