In New York, we meet Autumn Brown and Sam, a Catholic
anarchist couple and their multi-ethnic collective. “ What does it mean to be a practicing
anarchist Catholic? I guess it means, simply, that we are both practicing
Catholics as well as practicing anarchists. Our church
community is a wonderfully radical Catholic community,
very liberated in terms of its relationship to the
Catholic faith and the church.” Autumn
works in an alternative public health organization.
Sam is
working on a boat and also on his book “Abrahamic
Anarchists”. He traces
their tradition to Dorothy Day and her socialist Catholic
paper. Autumn and Sam still
do not know how they will vote, if at all: “ Election
is both an ineffective way of making group decisions,
and also an empty action unless done at the most local
of levels or as part of a voter block.”
A view of the entire journey.
For
more on Autumn and Sam please go to Portraits
of the Week.
For some of the scenes we filmed during our visit, please go to the home
page.
