Downtown LA Catholic Worker’s Dietrich to read in downtown Manhattan, at Pages
“The Dorothy Day” mural by Dimitri at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker kitchen. Photo by Mike Wisniewski Almost daily for the past four decades, Jeff Dietrich has been in jail or feeding upwards of 1,000 people at the Catholic Worker Kitchen at 6th Street and Gladys Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. At night, whether in jail or at home at the Catholic Worker hospitality house in Boyle Heights, Dietrich writes about protests and the poor for the Catholic Worker Agitator. The monthly newspaper’s subscription is $1/year and not tax deductible because the Los Angeles Catholic Worker is not a 501(c) 3 non profit. The IRS has long since given up threatening to jail Dietrich for failing to pay taxes. Dietrich never pleads innocent nor asks for mercy during sentencing after being arrested for civil disobedience. He knows that he will sleep peacefully in jail and his prosecutor, judge and jury won’t. Dietrich’s sister Anne Smet is a member of American Martyrs Catholic Church in Manhattan Beach, whose parishioners and pastor Monsignor John Barry have been longtime supporters of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker. Jeff Dietrich during a December, 2012 reading from Broken and Shared at Pages…
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