I watched my 85-year-old wife, hunched over her red three-wheel walker as she pushed towards the line of twenty Military Police dressed in full riot gear…
Jeff Dietrich is a founding member of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker, a lay community dedicated to progressive social justice work and part of the Catholic Worker movement founded over 80 years ago by radical Catholic thinker and activist Dorothy Day. Since 1970, Dietrich has been committed to the care of homeless, poor, and marginalized people on L.A.’s skid row. He has been arrested for acts of civil disobedience more than forty times. He has written about his political beliefs and the experience of poverty for the Catholic Agitator newspaper for more than forty-five years.