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Y’all Come!!
MLNNA Continental Assembly - “Come to Cana:
Many Stories, One Table, One Family” July 27-30
in San Antonio. Click here for details and see below for
information about Focus Groups.
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Interested in getting more involved in the work of
the Anti-Racism Team? The team meets in
Dayton on June 17-18. New folks are welcome.
Contact chair, Fr. Ted Cassidy –
tcassidy@capemaymarianists.org – for more info.
Resource Packet on the Marianist Pledge to Eliminate
Racism –
click here . To get a copy by mail, email
jimvogt2@yahoo.c
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STARVIN' FOR JUSTICE 2006, the 13th
Annual Fast and Vigil to Abolish the Death
Penalty, will take place at the US Supreme Court
June 29 to July 2. MSJC is (again) a sponsor. Get all
the info at their website - http:/
/www.abolition.org/starvin13.html. If you can't
go to Washington, DC, consider fasting in solidarity
with those who will be there. Click on Solidarity
Activities on their website.
Impending Executions
Thirty Years After Gregg
July 2 marks the 30th anniversary of the landmark
Gregg v. Georgia ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court,
which upheld newly revised death penalty statutes
after having called this punishment "arbitrary,
capricious and discriminatory" just four years earlier.
Since then more than 1000 prisoners have been
executed, while about 3400 sit on death rows
throughout the US. More information, including links
(in the right hand column) to a resource packet and
a study guide, can be found at
http://www.amnestyusa.org/abolish/gregg/
Death Penalty Issue Team Meets in Baltimore
At its annual meeting on May 5-7, the issue team
decided to focus its energies in the coming year on
the Moratorium Campaigns in five states:
California,
Maryland, Missouri, Ohio and Texas. More
information and resources will be available on the
team's website in the coming weeks. While in
Baltimore, the team members joined a rally held to
kickoff a three-day anti-death penalty march from
Baltimore to Annapolis.
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| Sweatshop Labor |
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Alison Radalet, teacher at Chaminade-Julienne HS in
Dayton and member of the MSJC Steering Committee,
is the coordinator of the team’s new project aimed at
increasing the involvement of Marianist high schools
in the sweatshop labor issue. Watch for updates on
the development of this project.
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| War and Peace |
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Want to be more involved in addressing the
Darfur
crisis? The team is providing information and
action
proposals. To participate, contact us at
hironakafmi@yahoo.com or 210-433-5501.
The team is considering a fundraiser in the fall,
possibly a Film Festival that will feature a prominent
personality in film or literature.
Congratulations to team members Floyd
Contreras,
Cynthia Sias and Jennifer Buchmeyer who are
representing St. Mary’s University at the Marianist
University Meeting in Honolulu this week. They are
all campus leaders who also devote many hours to
social justice efforts.
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| Adele Social Justice Project |
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Project leaders are meeting June 2-4 in Washington
DC to plan the next social justice immersion weekend
for young adults, scheduled for November. The
immersion is a challenging weekend of experiencing
the reality of urban justice issues and reflecting
together on their own call in light of Marianist social
justice perspectives.
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| MSJC Steering Committee Update |
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MSJC now has a new part-time Assistant to the
Director – Andrea Stiles. Welcome Andrea! You can
reach her at
apsjustice@hotmail.com.
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| Events |
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MLNNA Continental Assembly Focus Groups
Since the Assembly is a time to share information and
gather with intention, there will be times for
focus group meetings as well as tables
for resource displays. Rooms and tables are
limited. Click here for a
reservation form or contact Susan Vogt - svogt@fuse.net -
or Jeff Campbell - jcampbell@clevelandcatholiccharities.org. Cost
is $10 Deadline – June 30.
Social Action Summer Institute
July 16-21, U. of Dayton. Click here for more information.
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| Resources - know any good ones? Share them with us. |
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Join Marianists worldwide! Pray the Magnificat
every Friday – for exploited children. Click here for more info. If
you’d like to receive a weekly reminder each Friday
along with a short reflection, send an email to
mlnnacom@yahoo.com.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious
(LCWR) has developed 2 excellent action
statements
on the Death Penalty (click here) and
Racism
(click here.)
CODEPINK Women for Peace (click
here) – seeking to end the war in Iraq.
A Litany of Ashes and Stone - In Memory of the
Dead of 9/11 & All Victims of Terrorism and War,
from the Institute for Peace and Justice - click here
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if
you just show up and try to do the right thing, the
dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you
don’t give up.
Anne Lamott
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New on Our Website
June 23-26 is the final weekend experience of faith
and justice in New Orleans – “Katrina and New
Orleans – Lessons Learned”. Click here
for more info. Read about the April trip to New
Orleans by 11 Marianists – click here . More photos – click here .
Have you visited our “Social Justice ..... on the
Light Side” section recently? There are usually
some postings there that will give you a chuckle. A new one to check out – is
“67 and Pregnant.”
Remember - Our website is interactive. We’d
like to hear from you! Just get a password and you
can enter into current discussions with other MSJC
members or start a new discussion. NOTE – if you
are using the AOL browser, you can view the website
but may not be able to enter any of the discussions
with that browser.
Visit us at www.msjc.net.....
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