Podcast appearances and mentions of martha hennessy

How does someone become an official saint?  Meet Dorothy Day — journalist, radical activist, mother and lay minister to the poor who died in 1980 — who is being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church. Shannon Henry Kleiber walks in her footsteps through New York City, where she lived and worked, looking for miracles, talking with people whose lives were changed by her, and wondering how and why saints matter today.We are grateful for additional music for this show from Tom Chapin, Si Kahn and the Chapin Sisters. Thanks also to the Dorothy Day Guild, and The Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Marquette University Archives, which houses Dorothy Day's papers and photos.Original Air Date: April 19, 2025Interviews In This Hour: In search of miracles, favors and graces — Inside the ‘agony and ecstasy' of Maryhouse — We are all ‘called to be saints'Guests: Robert Ellsberg, Martha Hennessy, Fr. James MartinNever want to miss an episode? Subscribe to the podcast.Want to hear more from us, including extended interviews and favorites from the archive? Subscribe to our newsletter.

In this enlightening episode, we delve into the unique perspectives of stay-at-home moms (SAHMs) and working moms. Our special guest, Sharon Macey, host of the Mom to More™ podcast, shares her journey from being a SAHM for 20 years to reinventing herself professionally. This conversation offers working moms a chance to understand the other side of the coin and see that no matter the path chosen, there's no missing out or falling behind. This episode is perfect for you if you wish to uncover the profound wisdom that moms—both working and stay-at-home—can impart to each other to enrich their motherhood experiences. Do you want to ask me or this week's guest a question? Send in your question today: https://www.instagram.com/melissallarena/ Key Points: Understanding Different Mom Experiences: Gain insights into the stay-at-home mom experience from Sharon Macey. Learn how SAHMs navigate daily challenges and find fulfillment, providing a broader perspective that can enhance your own parenting journey. No Right or Wrong Path: Discover how both SAHMs and working moms face unique but equally valid challenges and rewards. Sharon's story highlights that choosing either path is about finding what works best for you and your family, without fear of missing out or being left behind. Shared Wisdom for a Balanced Summer: Learn practical tips from Sharon on how to make the most of your summer with your kids. Whether you're a working mom or considering a shift, this conversation provides strategies for balancing enriching activities for your children with personal growth and career aspirations. Actionable Takeaways: Embrace a new perspective by understanding the experiences of stay-at-home moms. Find reassurance in knowing that whether you work or stay home, you're making the right choice for your family. Implement shared tips to create a summer that is fulfilling and productive for both you and your kids. Join us for this insightful conversation with Sharon Macey, and discover how understanding different mom experiences can enrich your own parenting journey and help you make the most of your mom summer. Listen now and gain a fresh perspective on motherhood! Official bio: Sharon Macey is a content creator, blogger, speaker and host of the Mom to MORE podcast. A real "mother of reinvention", Sharon created Mom To MORE™, a podcast and community for women rediscovering themselves beyond motherhood. Sharon enjoyed a successful career as an award-winning copywriter and marketer before proudly embracing the role of stay-at-home-mom. During the years of raising her 3 kids, she realized while doing all of the expected mom things, she had developed a wealth of skills that served as the foundation for her own personal reinvention.  Sharon knows that moms of any age can use their talents, wisdom and unique gifts to create their empowering and fulfilling next chapters in life. Sharon holds a BA in advertising from the University of Texas at Austin and a Digital Marketing Strategies certification from the Kellogg School of Management. She competes in Latin ballroom dance and lives the empty-nest life in Connecticut with her husband and comedic dog, Comet. In this episode, I shared a resource you can use today to initiate conversations with anyone! Grab it this week and let me help you take the first step to building a powerful network that can help you grow your business (and even connect with other moms too). 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Where do you want to be 9-weeks from now? There are two options you can feel excited, intentional, and prepared to hit the ground running in the fall ready to pitch, connect, or partner with absolutely anyone who can help your business skyrocket into next year or you can play smaller, stay stuck in the same day-to-day monotony of business hiding from the people and places where the better opportunities can be created? You are bold. You are the type of founder who will do anything for your clients! It's time to do this for yourself! Treat yourself the same you have committed to treat others. Go for option 1. Bold you! Believe in yourself as much as you believe in others! Imagine if you believed in yourself as much as you believed in your kids! You'd knock yourself out of every and any park! The fastest way to get to option 1 is by investing in Fertile Imagination to Networking Success today. Sign-up now for the 15-minute call for the details and summer start date--> https://www.melissallarena.com/sessions/ Let's talk here so that you won't miss out on all of the bonus exclusive to this round of five mom founders. If you have questions email me melissa [at] melissallarena.com TRANSCRIPT: What if stay at home moms and working moms got together and helped one another and imparted some really useful wisdom that could help us each be better moms? That is what this conversation is about. I have here quite the special guest, Sharon Macey. She's the host of the Mom to More™ podcast. She's the mother of reinvention.   Former stay at home mom for almost 20 years, Sharon intimately understands the journey of motherhood, its joys, challenges, and the inevitable question moms all ask themselves. Is this all there is? And what's next for me? These moments of introspection led Sharon to her own aha moment and inspired the creation of her podcast, a podcast and community dedicated to supporting women rediscovering themselves after motherhood.   In this episode, we'll Sharon and I talk about what is it that we should be doing and can be doing with our kids during these summer breaks. And so I thought that Sharon would have a wonderful perspective seeing that she had about 20 summers with her children as a stay at home mom. And I think asking a friend with that experience is absolutely invaluable.   Also discussed in this conversation was a chapter of my book, fertile imagination. So in my book, I share how as working moms, we might want to phase out our approach to business building. Or just the way that we tackle our goals. And so I wanted to get Sharon's perspective pertaining to her life as a stay at home mom for the last 20 years.   And I wanted to see kind of like the other side of things. I wanted to know if she had been building out her interests in phases as a stay at home mom. And so that was something that we talked about as well as this very unique and very cool concept, which is that She was plugged into the community of advertising as a stay at home mom, so although she may have not been, you know, working for an agency at the time, her mom friends in agencies and friends in general would still reach out to Sharon.   As she may have been, you know, driving a child from hockey practice to back home. And that continuation of building those relationships, even when you are not working, per se, or looking for a job, I thought is such a wonderful example to share on this episode. So truly enjoy the conversation. If this really adds value and helps you reimagine what this summer could look like, having spent some valuable time with your kids, but also still plugged into your interests, then share this conversation with your mom bestie in particular.   And I want to challenge you. If you're a working mom, share this with a stay at home mom. And if you're a stay at home mom, share it with a working mom. I promise that we have more in common than we could possibly imagine. So please share this episode. And now for the wonderful conversation with Sharon Macey.   Amazing. Sharon Macey, thank you so much for being on Unimaginable Wellness. How are you? I am great. My friend. How are you? I'm really excited about this. I'm really excited about you. I'm excited that you're in a library. Oh my gosh. Do you know internet problems today? So we're in a library with this heinous yellow background behind me.   So But you know what, Sharon, this is emblematic of making it all work, making what lemon sorbet out of lemons. Here's the best part. I love libraries. So you're actually in like my Haven, right? So your library, fun fact, when I was living in new Canaan, we were very library envious. of people in Westport, right?   And so you are in a really great library looking at what a river or something. So yes, yeah. Overlooking I'm not overlooking a river, but yes, this library is overlooking a river. Yeah. So shout out to libraries. You guys are saving graces, especially if the internet ever conks out. And, and also for those mom friendly rooms, right?   With all those beautiful children books and such. So Sharon, I am so excited to have you here and we can absolutely launch into the regularly scheduled conversation. So Sharon, let me just paint the picture here, right? So. A lot of us want to spend more time with our kids, especially when we're in school break during the summer.   But the, the challenge is if we have our own businesses, if we're working moms, is that at this point we already feel behind, like behind on life, behind on our to dos, on our dreams. And so this idea that, okay, kids are out and we want to spend time with them. It just feels Card, and it feels like something that  might take us away from building the skills necessary to like make progress on our business.   So I would love you to help us all better understand how time spent with kids. For example, maybe thinking about your years as a stay at home mom, 20 years or so, how did that better prepare you? For when it was your turn or time to launch your own platform or business, like help us rationalize, like, okay.   Time spent with my kid is going to help me for when I'm back at it in the fall.  100%. I love that question, Melissa. Thank you.  The beauty of having been a stay at home mom, at least for me, and I realize that is a privilege to be able to spend that time, is that I realized later that everything you do as a stay at home mom builds a skill set and Or superpowers, whatever you want to call it, that will help you manifest, create, be whatever it is you want to be in your future.   Or if you are trying to get this done while your kids are, maybe your kids have finally entered kindergarten or elementary school and you do have a little more time. In your day, you've got more daylight,  it will help you build those skills. And so every moment that you're with your kids, you're learning so many things and we blow these off, right?   You think about how you act in an emergency, the leadership roles, the, the infinite questions in your ability to multitask and be a communicator and a negotiator and we'll throw in Dr. Mom, cause we've all been there. You have these innate abilities to do so many things and all of those skills are going to inform you.   They will help you get to whatever your next chapter or what I like to call my podcast, your more is going to be. And so I, I, I sort of challenged moms to say, think about all the things that you do, write them down. I mean, think about all the parties you've done. You're an event planner. Think about nonprofits that you've raised money for.   You are developing a skill set that is rich and varied and marketable, and those will take you far. I have to share something with you. A lot of moms that I've partnered with, mom founders, have told me that following up after going to networking events tends to be hard,  awkward, and a lot of them really don't know how to do it. I completely agree, and I think, as I think about time with my child or my children, I also think about the fact, and what I'm hearing you say, Sharon, is that I could almost, like, reframe it, right? If, if I'm feeling that, That complexity of the decision, the fact that it is time that I'm not going to be working on my business, quote unquote.   So one reframe that I'm hearing is that maybe the summer season, maybe these breaks, quote unquote, are like opportunities for me to work on like my soft Skills, right? So soft skills as a leader is certainly something that if you're a business owner, like a solopreneur, like myself, like you tend to forget the fact that you too need like a development plan as well in terms of your leadership skills.   So maybe time with your child can be time spent focusing on some key soft skills, and maybe it's something you do together. A hundred percent. And this, I think this time with the kids, summer is fun. It's creative. It's imaginative. It is, it's sort of where you can try to give your brain a bit of a mental break because the kids are on break and listen, your kid may go to camp.   So you'll have a little more time there.  Just, I'd say really enjoy that time. And, and drill down on all of these life experiences and see what comes up from there because it's not wasted time at all. It's incredibly valuable time. Absolutely. And, and I mentioned that because I remember when I was coaching a client, she had spent one morning going to some sort of science museum with her son and her husband, and in the back of her mind, she was like, But I should be really working on building my business.   But then she got back to the whole point of like, but wait, like, why did I actually build my business? It was to have the flexibility to be with my child. And so I think all of it can be rationalized. If you need that rationalization, just so that this way you feel great and actually present when you are with your child.   So I love what you said there, Sharon. So let me, let me ask you something because here's the thing that's super cool. So when I've interviewed people, not everyone has like checked out my book, fertile imagination, but you have it in your hand. And so I think it's, it's amazing. So I want to just reference it and get your thoughts on this idea.   Yeah in the book In the book Thank you so much In the book sharon. I reference a working mom who I admire so so so much martha hennessey who's Like a rock star and she's like a grandmother at this stage, too And she told me before I became a mom that I would never regret the time I spent with my kids It was really hard to think about Think that through because I was not yet a mom, but now I like I get it, right?   Cause a lot of us, for example, especially if you're a working mom, you only have these like windows of time, right? Of mom exclusive time. So here's my question, Martha, I mentioned in my book, she worked on her professional dreams. In phases while being a mom, right? And so my question to you, because you were a stay at home mom for 20 years, like, did you, on the other side of this coin, explore your interests in phases during your stay at home mom time?   Ooh, interesting question, my friend. So  I didn't think that I did at the time, but in retrospect, I I absolutely did, because I realized everything I was doing with my kids, all of the information I was absorbing and the knowledge that I was learning and the skills that I was honing, all of those things helped me eventually get to where I am right now with mom to more with the podcast and the community for women rediscovering themselves beyond motherhood.   And what was interesting, Melissa was when I was a stay at home mom, it was a little more black and white then. Right. I've got a, got a couple of years on you. It was a little more black and white, and it was either you were working or you are not. And  I had some freelance clients. My background is advertising and marketing.   I'm a writer. So I did have some freelance clients for a while until I had too many kids and then they outnumbered me and I was overwhelmed,  but. What I, what I tried to do is keep my fingers in the things that I like to do. I, my friends know that I'm creative. I would have friends who were working, who would call me up and say, need a headline.   I need an idea. Talk to me about whatever. And so  during those years, as  I had in the back of my head, I knew that There was a lot of questioning inside of me going, well, is this all there is? And what do I want to do when my kids grow up, which definitely led me into my mom to more chapter. And then during the pandemic, I was able to go back to school, which really helped to launch a couple of things, which then ultimately led in into what I was doing.   So I. Definitely different phases, although I might not have been as aware of it at the moment when things were happening, but in retrospect, when you really look at that pool of experiences and knowledge and highs and lows and disasters and successes, everything sort of helped me to get to where I am right now.   It's so interesting how originally I'm gonna this is actually something I've never told anyone. So like, I remember when I was first pregnant, me and my husband, okay, this was before becoming parents. Well, I guess I was with my first born in me, but I remember. We got all analytical about what we wanted our firstborn to be.   We literally started writing down, like, we want them to know all these languages. We want them to be, pick a word, kind, ambitious, whatever. Like we were almost like scientifically writing out like the recipe that we wanted to then bake. And, and so it's interesting because obviously that was like, To shreds because reality, you become a mom, but what I'm hearing from you is that maybe we don't need to be so like, I don't know, methodological about how we want to approach our lives.   Maybe things will happen. Events will happen. Situations will present themselves that in hindsight, we can then connect the dots and make something out of them that. Helps us feel fulfilled, you know, and so again, we were not creating our child, but we're manifesting his personality. So this was, this was beyond manifesting.   We're like two MBAs. We got Excel on this whole thing. And, and honestly, I had no time for Excel that first year. But the whole idea is that there's, there might be something else at play that really just helps guide us in, in a logical way that we will only know after the fact, right? So 20 years later, it makes sense that your friends in the creative feels, we're still asking you for your insights and wisdom.   It makes sense that maybe now at this stage, Sharon, and I don't know if this is true. Maybe you also like reached out to them and ask them about your mom to more stage. Maybe there's, there's some sort of, right.  Exchange there. So how did that work? Like at this point, at this stage, I'm just curious, like, did you plug back into those former friends, former colleagues, people who knew you when?   Absolutely. And, and a lot of that, they've just been in my life. Throughout the continuum, right? They never left. And I feel blessed to know as many people as I do in as many different stages of life that they're in. And so knowing that I have people that I can connect Reach out to and connect with, or sometimes reconnect with, has been incredibly powerful.   And I've found moms from my podcast, from,  from knowing, from people that I've known for a long time and realizing things that they have done in their life. And I think also  you have to, like in your book, Melissa, you have to allow for those moments of creativity and those moments of imagination and those moments of, I'm just going to go with the flow and see where it takes me.   And. Oftentimes, when you have these unexpected moments that were unex, these unexpected moments, you learn so much about you, about  something that you love to do, about something that you think you might want to look into in the future. So I just say, Like what you said in the book, allow your imagination to be and be able to take chances.   And I, and I think that's also something that I'm, I'm actually really comfortable doing. I don't know why, but I'm cool with taking chances. I feel like I started the podcast before I was really ready, although I had done a lot of research and I was as ready as I was going to be at that moment. But was it perfect?   God, no, you just, sometimes you just jump in and you do something because you know that you have something that needs to get out and it's going to resonate and you just need to do it. So that's kind of sort of where I'm, I'm coming from about that. Yeah. And I love that. I love that. I love how there was this continuing this continuity, I guess you could say of relationships.   It's like, I noticed that in terms of circles. So like, you know, where I have lived and where I live now, like there's a lot of moms who might not be a purist. Stay at home mom because right now I would say the lines are blurry to your point Especially with the advent of hybrid work and just working from home It's like like I do everything at home But so does my husband which is really interesting and he's not a stay at home dad, right?   So I I love how you  Stayed connected to people that were still in the work of of commerce right at the time and how and I also love how they respect you so much for your talent and skills, even though maybe at that moment, you may have been literally like driving someone to hockey practice or something.   Right? Like, And yes, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Right. You know, for mom, some, sometimes some of your most creative ideas happen behind the wheel of your car. Yeah, that's, that's very true. Actually, Sarah Blakely, by the way, just today on Instagram did a reel on how she used to feel. Fake a commute so that she could come up with her best ideas while driving nowhere, like around the same sort of set of blocks in Georgia.   But that being said, it just supports what you just said, Sharon. Yeah. Driving, showering, all of these moments where you're not thinking about a campaign or whatever, where that is when you get the tagline, right? That's when you get that soundbite. So I love that. I'm super creative. It just  moments of when you're sort of like falling asleep or maybe you wake up in the middle of the night because at a certain age, yes, everybody's waking up in the middle of the night  and oftentimes I find my brain just starts going and ideas just start popping and I have to open up my phone so I could just jot myself a note so I don't forget it.   Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, that's actually when my imagination was in full gear, like when I would put my head to the pillow and when I became a mom, because I was not putting my head to the pillow very often, that's why I felt like there was this pause on my imagination. And that's why I wrote the book so that I could rediscover my imagination and, and help moms and readers do the same for them.   And, and so let me ask you this question, cause I think I think this is really going to be common in terms of a lot of the listeners here. And I think your perspective, Sharon, would be amazing. So, okay, we have this idea that we are missing out on the lives of our kids. And And I, I am, I wonder from your perspective, when you were a stay at home, mom, did you feel like you were missing out in the world of commerce?   Like, was that ever like an inner conflict for you? Like, Oh, I'm not in the glitz and glamour of that. Things I heard this from a mom. That's a stay at home mom who was in, in communications before. That's why I'm curious about your thoughts and how you either untangled that conflict or worked through that conflict.   Cause we have it on the other side. We feel like we're missing out on the lives of our kids working mom. So I'm just curious your thoughts. Yeah, it's really interesting. You mentioned that because I absolutely felt that I was missing out, but. At that moment in my life, I had my it was a joint decision with my husband and myself that I had decided to step back and focus on the kids because they were only young ones and also recognizing that I had the privilege of being a stay at home mom.   But I would advise. Moms who are home to stay connected. And it's so much easier now than when my kids were younger, right? Having come back from, you know, the mom 2. 0 summit, so many women are really engaged in a, in a part time way. They've got younger kids, they're content creators that didn't exist when, when my kids were younger.   And so I'd say. My advice would be stay connected to the things that you love, the things that resonate with you, anything in your form or career, stay in touch with the people that you worked with.  You can take an online class, you can meet up with other like minded moms, and I know that there are, are groups all over the country of women who, Our home who are gathering together and they're talking about how do they stay relevant?   How do they stay informed? How do they stay with their fingers sort of still in the pie of their former careers? So then when they have the opportunity to be able to go back to what they did or interestingly, maybe start something totally new that they had no idea that they were going to do, that they feel that there was still that connection.   I'd say for the moms who are working and they're feeling like they're missing out with their kids, that, that is, is maybe not PC. That's, that's obviously a choice that you have. Now, I will also say, That there are women who have to work and I respect the hell out of them for doing two really incredibly hard jobs at the same time, raising kids, having to make that decision to put them in daycare or have someone in the family look at them so you can go make a living.   And that is, that is an incredibly hard journey. And I applaud all those moms who do that. And. And so they're not missing out because it's really interesting. Melissa, from the kids perspective,  my kids would say to me, we can't imagine having a mom who wasn't at home. But I know other women who were working and their kids have said to them, we can't imagine having a mom who wasn't working.   And so kids will glean.  Information and and experiences from how they lived and that will inform I think who they're going to become. So I think both sides of the coin are valid and true and real and they happen every day. And I think we just really have to embrace where we are able to be at this moment in time  while we are embracing our kids and just trying to take every moment that we gain from them and grow from it and love it.   I would agree. And I think, as I think about some of the clients that I've had who, who technically have a choice, that's, that's the part that's kind of interesting. And everybody has to decide for themselves, like what it is that they want out of their one precious life. Right. But, but some of the, uh, Some of the individuals who do have a lot of choice and, and opt to be very ambitious in terms of their careers, even when their kids are only going to be five, one time or 10, one time there's the other side of it is that you poured in so many years, a lot of times before becoming a mom, right?   So there's so many people that I've gone to school. School with, for example, that before they became a mom, which a lot of people now become moms later in life, they poured in decades to go up the ladder and to accomplish whatever dream was on their heart. And so it's very, very valid that that dream doesn't just go and it doesn't get thrown in the toilet with our placentas.   Again, I wonder where my placenta is. It's all. And it's really interesting, Melissa. I was just speaking with a cousin, a cousin of mine, and it's actually my cousin's daughter, and she just had a baby last fall. She's got a really big time job. And I think the pandemic really changed a lot of things. She is able to work from home  two days a week.   And so she can be with her daughter. She can work, she can take time out and, and. And have that mommy time, which is so important, but she also has this like really big job at a really world renowned firm. And so I think moms today have so many more options, so many more options than what I had when my kids were younger.   And so I, I think that's really important. I think that's terrific. You can sort of do both, right? You can have the time with your kids. You can have time at work. Sometimes they're overlapping at home. And, and it's just a whole different world in that regard, whether who's going to be a home parent, working parent.   It's, it's, it's,  there's a lot of, you know, We may want to edit this out right here. Cause I just had a senior moment.  There are, there is much more optionality that exists today than exists before.  Absolutely. Sharon. I think that people definitely can  re imagine what. A day can look like where they are present with their child, and they're also super focused on their work during another slice of, of the day.   I, I do, I do know there's, it's such a complex thing. I think having been a coach, like I appreciate also a lot of the realities, which is just one thing. Like. I still do think even though we have the option to work from home, I still do think that people that are physically based in a headquarters area might get picked for a C suite job a little more readily and easily.   Or if you show up to the office, it might convey extra commitment. And I'm not saying that's right. I'm just saying that I understand. And I appreciate the reality you. But I also understand that anyone that's listening has the opportunity at this time to really  figure out for herself what she wants.   Like, what do you want out of this life experience? Some, some listeners may. May have always thought to themselves, like, I've always wanted to be a mom. Like, like this, this being the CEO of an organization, that's for the birds. I'm being so silly right now, but like not everyone wanted that. And so for some people, I think it's just a matter of seeing the fact that if your dream was.   To be a stay at home mom and you have the opportunity to do so that is as valid and worthy and honorable as being the CEO of a billion dollar organization or whatever. And  yeah, I mean, you're representing the next generation of humans and I think the world is definitely more amenable to the whole work from home concept and we'll, we can thank the pandemic for that really.   And. There are, I think you can have more of it both ways than we could in the past. And, and the other thing that's really interesting, Melissa is what I've learned from some of the women that I've had the privilege of interviewing for my podcast is that I find that women who have spent a period of time home with their kids, they, they have become.   Far more entrepreneurial than they would have ever imagined. And so if you had said to many of the moms that I've spoken with, if someone had told you five years ago that you're gonna be doing what you're doing at this moment, they would have said, no way,  would have said, that's not me. I'm never gonna be doing that.   And so I think that just, The experience that you gain as a mom, the experience that you gained from working first and then being a mom and taking all those things that you went sort of putting it in the washer and the dryer and saying, okay, how's it going to come out on the other end? There's women have really this extraordinary entrepreneurial spirit and creativity and imagination, which leads them places they never thought they'd go.   And, and that, I mean, that's what happened to me. And I think that is just beautiful because life. Is you never know what's going to happen in life. You never know what's going to happen tomorrow. So to be able to take that creativity and move it forward, I think is a real gift and a blessing to, to have that opportunity.   Absolutely. Sharon, thank you for this. I think anyone listening is going to want to keep up with you. Keep up with Sharon. So like, where can we, yeah. So where can people find you hear more for about being a mom and, and just. Living in that moreness, like, how can we be part of your world? I love that. Living in my moreness.   Thank you for that. You can find me, well, my website is MOM2MORE, so M O M T O M O R E dot com, and on there, You'll have links to the podcast. The podcast is mom to more. It is on Apple, Spotify, YouTube for the video cast, really, wherever you do your podcast, you can find me. And on Instagram, I am at mom to more also on Facebook, also on LinkedIn.   I'm at Sharon Macey and talking about all things just from a slightly different perspective on LinkedIn that are relevant to, to moms. So I think also what's interesting for moms is.  Using your creative flow and, and, and having that idea exchange continuing on in your life, whether it's with friends who are moms, friends who are working, but that that whole sort of your creative flow, your essence, exchanging of ideas, building bridges, and, and it's something that I think is, is  helpful in helping you just sort of try to figure out what your next chapter is going to be.   Absolutely. Thank you so much, Sharon. Have an awesome one. Thank you, Melissa. Thanks. This has been great fun. What a wonderful conversation with Sharon. Here are the three things that I am going to reflect on myself and you might want to consider as well. So that this way, this summer season is A present one, and it feels completely nourishing, whether you are a stay at home mom or you're a working mom.   Point number one, there is beauty in being a stay at home mom. There are skills that you will learn that you can absolutely use now and later. And so just appreciating the beauty that there is, is my personal to do. I mean, there are moments when I am definitely very focused on my three boys, especially the summer season.   When I might lose sight of the fact that, you know what, we're out here having frozen yogurt together. How often is this going to happen? I don't know the answer to that. And so appreciating the moment and being in the beauty is absolutely something that I will take to heart. The second point is phases.   So in my book, fertile imagination, Martha Hennessy is someone who I feature. She's outstanding, had various positions in the government, and she is actually someone that I admire in terms of phasing out her professional ambitions. Sharon mentioned how moms stay at home. Moms can do the same thing. You can do the same thing.   If you are on a career pause, you can absolutely Think about what is interesting to you and start exploring this in a very like phase by phase basis. So if your children are, you know, just starting school, you could absolutely approach your love of dance. If your children are now in middle school, you can absolutely approach your love of song, whatever it is that's on your heart.   You can absolutely Think about how to experience that interest and Definitely check out my book because there's some ideas there pertaining to how you might want to Reimagine how you actually explore an interest so check out fertile imagination Third point. So this relationship between stay at home moms and working moms, I want more stay at home mom friends.   I want more working mom friends. I want us to get together and talk about the reality of our life experiences. There's so much more that we can learn from each other. than there is in terms of judging each other or even like judging ourselves. You know, I know for me, there have been moments when I've been like, okay, wait, was I supposed to be a stay at home mom?   Or was I supposed to be a, you know, working girl out in corporate America? Like there's all these thoughts that we often share, but we do not  to one another about. So we share it in terms of we're thinking it. But we're not expressing it. So what if we actually got together over a cup of coffee and we actually had these conversations?   So definitely thank you so much for listening to the conversation and until n

In this episode Martha Hennessy, one of Dorothy Day's granddaughters, joins us. She shares some of what it was like to be the granddaughter of Dorothy as well as some of her own journey in living out Catholic Worker values. 

On today's show, Martha Hennessy discusses war, peace & activism.    GUEST OVERVIEW: Martha Hennessy, age 68, is a retired occupational therapist, grandmother of 9, and seventh grandchild of Dorothy Day. She volunteers at Maryhouse Catholic Worker in New York City and works on the family farm in Vermont, where she raises self-sufficient crops with her husband. Martha has traveled to Russia, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Korea, and Afghanistan to educate herself on the effects of United States foreign policy and war making on countries and families around the globe. She has been arrested and served prison time for resistance to torture used in Iraq and Guantanamo, the use of weaponized drones for long distance killing, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and the production and use of nuclear power and weapons. She speaks on the issues of war and poverty, the need for prison and nuclear weapons abolition, and the practice of the works of mercy and Catholic Social Teaching.

Late November, 2023 -- John C. Wester -- Archbishop of Sante Fe -- spoke at the Church of Our Savior at E. 38th Street and Park Avenue. About 200 were gathered to honor the 43rd anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day – and – to consider the abolition of nuclear weapons. At the United Nations that week the countries that signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons were meeting. The United States was not one of them.The day after Archbishop Wester spoke – I met with two people who have dedicated their lives to peace in our world -- Brian Terrell and granddaughter of Dorothy Day – Martha Hennessy. Both had been on BCR – Martha in connection with her KingsbayPlowshares 7 protest at the Trident Nuclear Submarine Base in Georgia for which she was incarcerated in a Federal Prison for over a year. And, I first met Brian Terrell in covering the Witness Against Torture protests in Washington D.C. of the continued U.S. detention of dozens of Muslim men in Guantanamo. And I have talked to Brian many times since about his work to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. When he is not protesting and getting arrested, Brian runs a goat farm in Malloy, Iowa.Alan Winson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Early in the summer of 2022, my Bar Crawl Radio host – Rebecca McKean -- and I travelled with our grandson -- Jackson Castro -- to the family farm of Martha Hennessy – granddaughter of the founder of the Catholic Worker – Dorothy Day. While there, Martha told me of the work of a Catholic priest – Father Philip Gbao -- and suggested we produce a BCR program on his work with African students. Listen to that conversation with Father Philip in BCR #175. For this BCR program, we spoke with two of Father Philip's students about their professional goals and dreams to raise awareness of the power of Ugandan women in a culture which undervalues their worth. We spoke with Nambogwe Claire who is studying to be a community organizer and Birungi Martha who is working to be an automobile engineer. Both see themselves as examples of a new and different choice for Ugandan women outside of marriage, domestic work, and child rearing.Alan Winson -- barcrawlradio@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we interview two members of the Certain Days Collective.  Josh Davidson has been an activist for nearly two decades, focusing on prisoner support and the abolition of the carceral state. He is involved in numerous social justice projects, including the Certain Days collective and the Children's Art Project with political prisoner Oso Blanco. Josh is currently editing a book detailing the struggles of current and former political prisoners, and also works in communications with the Zinn Education Project. Daniel McGowan is a member of the Certain Days collective, and former political prisoner from Queens, NY. He works with NYC Books Through Bars, the Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) and supporting political prisoner Eric King.  The topic of today's discussion is the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar which is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal, Hamilton, New York, and Baltimore, and political prisoner Xinachtli (formerly known as Alvaro Luna Hernandez).  All of the outside collective members are involved in day-to-day organizing work other than the calendar, on issues ranging from refugee and immigrant solidarity to community media to prisoner justice. They work from an anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, feminist, queer- and trans liberationist position. In this episode talk about welcoming founding members Herman Bell and Robert Seth Hayes (Rest in Power) home from prison in 2018, and founding member David Gilbert home from prison just a few months ago at the end of 2021.  Daniel and Josh talk about the nuts and bolts of putting the calendar together, working with political prisoners on the project, and supporting prisoners against state repression. Along the way they both talk about tensions they feel in political prisoner support in the present moment. Both embracing prison abolition, understanding the inherently political nature of all imprisonment, and holding firm on the critical importance of movement defense to the creation of a better future. Daniel also shares many insights from his own time as a political prisoner on the vicious and arbitrary nature of carceral power and the role that political prisoners try to play teaching and sharing radical knowledge but also seeking to legally combat the most repressive facets of the prison system both inside and out. Josh and Daniel reference a ton of great projects and ways people can get involved, we will include all of them in the show notes so make sure to check them all out and get involved. One in particular we want to draw folks attention to uprisingsupport.org which was created to support people facing political repression for their involvement in the uprisings in response to the executions of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others in 2020. And of course make sure you pick up a copy of the Certain Days calendar if you haven't yet, they're now on sale for $10 at burningbooks.com and the other outlets listed in this episode and in the show notes. Finally, a reminder that if you appreciate the work that we do, we also need support. Become a patron of the show for as little as one dollar a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism  Other links and projects discussed in the episode: 2022 Artists- Carrot, Comrade Z, Jesus Barraza, Leila Abdelrazaq, Oso Blanco, Peter Railand, Roger Peet, Wendy Elisheva Somerson, Windigo Army, Virginia Lee, Xinachtli and Xue. 2022 Articles- Alanna Kibbe, Cory Charles Cardinal, David Gilbert, Daniel McGowan, Eric King, Hanif Bey, J.“g.”J., Martha Hennessy, Montclair Mutual Aid, Mwalimu Shakur, Sean Adams, Shukri Abu-Baker, Tauno Biltsted. PPs- editors are/were David Gilbert and Xinatchli Prisoners- Comrade Z (Julio Zuniga)- Texas,  Fed: Eric King, Hanif Bey, Oso Blanco, Shukri Abu Baker, Martha Hennessy. Sean Adams (released from Texas state),  Mwalimu Shakur (CA)   PP News Current campaigns- Dr. Mutulu Shakur (clemency, parole, compassionate release) Sundiata Acoli  Political Prisoners Near Release- Doug Wright  Josh Williams (12.22)   New(er) Political Prisoners - Jessica Reznicek Dan Baker Daniel Hale Floyd Uprising defendants (Uprisingsupport.org)   More orgs: Books Through Bars NYC Anarchist Black Cross Federation  Support Eric King (March 14th trial date) Daniel's consulting  Proceeds 2021 · RAPP (Release Aging People in Prison)  · Barton Prisoner Solidarity- .  · Tucson Anti-Repression Crew  · Prison Health News  · Austin ABC  · Solidarity Across Borders  · Buffalo Books Through Bars  · Mongoose Distro-  HOW TO ORDER -  US orders Burning Books  AK Press  Stores that sell the calendar Canada Kersplebedeb/Leftwingbooks  Canada bulk orders (10+)  UK order:Active Distribution  Prisoner orders- only $8 and you can buy it from Certain Days directly, and they will send the calendar to them. Deaths in or after custody- 2021 Chip Fitzgerald- 3.29.2021 death in custody (RIP) Russell Marroon Shoatz- 10.25.2021 Releases 2021: Michael Markus (Rattler)- Father Steve Kelly- Jaan Laaman- Martha Hennessy- Joshua Stafford- Carmen Trotta- Clare Grady-  Patrick O' Neill    Mark Colville- 9.11.2021 David Gilbert- 11.4.21    

Martha Hennessy is an American peace activist and member of the Catholic Worker movement. She is the granddaughter of Servant of God, Dorothy Day. The books/podcasts/organizations we mentioned on the show: • Catholic Worker Movement: o https://www.catholicworker.org/ • Kings Bay Plowshares 7: o https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/about/bios/martha-hennesy/ Support this podcast! https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E356519&i d=2

On this show we speak over the phone with Martha Hennessy granddaughter of Dorothy Day and Activist again nuclear weapons. Martha is out of prison on a very restricted confinement in a "halfway house” without internet connect and perhaps for another month or two. She took part of a plowshares action where seven activists entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary's, Georgia. The world's biggest naval submarine base, home to Trident nuclear powered submarines, the Atlantic Fleet's Ballistic and Guided Missile Submarines.

Rebecca and Alan talk with two Catholic Workers who have been in prison for protesting U.S. Navy submarines armed with world-ending numbers of nuclear missiles. We first talked with Carmen Trotta and Martha Hennessy on the porch of Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar in Manhattan in June 2019 – a bit over two years ago. At the time, Martha and Carmen and other members of the anti-war Plowshares movement were under house arrest for trespassing onto the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia, the previous year. They both wore ankle bracelets. Since then -- they were found guilty and have spent many months in Federal Prisons – Martha in Danbury, Connecticut and Carmen in Otisville, NY. Recently they were released with some very serious restrictions – which require that we speak with them separately – co-conspirators cannot communicate.Contact Rebecca and Alan at barcrawlradio@gmail.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Martha Hennessy is a grandmother of 8, a retired occupational therapist, and a federal prisoner. The 65-year old resident of Weathersfield, Vt. is in jail, along with six other pacifists, for breaking into a Georgia submarine base in 2018, spilling blood and spray-painting anti-war slogans to protest against the threat of nuclear weapons. The group is known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. The name refers to the prophet Isaiah who said that swords shall be beaten into plowshares. “I have no criminal intent; I want to help prevent another nuclear holocaust,” Hennessy said in her statement. Hennessy is the granddaughter of Dorothy Day, the legendary co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, which is committed to nonviolence and working for the poor. Pope Francis has cited Day as a “great American” and the Vatican has given her the title “Servant of God,” the first step towards sainthood. I asked Hennessy if she felt a responsibility, or even a burden, being Day's granddaughter. "Yes, sure. I spent 25 years not engaging at all," she conceded. But in addition to her peace activism, she continues to travel to New York City to work with the poor at Catholic Worker Maryhouse, Day's former residence. "There's this being hounded by God, having seeds planted in childhood." Hennessy is completing a 10 month jail sentence. She is currently at a facility in Manchester, NH, run by the federal Bureau of Prisons. She said that by speaking to the media for this interview, she accepted the risk that her sentence might be extended. Our conversation took place as she did her daily permitted walk.

Prison Bars Won't Stifle These Hearts This week, we're presenting three segments, all related in some way to prison. We hear an essay by an anarchist prisoner in Chile about a prison massacre on it's 10th anniversary, the voice of David Easley reporting from within a covid outbreak in an Ohio prison, and the voice of someone who's protest against nuclear weapons was leading her to incarceration. And Sean Swain. If you want to cast a vote for one of his nicknames, you can send an email to us at TheFinalStrawRadio(at ) riseup( dot) net, with 'Nickname' in the subject header until January 10th. [00:05:05]   David Easley on Outbreak at Toledo CI [00:11:03] First up, Comrade David Easley at Toledo Correctional Institution in Ohio talks about the covid-19 outbreak there, which he is still recovering from, that has knocked out one in five guards and forced the state to bring in National Guard to act as screws at the prison. The administration hasn't been proactively testing prisoners and so doesn't have data on infections besides symptomatic cases. When prisoners have tested positive, the only treatments they get are non-asprin Tylenol and cough drops, unless their health degrades to the point of getting onto a ventilator. David also talks about his inside/outside abolitionist study group he's been working with over instagram. Comrade Easley is seeking outside supporters to help run the Abolition Study Group instagram and also his personal social media so he can report to the outside world on the conditions in Toledo CI. He is also seeking lawyers in Ohio that can help sue the ODRC on behalf of prisoners for the negligence and harm that has led to so much sickness and death, inside and outside of the barbed wire. You can reach him via mail at: David Easley A306400 Toledo Correctional Institution 2001 East Central Avenue Toledo, OH 43608 and you can email him by creating an account on jpay.com and reaching out to him by his facility and number, David Easley A306400 at Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections.   Martha Hennessey of Kings Bay Plowshares 7 [00:30:46] Next up, Tali Moon from the occupied land in the PNW of the so-called US shares with us a conversation of Martha Hennessey of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, 7 white, Catholic anti-militarism activists who just went to prison for trespassing and symbolic damage to Trident nuclear missiles at a military base in Georgia. Hennessey, aged 62, is an anarchist and the grandaughter of the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, Dorothy Day. You can find out more about the Martha and others from her case at KingsBayPlowshares7.Org. You can write to Martha at: Martha Hennessy #22560-021 FCI Danbury Rt. 37 Danbury, CT 06811   Mónica Caballero on San Miguel Prison Massacre [00:56:11] Finally, you'll hear a segment from the December episode of Bad News: Angry Voices from Around The World from the A-Radio Network, magnificently produced this month by Crna Luknja in Ljublana, Slovenia. The Anarchist Assembly of Valparaiso (so-called Chile) presents a text about the 10 year anniversary of the massacre of 81 prisoners at the San Miguel Prison in Santiago de Chile written by anarchist prisoner Mónica Caballero. This was but a small portion of the audio in this months' episode.   Announcements   Land Project in Davao, Philippines Comrades from Feral Crust collective in the province of Davao in the Philippines (aka Maharlika) are requesting monetary support to purchase a minicab or small truck to help transport people and materials to their land project in the forests of Marilog in Davao where they are working on implementing ideas and practices related to permaculture, rewilding and nature restoration/conservation. The project has a fedbook page and you can hear an interview from July of 2015 that we conducted with folks from FC.   Surgeries for Activist Returning from Syria There is also a fundraiser for surgeries for Autumn, a transgender comrade from the US who volunteered in Syria, and suffered injuries during the civil war while doing solidarity work there. They are trying to raise $10k.

Hello Capital Region! This is the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, broadcasting from the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY. Today, we start off with the Albany Clean Air Coalition discussing Thursday’s night hearing on weakening the Coeyman’s Clean Air Law. Then,we talk to Martha Hennessy about her upcoming prison sentence for protesting nuclear weapons as part of the Kings Bay Plowshare 7. After that, HMM’s Corinne Carey discuss Troy’s proposed “Pay as You Throw” waste program with City Councilmember Anasha Cummings, ahead of Thursday’s public hearing After that,Catherine Rafferty speaks to Tisha Graham and Esther Patterson about BirthNet, a Capital Region birth justice organization. Finally, we hear from a school principal in Arbor Hill about the challenges of teaching remotely during COVID. But first, headline news.

The Intercept’s Senior Correspondent Naomi Klein argues why Democrats should forcefully defend the integrity of votes and condemn coup-plotting for what it is, and stop from blowing a mandate they’ve won Associate Producer Elise Swain follows the sentencing hearings for peace activists, known as Kings Bay Plowshares 7, who face federal prison for nonviolent protest. Associate Producer Elise Swain follows the sentencing hearings for three of the Kings Bay Plowshares Seven peace activists. Despite a lethal pandemic ravaging prison populations, Carmen Trotta and Martha Hennessy are among those due to report to prison within the next few months for their nonviolent protest against nuclear weapons. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Martha Hennessy of Vermont, the granddaughter of Dorothy Dau (Catholic Worker) is a member of the Kings Bay Plowshare 7, who were arrested for protesting nuclear weapons at a base in Georgia. She describes the reasons for the protest and the need to abolish such weapon. She will be sentenced this October. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.

Today, we highlight grassroots movements to disarm and divest from the U.S. military industrial complex amid the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, over 90,000 people are counted in the official death count in the United States. Experts say the real number is much higher due to the numbers of people who have died at home from the virus. The U.S. has close to 1.5 million cases. Black, Latino, Indigenous and impoverished communities have been hardest hit by COVID-19. Meanwhile, as death rates continue to rise in the United States from COVID-19, not only is Donald Trump busy trying to re-open the country and play down the death count, but he is continuing to implement his conservative agenda in the United States, which years ago would have been considered fringe. This includes rolling back environmental protections and civil and human rights. The administration is ramping up aggressive action against other countries. He continues to promote action against China, spreading the unproven theory that the virus began in a lab in Wuhan, China. The Trump administration is also continuing to support a change in government in Venezuela, attempting to overthrow that countrys democratically-elected government. Also, he continues to ramp up hostilities against Iran after scuttling the nuclear power deal. What price are people in the U.S. and around the world paying for the massive military budget, the largest in the world? The Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons has pointed out that the U.S. spent $35.1 billion on nuclear weapons in 2019. This could have provided: 300,000 intensive-care beds, 35,000 ventilators, and the salaries for 150,000 nurses and 75,000 doctors. If only a small portion of conventional weapons spending were redirected, many more supplies could be available for first responders, essential workers and impoverished people across the U.S. Today, you will hear audio from a recent webinar entitled, Disarm & Divest During COVID-19. The webinar was hosted by CODEPINK, a women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism. It focused on the continued build-up of militarism and the destitute condition of our world before and during the pandemic. It also shed light on civil resistance disarmament actions, such as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, who are facing sentencing for their nonviolent symbolic disarmament action at the largest nuclear sub-base in the world. Kings Bay Naval Station houses one-quarter of the U.S. deployed nuclear weapons. The panelists demand that instead of spending money on war, the U.S. should direct funds towards health care for all, particularly during COVID-19 and all future pandemics. Speakers include Dr. Cornel West, Jeremy Scahill, Medea Benjamin, The Kings Bay Plowshares 7, Martha Hennessy, Steve Kelly, Carmen Trotta, Clare Grady, Elizabeth McAlister, Mark Colville and Patrick ONeill.

Today, we highlight grassroots movements to disarm and divest from the U.S. military industrial complex amid the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, over 90,000 people are counted in the official death count in the United States. Experts say the real number is much higher due to the numbers of people who have died at home from the virus. The U.S. has close to 1.5 million cases. Black, Latino, Indigenous and impoverished communities have been hardest hit by COVID-19. Meanwhile, as death rates continue to rise in the United States from COVID-19, not only is Donald Trump busy trying to re-open the country and play down the death count, but he is continuing to implement his conservative agenda in the United States, which years ago would have been considered fringe. This includes rolling back environmental protections and civil and human rights. The administration is ramping up aggressive action against other countries. He continues to promote action against China, spreading the unproven theory that the virus began in a lab in Wuhan, China. The Trump administration is also continuing to support a change in government in Venezuela, attempting to overthrow that countrys democratically-elected government. Also, he continues to ramp up hostilities against Iran after scuttling the nuclear power deal. What price are people in the U.S. and around the world paying for the massive military budget, the largest in the world? The Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons has pointed out that the U.S. spent $35.1 billion on nuclear weapons in 2019. This could have provided: 300,000 intensive-care beds, 35,000 ventilators, and the salaries for 150,000 nurses and 75,000 doctors. If only a small portion of conventional weapons spending were redirected, many more supplies could be available for first responders, essential workers and impoverished people across the U.S. Today, you will hear audio from a recent webinar entitled, Disarm & Divest During COVID-19. The webinar was hosted by CODEPINK, a women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism. It focused on the continued build-up of militarism and the destitute condition of our world before and during the pandemic. It also shed light on civil resistance disarmament actions, such as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, who are facing sentencing for their nonviolent symbolic disarmament action at the largest nuclear sub-base in the world. Kings Bay Naval Station houses one-quarter of the U.S. deployed nuclear weapons. The panelists demand that instead of spending money on war, the U.S. should direct funds towards health care for all, particularly during COVID-19 and all future pandemics. Speakers include Dr. Cornel West, Jeremy Scahill, Medea Benjamin, The Kings Bay Plowshares 7, Martha Hennessy, Steve Kelly, Carmen Trotta, Clare Grady, Elizabeth McAlister, Mark Colville and Patrick ONeill.

Hello Capital Region! This is the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, broadcasting from the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY. Today, we start of with an episode of Lifting Voices with NAACP and the League of Women Voters discussing Governor Cuomo's executive order that all voters receive absentee ballots, Then, for our weekly peace bucket we talk to Martha Hennessy of the Kings Bay 7 about her upcoming sentencing for a protest against the Trident nuclear submarine. And later on, Aileen Javier speaks with Unity House's Director of Development Diane Cameron about Unity House child care program during COVID. Then we talk with Gary Keppel of longfield farm, located in Albany County We finish up with a story on the impact of COVID on the local music scene.

On April 4, 2019 , 7 peace activists were arrested for protesting the trident nuclear submarines at the Kings Bay navy base. We talk with Martha Hennessy of the NYC Mary House Catholic Worker who is facing up to 2 years in jail when she and others are sentenced later this month. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.

Martha and 6 other Catholic workers were arrested when protesting at the King's Bay Trident Nuclear Submarine base in Georgia USA, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King

Anti-nuclear, anti-war protestors from the Kings Bay Plowshares action. Front row (l-r) – Clare Grady, Elizabeth McAlister, Carmen Trotta, Martha Hennessy; Back row: Patrick O’Neill, Stephen Kelly SJ, Mark Colville. This Week’s Featured Interview: Anti-nuclear, anti-war – the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. These Catholic Peace Activists performed a peaceful action protesting the nuclear weapons aboard...

In April of last year, seven Catholic activists broke into the naval submarine base in Kings Bay, Ga., home to several nuclear-armed submarines. Inside, they carried out nonviolent actions to protest the U.S. nuclear weapon’s program: They spilled their blood on the property, beat weapons with hammers and put crime-scene tape around the base. All seven were arrested, convicted and await sentencing. One of those Catholics was Martha Hennessy. Martha is the granddaughter of another Catholic peace activist: Dorothy Day. We ask her how she prepared spiritually for the protest, how her grandmother has shaped her faith and what she thinks about the state of Catholic activism. In Signs of the Times, we discuss the U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian military leader and how Catholic leaders are (and aren’t) responding. Plus: a 100-gallon blessing of holy water on farmland in Louisiana and Pope Francis’ eventful New Year’s Eve.  Tell us what you think about the episode on our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter and help other listeners find Jesuitical by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts. Please consider supporting the show by becoming a member of our Patreon community. Patrons get access to an exclusive newsletter written by one of your hosts each week! Finally, are you a college senior at a Jesuit college or university interested in writing, journalism or production? Or do you know someone who is? America Media’s Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., Fellowship is an incredible opportunity to live in New York City while working with the smartest, kindest Catholic media professionals out there. The deadline for applications is Jan. 15 so don’t wait. Learn how to apply here: oharefellows.org   Links from the show: Pope Francis prays for dialogue as tensions mount between the U.S. and Iran The U.S. killing of Soleimani could have devastating consequences for Iraq’s Christians Louisiana parish uses plane to bless town with 100 gallons of holy water Pope shows up unannounced at funeral Mass of Italian lay woman and friend Pope Francis SlapGate   What’s on tap? Father Andy’s Manhattan: Four(!) parts bourbon, one part sweet vermouth, splash of bitters and a maraschino cherry

The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 [KBP7] have been found guilty by a Federal Grand Jury in Brunswick, Georgia this month for trespassing and destroying property on the Trident Submarine Naval Base in St Marys. The conversation with defendants Martha Hennessy and Carmen Trotta took place in the library of the Catholic Worker's Maryhouse in the Bowery section of Manhattan. They were joined by Anthony Donovan, a member of Witness Against Torture, who attended the four day trial. In the end, the KBP7 defendants were not allowed to make their strong case against nuclear armament -- due to what Carmen described as a "controlled" courtroom by Judge Lisa Godbey Wood.See more on what happened in the court room ...Video of statements made after the verdict ... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Seven Catholic peace activists are going on trial in Georgia today for breaking into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base on April 4, 2018. The activists, who are known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, face up to 25 years in prison if convicted. The activists entered the base armed with just hammers, crime scene tape, baby bottles containing their own blood and an indictment charging the U.S. government with crimes against peace. Over the past four decades activists in the Plowshares movement have taken part in about 100 similar actions at nuclear arms facilities, beginning in 1980 at the General Electric nuclear missile plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. We recently spoke to Catholic nun Liz McAlister, who goes on trial today with her co-defendants Father Stephen Kelly, Mark Colville, Patrick O'Neill, Carmen Trotta, Clare Grady and Martha Hennessy, who is the granddaughter of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement. They all have been charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor. The post Kings Bay Plowshares 7: Trial Begins for Liz McAlister & Others for Breaking Into Nuke Sub Base appeared first on KPFA.

The Kingsbay Ploughshares 7 are facing 25 years in prison for their action at a nuclear submarine base. We speak with six of them: Elizabeth McAlister, Martha Hennessy, Mark Colville, Clare Grady, Patrick O'Neill, and Carmen Trotta. https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/

We have talked with the peace activists of the Catholic Worker movement on several BCR episodes [#29 & #46 with bonus material] and knew that the seven men and women who broke into the U.S. Kings Bay Naval Base at St. Marys, Georgia would be in court in Brunswick in mid-August. This submarine base is where the U.S. military stores its Trident nuclear missiles. We wanted to talk with four of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, who were under house arrest and on bail, about the hearing and how they were doing. That week was also the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and there were protests going on outside the Kings Bay Naval Base. So, while Becky and I sat at her brother's dining room table in Santa Maria, California, we called south Georgia.We first talked with Kathy Kelly, Brian Terrell, and Anthony Donovan while they were fasting and holding a vigil outside the gates of the Kings Bay Naval Base.The next day we spoke with four of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. The day before they had argued in the Federal Court in Brunswick Georgia that the case against them be dropped based on RFRA – the Religious Freedom Restoration Act – which requires the government to prove a compelling state interest if it restricts a person’s free exercise of religious beliefs – a defense successfully used by the Religious Right. We talked with Carmen Trotta, Martha Hennessy, Clare Grady, and Patrick O’Neill.Here are some resources that were mentioned during our conversations:Anthony Donovan recommended -- "Warheads to Windmills: How to Pay for a Green New Deal." A report that relates spending on nuclear warheads to ending the dangers of Global Warming.The Doomsday Machine. by Daniel Ellsberg (2017).No Immediate Danger? : Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth. by Rosalie Bertell (2006).Planet Earth The Latest Weapon of War: A Critical Study into the Military and the Environment. By Rosalie Bertell (2000)Nuclear Issues Study Group -- "Dismantling the Nuclear Beast". nukewatchinfo.orgTreaty for the Prevention of Nuclear Weapons ICAN -- International Campaign to Abolition Nuclear Weapons See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On April 4, 2018, seven Catholic activists entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary's Georgia to symbolically disarm the Trident nuclear submarines housed there. They are now awaiting trial and face up to 25 years in prison. On this week of their upcoming oral arguments in Georgia, which coincides with the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, three of them, Martha Hennessy, Carmen Trotta and Clare Grady, tell us what they did and why. 1:00 -- The antinuclear activists: "on the wrong side of history"? 2:43 -- Martha, Carmen, and Clare introduce themselves7:55 -- Clare takes issue with my use of the word "illegal" (oops!) 9:17 -- The teachings of Jesus and the institutional Church10:42 -- What is the real "criminal conspiracy"? 11:15 -- Acting in the 40 year tradition of the Ploughshares movement17:30 -- The significance of the date19:20 -- Why the Kings Bay Naval Base? 20:20 -- What is happening next week and the 4 points to dismiss the charges and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act23:13 -- Why they did this: time to "up the ante" and silence as complicity28:30 -- What are the "delusions to which we as a country are addicted"? 34:11 -- Is the nuclear issue a thing of the past? 35:07 -- Carmen provides a brief overview of past possibilities for disarmament and how the U.S. provoked a new Cold War37:10 -- Where does the legal case stand now? When is the trial? 39:22 -- Events happening THIS WEEK in Georgia and D.C.40:28 -- The nuclear issue as it stands today43:38 -- "Gangster Grannies"Read their indictment of Trident: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/about/indictment-1/Sign the petition to dismiss all charges: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/act-now/See upcoming events happening Aug. 6 - 11, 2019 in Georgia and D.C.: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/events/Read The Long Loneliness written by Martha's grandmother, Dorothy Day: https://www.amazon.com/Long-Loneliness-Autobiography-Legendary-Catholic/dp/0060617519Listen to interviews with Martha and Clare on the Nonviolent Direct Action podcast: Jack Gilroy interviews Clare Grady -- https://player.fm/series/nonviolent-direct-action/nda-1-clare-grady-kings-bay-plowshares-activistEllen Grady interviews Martha Hennesy -- https://player.fm/series/nonviolent-direct-action/nda-12-swords-into-plowsharesOther things mentioned in the podcast: Camden 28 -- http://www.pbs.org/pov/camden28/Pacem In Terris -- http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-xxiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_j-xxiii_enc_11041963_pacem.htmlIsaiah Chapter 2: http://www.usccb.org/bible/isaiah/2Nuremberg Principles: http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/draft_articles/7_1_1950.pdfThe Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg: https://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Machine-Confessions-Nuclear-Planner/dp/1608196704"Beyond Vietnam" speech by MLK, Jr.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1Ru2p8OfUCivil Trial of MLK finds conspiracy involving elements of the U.S. government: https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/MLKconExp.htmlicanw.org -- http://www.icanw.org -- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear WeaponsAlrighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age -- https://www.amazon.com/Almighty-Courage-Resistance-Existential-Nuclear/dp/0735212317Every nuclear explosion since 1945: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrYFind us at: www.catholicsagainstmilitarism.comFind our podcast/RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171

Martha Hennessy & Carmen Trotta & the Catholic Worker MovementWe spoke with two of the "stars" of the anti-nuclear proliferation movement -- Martha Hennessy and Carmen Trotta. They are members of the Catholic Worker Movement founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, committed to voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and forsaken.Martha and Carmen are under house arrest for trespassing onto the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary’s Georgia on April 4, 2018. Their team of seven entered the Strategic Weapons Facility—Atlantic Administration Building where the Trident nuclear missiles are stored. Their charges carry a maximum penalty of over 20 years in a federal prison. For more information -- Kings Bay Plowshare 7Becky and I were joined on the Gebhard's Beer Culture Porch by Antony Donovan of Witness Against Torture and members of the Michigan Catholic Worker Movement.Any questions or comments we might use on upcoming episode? Let us know what you think of BCR programming -- barcrawlradio@gmail.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

BCR #46 EXTRAFollowing is a talk by Brian Terrel at the Catholic Worker's Maryhouse (June 7, 2019--Lower Eastside, Manhattan, NYC) on the efficacy of arrest to engender peace and positive social change. Brian is a long-time member of the Catholic Worker Movement and writes for the National Catholic Reporter and The Catholic Worker. He is a leader in several peace activist groups – including Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Witness Against Torture. When not protesting, marching, fasting for peace or getting arrested for his civil disobedience, Brian lives and works on his farm in Maloy, Iowa with his wife BetsyRecently. Brian walked 100 miles in Georgia in support of several activists who had trespassed on to the Kings Bay Naval Station in Georgia and who are now facing serious federal charges – Becky and I had a conversation with two of these brave peace activists and Catholic Workers -- Carmen Trotta and Martha Hennessy on BCR #46. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Since the end of the Soviet Union, most activists have turned their attention from nuclear weapons. But the nuclear threat never went away and now Trump appears to be launching a new arms race. Yet over the last forty years, participants in the Ploughshares movement have put their bodies on the line to oppose nuclear weapons. Clare Grady and Martha Hennessy, two members of the Kings Bay Ploughshares Seven who both face 25 years in federal prison, discuss the danger posed by nuclear weapons, and how their community sustains civil resistance, which demands great personal sacrifice.  Hennessy also talks about her grandmother, Catholic Worker movement founder Dorothy Day. Resources: Kings Bay Ploughshares Sign Global Petition to Dismiss Charges Against Anti-Nuclear Plowshares Activists Facing 25 Years International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Don't Bank on the Bomb   The post Against Nuclear Annihilation appeared first on KPFA.

Ryan Grim, the Washington DC bureau chief of The Intercept, discusses the departure of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Neilsen and the historic War Powers Resolution vote that just passed Congress. Investigative reporter Aura Bogado, of Reveal, discusses the Trump administration’s current immigration policies, the ongoing family separations and Bernie Sanders rejection of the concept of “open borders.”  The Intercept’s Micah Lee discusses the bizarre case of the Chinese national who talked her way onto Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with a bunch of cash, USB drives with malware and some counter surveillance equipment.  Two Catholic Worker peace activists explain why they snuck onto a US military base, poured their own blood and attempted to deliver an indictment of President Trump. Carmen Trotta of the New York Catholic Worker and Martha Hennessy, the granddaughter of Dorothy Day, discuss their legal strategy, why they acted, and the history of the Plowshares movement.

1) His week that was- Kevin Healy 2) Arrests at Nuclear Missile Base in Georgia, U.s.- Martha Hennessy, Catholic Worker Movement 3) Report back from V.C.A.T. hearing re: hazardous site in Fawkner 4) Death of Guatemala tyrant Rios Mont and Lula Da Silva- former President of Brazil now in jail there- Professor Emeritus James Petras in New Yorl 5) Venezuela, Middle east fake news re: Russia, why protests in Nicaragua- Dr Tim Anderson

Today's guest is Martha Hennessy, Granddaughter of Dorothy Day. She talks about the Catholic Worker. Their website for more information is at Catholic Worker.

Today's guest is Martha Hennessy, Granddaughter of Dorothy Day. She talks about the Catholic Worker. Their website for more information is at Catholic Worker.

Martha Hennessy, the seventh grandchild of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, delivered the 2011 Rev. William J. Young Social Justice Institute Annual lecture titled, "The Increasing Relevance of the Catholic Worker Movement for Engaging 21st Century Problems." The lecture is named in honor of President Emeritus Rev. William J. Young.