Mike Fiala

Segment Synopsis: Mike talks about early life. Introductions of Cleveland Catholic Worker and Mikes involvement with CCW. Mike talks about current routines and activities of CCW at the storefront.

Segment Synopsis: Beginnings of CCW. CCW began at St Patricks Catholic Church, before they owned the storefront.

Segment Synopsis: Fiala talks about his introduction to the Catholic Worker Movement. In the 70s he wanted to become part of an intentional community in Cleveland. History of the Near west side.

Segment Synopsis: Historically always been a working class neighborhood. The origins of gentrification in the neighborhood. Took off around 2008. Talks about involvement in affordable housing work. Talks about how tax abatement and subsidies supported gentrification of Near West Side.

Segment Synopsis: Special improvement district includes CCW storefront makes it more difficult to continue to function. Increased police presence increases harrassment of storefront visitors. Mike discusses the hypocracy of harrassment of homeless people and black people by the cops for public intoxication and open container even though these things are ecouraged for wealthy white people moving in. Library harrassment.

Segment Synopsis: Mostly white volunteers. Mike discusses the power of white capitalism and its contradictions with jesus' teachings and CW movement as a practice of true and radical catholicism. Whiteness of catholicism. Fiala talks about the construction of Whiteness in place of identity in familial descent as a function of white american capitalism and nationalism and imperialism.

Segment Synopsis: Mike discusses the many paths people take to end up with the CWM. Fiala criticises the Catholic Church's passivity toward challenging churchgoers to live according to their faith in a radical way.

Segment Synopsis: Deeply catholic roots in CWM, but catholic church opposed to radical social teaching of CWM. Mike argues that the catholic church couldn't handle following Jesus' radical teachings. Mike discusses having to leave his Church because he felt unwanted in his church community due to his protests to the pro-military stance of his church. Mike criticises the idea of a 'just war' as described in the catecism.