Ignatian Advocacy Alerts
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Green Bag Lunch Series: No More Empty Pots
07 February 2014 7:19 AM | No CommentsCome to the CCSJ on Friday, February 21st, from 12:30-2 to learn about food sustainability in the Omaha area! The first of the Spring 2014 GreenBag Lunch Series will feature Susan Whitfield of No More Empty Pots. Susan will be giving a presentation and leading...
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Peace: Free Yorm Bopha
07 December 2013 3:03 PM | No CommentsAmnesty International This may be our last best chance to free Yorm Bopha. She is a powerful voice for the rights of the Boeung Kak Lake community in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where thousands of people have been forcibly evicted since 2007. The Cambodian government has...
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Migration: Farmworkers
06 December 2013 2:56 PM | No CommentsNetwork Many farmworkers in our country are immigrants, and with H.R. 1773, the Agricultural Guestworker Act (AG Act) in the House of Representatives, seasonal farmworkers, or “agricultural guestworkers” could see many of their already fragile worker protections stripped. Specifically, H.R. 1773 would promote wage theft...
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Upcoming Events: Climate Action Meeting
06 December 2013 2:13 PM | No CommentsClimate Action Meeting All are welcome to the meeting at Augustana Lutheran Church on Saturday, December 7th, from 11:45am-2pm.
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CCSJ Blogs, News, and Upcoming Events
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My Fast for Families
Posted on March 6, 2014 | No CommentsThis Lenten season marks five years since my family was established. Five years since my husband, Yader, and I made the journey from Nicaragua to St. Louis for the first time together, and five years since US Homeland Security became an intimate member of our... -
What does fasting really mean?
Posted on March 6, 2014 | No CommentsI’m beginning to wish I hadn’t volunteered to write the first blog post, because I don’t understand what I’m doing as much as I hope I will by the end of Lent. I keep reading articles, hoping to find one that tells me what fasting... -
Our Neighborhood, Our World
Posted on March 3, 2014 | No CommentsAs we begin to look forward towards Lent, a quick look back at someone whose intentional life teachings can help us reconnect with God as innocently and fully as a child. Creighton and CCSJ alum, Ben McCann, reflecting on the Anniversary of Fred Rogers’ death... -
An Inside Look
Posted on February 27, 2014 | No Comments“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life’s Purpose I have recently read a lot about the path to enlightenment and peace. And I find it very... -
Dorothy Stang, S.N.D: A Modern Martyr
Posted on February 20, 2014 | No CommentsDorothy Stang was a Sister of Notre Dame. She was born in the United States, but worked and served poor communities in Brazil from the late 1960’s to February 12th, 2005, when she was murdered. She worked to organize Brazilian peasant farmers through the Pastoral... -
Wisconsin/ Chicago-Detroit Provinces of the Society of Jesus: February E-news Social-Interactional Ministries
Posted on February 19, 2014 | No CommentsFebruary E-news: Social-International Ministries FAITH-JUSTICE “No Worker Should Be Forced to Raise a Family in Poverty” says a new Jesuit Conference Advocacy Alert which supports the Fair Minimum Wage Act to raise the federal minimum wage from the current $7.25/hour to $10.10/hour over three years....
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