Featured Events:
Spring Break Service Trip Fundraiser at Sam and Louie’s
Please come join the CCSJ at Sam and Louie’s on 24th and Cuming to help support the CCSJ Spring Break Service Trips. 20% of the revenue goes to lowering the cost for participants through scholarships. Sales from the entire day will be honored, so stop by anytime for some of the best pizza in town. This applies to carry-out or dine-in orders! With questions, please contact Nick George at nickgeorge@creighton.edu.
Events this week:
Pastoring a Multi-Cultural Church
Winter Coat and Clothing Drive
Grate Creighton Sleep Out
Ignatian Advocacy Groups
Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty Annual Fundraising Event
SBST Fundraiser at Sam and Louie’s
Courageous Voices: Viva La Causa Film and Discussion
“The Palistinian Struggle: The Untold Stories”
Nebraska Appleseed Poster Exhibit
Fall Break Service Trip Reunion
Service Trip 2012 Coordinator Applications Due
Fighting Poverty with Faith: The Oxfam Hunger Banquet
FBST Soup and Stories
Events More than One Week Away:
Immaculee’s Story of Faith, Hope, and Forgiveness
Green Bag Lunch and Learn: Green Transportation
Spring Break Service Trip Info Meetings
Wednesday, October 26
Pastoring a Multi-Cultural Church
The Center for Catholic Thought and the Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs is pleased to host the Archbishop of Santa Fe, Michael Sheehan, who will speak on “Pastoring a Multi-Cultural Church.” This event will take place from 7-8pm in the Harper Center Ballroom. For more information, please contact John O’Keefe at jokeefe@creighton.edu.
Winter Coat and Clothing Drive
St. John’s Parish is collecting winter coats, warm clothing, sweaters, and blankets for Our Lady of the Sioux Parish and Sacred Heart Parish on the Pine Ridge Reservation. A box has been placed at the main entrance to St. John’s Church for donations, as well as in the CCSJ in Harper 2067. If you have items that you would like to donate, please bring them to St. John’s or, if you would like to have someone pick them up, please call Charlene Stender at (402) 280-2973. The collection will go on through November 7th.
Thursday, October 27
Grate Creighton Sleep Out
The Grate Creighton Sleep Out is an event to promote justice and solidarity by braving the elements and experiencing the reality of homelessness. This event will be held on the KFC lawn from 9 pm until 8 am Friday morning. Please bring a cardboard box or sleeping bag, and tell your friends. This event is through the Justice and Peace Cooperative, and is sponsored by Phi Delta Theta and Legado de Compasion. With questions, please contact mirandahinnenkamp@creighton.edu.
Ignatian Advocacy Groups
Are you passionate about poverty, migration, or sustainability? Do you want to take action about those issues? Would you like to meet with state senators, council members, and other political representatives to voice your opinion about issues that you are passionate about?
The CCSJ is introducing a new advocacy opportunity that will allow students on campus to actively learn about what advocacy is and then go out and do it! Students will be invited to join an issue group, working with other students and two members of the advocacy team. The group will work together to effectively advocate for the issue they choose. After deciding the best course of action, the group will participate in direct action advocacy.
If you are interested in this opportunity, there will be an informational meeting on Thursday, October 27th at 7 pm in the CCSJ. Please send an email to williamrutt@creighton.edu if you have any questions.
Nebraskan’s Against the Death Penalty Annual Fundraising Event
This event will take place from 7-8:30pm in Creighton University’s Harper Center. Cost to attend this event ranges from $25-$150. The keynote speaker for this event is Alan Peterson, longtime Nebraska capital defense attorney who will discuss the current state of the death penalty and lethal injection litigation in Nebraska. For more information, please contact Stacy at stacy@nadp.net.
SBST Fundraiser at Sam and Louie’s!
Please come join the CCSJ at Sam and Louie’s on 24th and Cuming to help support the CCSJ Spring Break Service Trips. 20% of the revenue goes to lowering the cost for participants through scholarships. Sales from the entire day will be honored, so stop by anytime for some of the best pizza in town. This applies to carry-out or dine-in orders! With questions, please contact Nick George at nickgeorge@creighton.edu.
Courageous Voices: Viva La Causa Film and Discussion
Viva La Causa focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights- the grape strike and boycott led by Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta in the 1960′s. Viva La Causa will show how thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the most exploited people in our country- the workers who put food on our tables. After the film, a discussion will take place on how economic injustice impacts us all, and what it means to be an ally for justice. This event will take place from 7-8:30 pm in the Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs, Harper room 3006. Participants are limited to 20 people. Please RSVP to Luz Colon-Rodriguez, lrodriguez@creighton.edu. This event is sponsored by the Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs and Creighton University’s Latino Student Association.
Friday, October 28
“The Palestinian Struggle: The Untold Stories”
Much has been written about the Palestinian struggle, but the untold stories speak volumes about the injustice the Palestinians have suffered and continue to suffer. The speaker for this event is Ziad Abbas, Associate with the Middle East Children’s Alliance. This event has been organized at Creighton by the Muslim Student Association, and is sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy. This event will take place in the Skutt Student Center Ballroom from 6:30-8:30. For more information, please contact Naser Z. Alsharif at (402) 280-1857 or nalshari@creighton.edu.
Like art and social justice? Then join Nebraska Appleseed in Omaha for “Build a Stronger Nebraska Together,” a one-night pop-up poster show benefiting Nebraska Appleseed. Each poster is a design focused on one of Appleseed’s core values: community, democracy, equality, justice and opportunity. This showing will take place at the New BLK (1213 Jones St.) from 7-10pm. For more information, please contact Nicholas Swiercek at nswiercek@neappleseed.org.
Sunday, October 30
Fall Break Service Trips Reunion
For those who went on a Fall Break Service Trip this semester, you are invited to come and see your group again, share stories, watch the picture slideshow and find ways to merge your fall break experience with your experiences back in Omaha. The reunion will take place in the Skutt Student Center Ballroom from 2-4 pm. With questions, please contact Kelly Orbik at korbik@creighton.edu.
Monday, October 31
Service Trip Coordinator Applications
For those who are interested in coordinating a Service Trip for the Spring 2012 or Fall 2012 semesters, applications are due Monday, October 31 at 4pm. A complete application includes the online essays, a work sample, signing up for an interview, and payment. Interview sign ups and payment will take place in the CCSJ (Harper 2067). For more information, please contact Kelly Orbik at korbik@creighton.edu.
Fighting Poverty with Faith- the Oxfam Hunger Banquet
The Peace and Justice Cooperative will be hosting a Hunger Banquet in Lower St. John’s to raise hunger awareness. The program will be from 6-7 pm. If you would like to assist with set up, please arrive at 5:45pm. For more information, please contact Kimberly Berberich at kimberlyberberich@creighton.edu.
Thursday, November 3
FBST Soup and Stories
Join us as we hear from students from each of our 19 trips this fall. They are invited to share something that they learned on their trips- about themselves, the community they visited, or the Omaha and CU community. We have 2 sessions, with different students in each session, same format for each. Session One is from 11:30-12:30, Session Two from 12:30-1:30. Two kinds of soup will be served while it lasts. A slideshow of pictures will be playing in the background with some of the trips’ highlights. For more information, please contact Kelly Orbik at korbik@creighton.edu.
Upcoming Events:
Immaculee’s Story of Faith, Hope, and Forgiveness
(Wednesday, November 9)
Immaculee Ilibagiza is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, and will share her story at 7:30 pm in the College of St. Mary Gross Conference Center.
Green Bag Lunch and Learn: Green Transportation
(Thursday, November 17)
The subject of this Lunch and Learn event is Green Transportation, and guests for this event are Matt Martin, Executive Director of the Community Bike Project, and Daniel Lawse, Creighton graduate and Coordinator of Sustainable Practice at Metro Community College. “Green transportation” refers to sustainable ways of movement with a low impact on the environment. Walking, biking, public transit, and other forms of sustainable transportation reduce carbon emissions, promote community involvement, reduce economic costs, and encourage healthier lifestyles. Learn what members of the Omaha community are doing to make public transportation more accessible, biking more common, and state policies in support of cleaner air. Bring a simple lunch if you’d like, drinks and dessert (fresh fruit and 7-layer bars) will be provided. This event will take place from 12:30-1:30 pm in the CCSJ (Harper 2067). For more information, please contact Ken Reed-Bouley at krb@creighton.edu.
Spring Break Service Trips Info Meetings
(Monday, November 21 and Tuesday, November 22)
Are you interested in going on one of this spring’s service trips through the Creighton Center for Service and Justice. Come join us at one of our two information meetings (Monday, November 21 from 9-10pm, and Tuesday, November 22 at noon) in the CCSJ, to find out more about these trips and the application process. Please see our website (www.creighton.edu/ccsj) for more detail. Applications are due November 28th at 4 pm (all parts of the application, including forms and payment, MUST be turned in by the deadline). Scholarship applications are due Tuesday, November 22. For more information, please contact Kelly Orbik at korbik@creighton.edu.
For 11 long years, Congress has debated the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a bipartisan bill that offers a path to citizenship for young immigrants. The DREAM Act protects responsible young adults from the constant threat of deportation and removes barriers to their rights to work and education. President Obama has promised to sign the bill into law. The DREAM Act has sparked hostile opposition from an emboldened anti-immigrant movement that has fueled a spate of dangerous and xenophobic laws that trample immigrants’ rights and jeopardize the rights of minority and indigenous communities. As supporters of human rights, it’s up to us to stand strong in the face of these attacks and secure this important reform to our immigration system.
Brian Kuehner, freshman student in the College of Business, reflects on weekly service at Catholic Charities’ Juan Diego Center: