Correspondents
Proximity by Martín Zaldivar Hi Mark, … The last two years have been rough. New York City can be a very lonely place, and I miss my good friends, as well as the calmness of…
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Huzzah!/1
Dear Safety by Cami Kasmerchak I want nothing to do with you. I throw off your constrictive, binding shackles in order to pursue a fuller life. A life worth living. A life worth losing. I…
Solidaridad/1
In the mid-1980s while working at St. William Church in Louisville, I was involved with the Sanctuary Movement. The church offered hospitality to a couple from El Salvador, Manuel and Maria Elena. They were the…
This Is What She Said So Often
“Marko, I just want to be a good person.” Mev Puleo
Facing The Facts/4
Reminiscence from Sister Marian Cowan, Mev’s spiritual director It was with deep pain that I recall the two calls in which Mev informed me of her brain tumor and subsequently asked me to be present…
It Can Be So Appealing
Or let me tell you another story I heard about twenty years ago from a black civil rights activist who came up to study at Harvard Law School-it kind of illustrates some of the other…
Disponibilidade
I first learned this Portuguese word from Mev, when she worked in Brazil among so many radical, radiant Christians. Here’s how she defined it in her book, The Struggle Is One: “a disposition of openness…
We’ll Always Have Berkeley
Letter/3 (Dissidents/4) —The Book of Mev In August 1995 as Mev and I were getting settled in our new home in St. Louis, we learned that Steve Kelly had been arrested for a Plowshares action…
We’ll Always Have Berkeley
Letter/3 (Dissidents/4) —The Book of Mev In August 1995 as Mev and I were getting settled in our new home in St. Louis, we learned that Steve Kelly had been arrested for a Plowshares action…
“I Belong to Chomsky”
The following is the chapter, “Peril,” from The Book of Mev. Spring 1994 was blooming in the Bay Area. We participated in a Good Friday demonstration at the Lawrence Livermore nuclear laboratory with Steve…