Justice Resource Library

 

Africa

How much do you know about Africa?  Click here to take a short quiz.

 

Book Reviews

Click here to read a book review by Joe Barrish SM on "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man".

 

Child Exploitation

World Council of the Marianist Family adopts child exploitation/child labor as a global social justice priority for Marianists. Click here for details.

 "A Contemporary Analysis of Child Labor " by MSJC intern Johanna Cook

 

Ecology & Environment

Real Money offers article called "Carbon Offsets Demystified."  To read it click here.

The Mount St. John Green Team offers resources on compact fluorescent light bulbs.  To learn more click here.

 

Fair Trade

Fair trade websites - click here

Hunger

Education for Justice offers a good resource on the Food Bill relating it to issues of hunger.  To learn more click here. 

 

Immigration

Click here to read the Steering Committee's statement on Immigration Reform

Click here to read “Looking at Root Causes – Why Do Immigrants Come to the US?”

Op-ed article by Brian Halderman SM on immigration reform - Click here

 

Latin America

"In Guatemala, Officers' Killings Echo Dirty War" by JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.


Poverty

Catholic Charities offers a policy paper entitled "Poverty in America: A Threat to the Common Good."  To read it click here

Education for Justice offers a Debt and Poverty Bible Study.  To get resource click here

Take the Poverty Quiz. Click here.

 

Reports

Joint MSJC/Faith and Culture Task Force Conference (July 2004) – description, participants, etc.

2003-04 MSJC Annual Report

2005-2006 MSJC Annual Report

 

Social Justice (general)

Millennium Development Goals – What are they? Why should I care? Click here to find out.

Excerpt from The Holy Longing by Fr. Ronald Rolheiser – an excellent summary of Christian social justice principles

The Center for Economic and Social Justice – A Vision and Means for Social Change by Paul Merland SM

Education for Justice background paper focusing on “What is the common good?

 

Sustainability/Simple Living

50 Ways to Thrive (and Survive) in the Next 10 years – click here

10 Ways to Simplify Christmas from Education for Justice

Go Green for Your Holiday Gifts from Real Money

"17 Steps to Staying Spiritually Alive for the Long Haul”

 

Torture

Guantanamo - Make a Difference! - Act Now!  Read MSJC member Richard Sroczynski's letter urging us into action.  Click here

 

Voting

"Voting for the Common Good" by Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good

"Voting God's Politics" by Sojourners

 

 

Links – to other Marianist and social justice-oriented groups and organizations