![]() ![]() Trotta, a bachelor who wears his late father’s wedding ring, seems pretty saintly himself. Joseph’s House of Hospitality residence and soup kitchen. A homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk outside the St. ![]() ![]() Three years earlier, Day cofounded the Catholic Worker movement and she is now being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church. The house was established by Christian anarchist Dorothy Day in 1936. Joseph’s House of Hospitality, a graffiti-splashed, five-story Catholic Worker residence and soup kitchen at 36 E. “Twelve days, that’s the longest I spent for Guantanamo,” said Trotta, at St. enemy combatants at the Navy’s detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, otherwise known as Gitmo. Members, many dressed in orange jumpsuits and black hoods, railed about the suicides and abuse suffered by inmates held indefinitely without trial as U.S. In a recent interview while still a free man, he told The Village Sun that most of his arrests were for misdemeanor acts of nonviolent civil disobedience under the aegis of a group he cofounded called Witness Against Torture. Spending time behind bars is nothing new for the energetic 58-year-old Trotta, who has been busted and sent to varied slammers so many times over the years that he can’t remember the exact number. 18, 3 a.m.:Prominent East Village pacifist Carmen Trotta, a Catholic Worker volunteer who opposed the war in Iraq and led a march on Washington, D.C., against the war on terror in 2002, was scheduled to report to a federal prison camp Monday for his actions during a 2018 anti-nuke protest in Georgia, according to one of his lawyers. ![]()
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