Welcome:
We welcome people from Catholic Worker houses across the
country as well as our local volunteers and supporters.
We have a wide variety of presentations and discussions,
Enjoy.
Current Schedule:
Friday, October 7, 2011
Christ the King Catholic Community Center
4925 S. Torrey Pines (cross street: Tropicana)
Las Vegas, NV 89118 Map
10:00 a.m.: Shuttle Bus from Motel 6 parking lot to
Christ the King.
10:30 a.m.: Last Shuttle Bus from Motel 6 to Christ the King
Church.
PLEASE NOTE: We cannot enter Community Center until
11:00 a.m., another group is using Center. Please wait in courtyard.
11:00 a.m. - Noon: Registration (free), Lunch, social time
Noon - 1:00 p.m.: Welcoming Ceremony, Presente!
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Break, social time
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Round Table Discussion #1
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Break, social time
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Round Table Discussion #2
5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.: Dinner, social time
6:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.: Yom Kippur Service, Jim Haber
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.: Sue Ferguson Johnson and Wes Howard-
Brook: “Coming Out of Empire, Within and Without”
8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Social Time, Beverages, Snacks
Cocktails provided by Kelso family.
9:00 p.m.: Shuttle bus from Christ the King parking lot to
Motel 6
9:30 p.m.: Last Shuttle bus from Christ the King parking lot
to Motel 6
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Christ the King Catholic Community Center Map
6:30 a.m. - 7:15 a.m.: Optional trip to Las Vegas Catholic
Worker soup
line. Every Second Saturday of the month, the Knights of
Columbus cook up 600 pancakes, along with eggs, sausage and
potatoes. Join us
on McWilliams St. between G & H Streets (see map in centerfold).
7:00 a.m.: Shuttle Bus from Motel 6 parking lot to Christ the
King.
7:30 a.m.: Last Shuttle Bus from Motel 6 parking lot to Christ
the King.
7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.: Optional Morning Prayer
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.: Breakfast, social time
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Round Table Discussion #3
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Play: “Haunted
by God- The Life of Dorothy Day” performed by Lisa Wagner of the Stillpoint
Theatre
Collective.
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch, social time
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Round Table Discussion #4
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Break, social time
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Wes Howard-Brook and Sue Ferguson
Johnson: “Loving
Our Enemies/Destroying Our Enemies: Which Joshua?”“
5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.: Dinner, social time
6:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.: Slide Show, 25 years, Las Vegas Catholic
Worker
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.: Poetry and Story Telling
8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Music and Dancing (bring your musical
instruments)
9:00 p.m.: Shuttle bus from Christ the King parking lot to
Motel 6
9:30 p.m.: Last Shuttle bus from Christ the King parking lot
to Motel 6
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Nevada Test Site and Creech Air Force Base
8:00 a.m.: Bus leaves Motel 6 parking lot at 8:00 A.M. SHARP!
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: Liturgy at Nevada Test Site and procession
to
gates (Mercury Exit off U.S. 95)
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Optional Civil Disobedience at Gate
of Test
Site. Trespassers will be processed as soon as demonstrators
leave the
Test Site (NNSS) gates. Juveniles trespassing, or those who
enter the
Test Site from other than the cattle guard gates may be taken
to Beatty
or Tonopah for processing.
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Transportation to The Temple of Goddess
Spirituality,
Cactus Springs, lunch.
1 - 2:30 p.m.: Vigil at Gates of Creech Air Force Base
2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.: Travel from Indian Springs back to
Las Vegas
3:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.: Soup and Bread Dinner at the home
of Dale and
Peggy Devitt (see
map, page 3 for location).
6:30 p.m.: Shuttle back to Motel 6.
Notes: Bring water bottles,
sunscreen, musical instruments, and soup
line recipes for recipe book.
Test Site & Creech Air Force Base Civil Disobedience: If
you have any questions about the optional Civil Disobedience
actions at
the Test Site (NNSS) or Creech Air Force Base, please call
Jim Haber at
Nevada
Desert Experience at (702) 646-4814, we have copies
of Test Site
Policies. You can also call the Las Vegas Catholic Worker.
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Round Table Discussions:
Locations:
A: North (Kitchen) Side of Hall
B: South (Parking Lot) Side of Hall
C: Room #5, Community Center
D: Room #6, Community Center
E: Room #7, Community Center
F: Meet in Entrance Alcove in Hall
Round Table Discussions #1 (pick one)
A: Drones and Afghanistan (Jim Haber and Brian Terrell)
B: Catholic Worker and Benedictine Spirituality
(Bryan and Liza Apper)
C: Gender and Sexuality in Intentional Christian
Community (Chelsea Collonge, Marcus Page, Hillary Brown)
D: Are You Called from Peace Jailbird to Prison
Minister (Judith Williams and Terry Hess)
Round Table Discussion #2 (pick one)
A: The Greening of the CW: Peter Maurin and
the Catholic Worker Farm (Eric Anglada and Mary Moody)
B: Catholic
Worker Journey with Cancer, the Poor and the
Executed (Ed Loring, Murphy Davis)
C: Community Sucks: You
Can’t Live in Them and You Can’t Be Faithful Without
Them (Frank Cordaro)
D: Catholic WorkerResistance and Catholic Worker
Families (Rosalie Riegle)
E: Archives (Phil Runkel)
F: Dismantling
Heterosexual Privelege
(Kara Speltz)
Round Table Discussion #3 (pick one)
A: Creech Air Force Base, the Drones, and
the Nevada Test Site (Nevada Desert Experience)
B: Building A Thriving Community: A Model for Healthy Community
Life, 2 hours, will extend into break (Carolyn Griffeth)
C: Art and Resistance: Banners (materials
provided to make your picket signs)
D: Ten Years of Guantanamo: Witness Against
Torture; Action, Discernment and Discussion (Carmen Trotta,
Ted Walker, Beth Brockman)
E: Peter Maurin's Thought on War and Peace,
He registered for the draft in WWII at age 64 (Harry Murray)
G: Trip to Las Vegas Catholic Worker,
volunteers will transport to and from church (please RSVP:
Gary 702-327-0940,
Julia 702-234-0755)
Round Table Discussion #4 (pick one)
A: Deepening Nonviolence (Pace e
Bene)
B: Immigration Reform (Alice Linsmeier)
C: Parenting As Resistance (Mary Beth Apel
and Tensie Hernandez)
D: Catholic Worker Journalism and Publications
(Schaeffer-Duffy)
E: ROTC on College Campuses (Martha Hennessy)
F: Harm Reduction (Fr. River Sims)
G: Trip to Las Vegas Catholic Worker, volunteers
will transport to and from church (please RSVP: Gary 702-327-0940,
Julia 702-234-0755)
Housing:
Motel: We have reserved 30 rooms at the Motel
6 (#67), 195
East Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas, NV 89119.
This motel is 1.9 miles from the airport and on a direct
bus route to Christ the King Catholic Community. You
can reserve directly online at motel6.com or
if you get a higher rate than our confirmed rate (below), call 1-
800-544-4866, our Confirmation # is M006700696.
Confirmed rates per night (Fri. & Sat.): 1 person: $50,
2 people: $56, 3 people: $59, 4 people: $62, Thurs.: 1
person: $32, 2 people: $38, 3 people: $44, 4: $50.
Low Income folks: We received generous donations
for this event, so we are offering low cost housing and
reserved 10 rooms at the Motel 6 for 40 people (4
people per room). We are asking for a donation of $6
per person per night. Please let us know soon so we
can reserve more rooms if needed. If you can sleep
on floor or share double beds that will help. Sleeping
bag space will not be available at the church and the
homes of volunteers are already filled with people coming to the event.
Transportation:
Airport Shuttle:Please e-mail or call if you
still need a pickup. If you are
being picked up, please go to the “Passenger Pickup Area”,
straight out the
doors, East, from the hallway outside the Baggage Claim Area,
and then
across the bridge. Do not go to Shuttle or Taxi or Rental Car
Areas, please.
Shuttles: Will leave from Motel 6 on Friday
Morning, Oct. 7 at 10:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.;
on Saturday morning, Oct. 8 at 7:00 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.; and on
Sunday morning, Oct. 9 at 8:00 a.m.
Bus: People can carpool from the Motel 6 for
the event, but CAT Bus Rout e #201 goes West on
Tropicana every 25 minutes on weekdays and every
hour on weekends. It is a 19 minute ride. To catch the
Westbound Bus from Motel 6 to the church, go right
on Tropicana (East) to Koval Lane, cross Tropicana,
and catch the bus on the north side of Tropicana and
Koval Lane.
To Test Site and Creech: We will be renting
vans, but it is important for you to let us know if you need
a ride to the Test Site or if you have room to transport
others.
Rideshare: Visit http://cwgathering2011.erideshare.com to
offer, request, or search for a rideshare. The group password is: cwg2011.
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