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Justice Jottings
September 2005
An Email Update from the Marianist Social Justice Collaborative (MSJC)
New on our website!!
Hurricane Katrina - Click here to visit the SM Peace and Justice Office website for an update on Marianist response and what you can do to help. The Marianist Sisters of San Antonio have started an Internet prayer ministry for those affected by Katrina. Send your petitions of need or prayers of thanksgiving to sisterprayers@yahoo.com. To read some sobering reflections on the connections of Katrina and poverty, click here.
A new Justice Reflection by Bro. Bill Farrell SM - "Called as a Marianist to Be with the Poor". Click here to read it.
Read an excellent summary of Christian social justice principles from Fr. Ronald Rolheiser's book, "The Holy Longing."
Visit us at: www.msjc.net
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. Once you've got a password, click here to check out the interesting comments on the relationship between justice and charity. 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.
Scroll down to read over the following items:
Issue Teams Update - see the website for more details
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Anti-Racism
Our subgroup, the Cultural Audit team, will do a pilot workshop at the North American Center for Marianist Studies (NACMS) office in Dayton in the fall. The focus: increasing cultural awareness and appreciation of differences that too often divide us. After the initial workshop our team will offer it to any Marianist groups or communities who may be interested. Contact Joanne McCracken - maypoint@aol.com - for more information.
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Ecology & Environment
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Volunteers Needed - The Archdiocese of Cincinnati's Social Action Office, in collaboration with local parishes and ministries including those at Mount St. John in Dayton, will host an International Artisan Market featuring fair trade goods from around the world at Bergamo Center on Dec. 10. Goods will be ordered from Catholic Relief Service's Work of Human Hands Project, and we are also seeking goods from areas of active Marianist missions. We are in need of a number of volunteers prior to and during the sale to help with setting up tables, taking inventory, constructing education displays, coordinating a children's area, and much more. To lend a hand or for more information, email Tara Poling.
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The Ecology & Environment Issue Team and the B-W Greenway Community Land Trust have produced a guide to locally grown food in the Dayton area. For more information, visit the EEIT web page.
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Sweatshop Labor
Team meeting on Oct. 14. Will focus especially on follow up to:
1. The visit by UD students Ben Schnier and Emily Nohner to factories in Bangladesh that produce clothing for Wal-Mart,
2. St. Mary grad student Joe Jacobson's work as an intern with Fr. Bill Christensen in developing the strategy for a worker-owned factory in Bangladesh.
Contact Chair Al Prendergast for more information.
Be an Advocate for Justice
Click here to find out how you can help put global poverty back on the UN Summit agenda on Sept. 14-18 and affirm the Millennium Development Goals.
Resources - know any good ones? Share them with us
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The Virtual Learning Community for Faith Formation at the U. of Dayton is offering an online course on Catholic Social Teaching beginning Oct. 16.
Click here for details.
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Click here for a special prayer for the International Day of Peace, Sept. 21.
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Want to find a film with a social justice theme? Click here for some suggestions.
Events
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The Adele Social Justice Project is offering a weekend immersion experience on Oct. 7-9 for young adults (ages 20-40) that will help participants to deepen their commitment to social justice & Catholic Social Teaching by emphasizing the spirit of Adele de Trenquelleon, founder of the Marianist Sisters, in addition to the general Marianist Charism. For more information, click here.
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Call to Action National Conference "Religion, Money and Politics: What's God Got to Do with It?" Nov. 4-6. Click here for info.
A Thought to Ponder
The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.
- Jimmy Carter
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