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1. I want to subscribe or get a copy of The Catholic Worker
newspaper.
The Catholic Worker newspaper is not online.
Subscription or copy requests must be sent by regular mail to The
Catholic Worker, 36 East First Street, New York, NY 10003, United
States. 212-777-9617. The newspaper was started by Dorothy Day
herself in New York City in the 1930s'. The price has been and will
remain a penny a copy, excluding mailing costs. It is issued seven times
per year and a year's subscription is available for 25 cents (30 cents
for foreign subscriptions), though all donations in excess of that
amount go to the hospitality houses associated with the paper, Maryhouse
and St. Joseph House.
2. How do I volunteer?
Contact us in San Diego:
3. I want to start a Catholic Worker house.
Anyone can start a Catholic Worker house. You do not need permission
to call yourself a Catholic Worker. Before you do so, however, you would
probably want to make sure that your philosophy and activities are
generally in accord with
The Aims and Means of
the Catholic Worker. Our general advice is:
Start small. You can always expand when you get more resources and
people.
Visit and live in an existing Catholic Worker for a while to make
sure that this is really a lifestyle for you.
Check out the zoning, occupancy, and public health laws of your
community. Whether or not you choose to comply with them is up to you
but it's good to know them in case you run into difficulties.
Build a network of people, religious institutions, and charitable
organizations who can support you. You can start a Catholic Worker
house by yourself but working in community is a whole lot easier and
most houses don't last very long without outside help.
Know the laws and requirements governing tax exemption and
charitable solicitation in your community. The Catholic Worker has
traditionally
refused tax exemption but some houses have departed from this
philosophy for fundraising purposes. Again, whether or not you choose
to comply with these laws is up to you.
Pray, pray, pray.
When you have started a Catholic Worker house, please send
information about your new house to The Catholic Worker newspaper
(See Question 1), the online Catholic Worker Directory of Communities
(See Question 2) and the Catholic Worker Archives (See Question 4).
4. I want printed information, photos, etc... about Dorothy Day
and the Catholic Worker.
All the information we have is on this Web site and those to which it
is linked. You are welcome to download anything you want for personal
use. Please observe any copyright restrictions. News media or publishers
wanting photographs or scholars wanting primary materials for research
are invited to contact the
Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection at Marquette University.
5. How do I get copyright permission to reproduce Catholic Worker
art by Fritz Eichenberg, Ade Bethune, and others?
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Fritz Eichenberg used to make his art work available free to any
Catholic Worker publication when he was alive. Since he has passed on,
his artistic estate is being managed by an intellectual property firm
named VAGA: Visual Artists and Galleries Association, Inc. They do not
share Eichenberg's philosophy and will charge you an arm and a leg to
reproduce his work if you decide to contact them — even for nonprofit,
non-commercial use. It's sad, really, and we would hope that some
generous benefactor would buy the rights to Eichenberg's Catholic
Worker pieces and donate them to the Catholic Worker Archives so that
they might be publicly and freely available for non-commercial use as
he had intended. Most CW newspapers with limited circulation don't
know or don't care about this and continue to use Eichenberg's work as
before. Contact:
VAGA, Inc.
350 Fifth Avenue
Suite 6305
New York, NY 10018
(212) 736-6666
(212) 736-6767 (fax)
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Ade Bethune makes any of her Catholic Worker art available for
nonprofit, non-commercial use. She does ask that a donation, scaled to
profit or non-profit use, be given to the College of St Catherine
library for maintenance of her archives, the Ade Bethune Collection,
which is a conduit for these requests. For particulars, see
http://www.stkate.edu/library/spcoll/bethune.html.
For other Catholic Worker artists, we have no information and
suggest you contact The Catholic Worker newspaper or the
Archives for assistance.
6. I'm looking for a copy of the poster or the famous photo of
Dorothy Day on the United Farm Workers picket line
The poster, with the quotation "Our problems stem from our acceptance
of this filthy rotten system", is available online from Donnelly/Colt
Progressive Resources Catalog at
http://www.progressivecatalog.com/catalog/socjusposter.html.
The original photo on which the poster was based was taken by Bob
Fitch. Information on reproduction of this and other photos of Dorothy
Day by Bob Fitch is available from: Bob Fitch Photo, 515 Broadway, Santa
Cruz, CA 95060. Tel: 831/460-0112. E-mail:
bob@bobfitchphoto.com. Web
site:
http://www.bobfitchphoto.com/
7. Other Questions:
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Send all historical questions not answered by available
online information, as well as requests for copies of old
Catholic Worker articles and other archival documents to
Phillip Runkel, Phil.Runkel@marquette.edu,
at the Catholic Worker Archives. For articles by Dorothy Day, please
check the Dorothy
Day Library on the Web to make sure they are not already available
online.
Send all Catholic Worker house address changes, openings,
and closings to Jim Allaire at
jallaire@home.com.
Send comments and suggestions for the Catholic Worker Home
Page and report non-working links to
agf@cais.com. Due to time
constraints, I may not be able to answer all correspondence
personally.
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