MLK: A Revolution of Values

from “Beyond Vietnam — A Time to Break Silence,” delivered 4 April 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City…

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Pray. Listen. Respond in Love

I adapted this brief video from a free download at The Work of the People. It is presented as a reflection….

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Noticias de El Salvador

Here is the story, in English, about the continuing struggle in El Salvador that I had promised. If you want to read in Spanish, you can. ( I studied at the Center in January of 2007. ) Aquí está la historia, en inglés, de la lucha permanente en El Salvador que había prometido. Si quiere [...]

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Clearer Vision: Education for Poverty Reduction

Is the relationship of access to education and reduction of poverty a direct one? It’s often posed as such. “Get a good education – get a good job.” Sounds simple, no? But, as all too many of my contemporaries have experienced, and as those entering today’s depressed market are experiencing, it simply isn’t true. For [...]

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World Blog Action Day Announces Theme || Anunica Tema

We just launched the new Blog Action Day site a few hours ago to accompany this announcement, and you can now register for Blog Action Day 09 by going to: www.blogactionday.org

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Rights of Indigenous Peoples

As I leave for Bolivia, I am entering a world that is just emerging from centuries of oppression… “Recent events in several countries in South America perpetuate the turbulent pattern of progress followed by defeat that has characterized the long struggle for equality for the indigenous peoples of the Andean region. The native populations of [...]

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News: Immigration Reform || Noticias: Reforma de Inmigración

Last January while on a discernment workshop, our men in discernment and formation we’re privileged to hear of the work of an immigration and labor reform group in New Brunswick (NJ) called New Labor. As part of a national effort, they’re creating a text message action network.

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“Shared Sickness” TB in the Ngobe Family

Our confrere, Joe Fitzgerald, CM, works among the Ngobe people in rural Panamá. Joe, while working in Panamá, is pursuing graduate studies in Global Development and Social Justice at St. John’s University. Nuestro confrere, Joe Fitzgerald, CM, trabaja con los Ngobe  en las zonas rurales de Panamá. Joe, mientras trabajaba en Panamá, está llevando a [...]

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27 Mar 2009 – UN report into Pando violence

This is a short summary of the report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) into the violence that took place in Pando, northern Bolivia, in September 2008. There has been considerable controversy surrounding reports into exactly what happened and who was responsible. The OHCHR version of events places [...]

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Democracia y cambio ¡Sí podemos!

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – A leftist television journalist has won El Salvador’s presidential election, bringing a party of former guerrillas to power for the first time since a bloody civil war and ending two decades of conservative rule. Read the rest . . .

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