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Spirituality And Social Justice - Sundays In September At Channing-Murray |
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by Channing-Murray Foundation
Email: channing-murray (nospam) prairienet.org (unverified!) |
31 Aug 2003
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Sunday noon services resume at the Channing-Murray Foundation on Sept. 7, with an emphasis on spirituality and social justice. Our Unitarian-Universalist Sunday services are informal, participatory, and nonjudgmental. |
Channing-Murray Foundation
1209 W. Oregon, Urbana
(corner of Mathews and Oregon)
www.channingmurray.org
Sundays in September
Spirituality and Social Justice
12 noon
Please join us on Sundays at 12 noon as we invite people from a rich variety of religious/spiritual/philosophical perspectives and traditions to share their core beliefs, values, and faith journeys with us. Our Unitarian-Universalist Sunday services are informal, participatory, and nonjudgmental. Persons from all faith backgrounds are welcome, and you are warmly invited to enjoy refreshments and informal conversation following the service.
As UUs we strive to put into daily practice our vision for a better world as we affirm the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
Sept. 7 - War and Peace, Power and Justice After 9-11
A time to share our thoughts and hopes about the role of the U.S. in world affairs, facilitated by Jim Buell, Durl Kruse and Claire Szoke.
Sept. 14 - Dispelling Stereotypes: Letter from Sarajevo
Despite much rhetoric from the religious right, Islam and terrorism are not synonymous. Reflections on an essay by a U.S. Balkan reporter on a broad-minded, cosmopolitan branch of Islam that is alive and Well in Bosnia and elsewhere in the Muslim world.
Sept. 21 - What Peace? Ongoing Struggles for Justice in Guatemala
Meridith Kruse was in Guatemala for the past three months and will work with NISGUA, a human rights group, this fall. She will focus on the current economic and political situation in Guatemala and discuss recent activities by Guatemalan and North American groups working for justice and the end of violence in Guatemala.
Sept. 28 - In Solidarity with the People of Calavera
A delegation from St. Mary Catholic Church (Kathy Fries, Father Tom Royer and Alice Penrose) reflect on their annual spiritual, educational and medical mission to six hamlets in rural El Salvador.
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Rerum Novarum, Social Justice And Globalism From Tapart News |
by Tapart Editors
arklineart (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified) |
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09 Oct 2003
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Tapart News and Art that Talks has several articles regarding the failures of Globalism and Free Trade for the past ten years. (It is history now and not something still new)
It explores the elements of human dignity in the workday with a related overview of Rerum Novarum . Capitalism should make it easy for all participants to be good. However today with Free Trade and Globalism there is a race to the bottom. Free Trade is not really trade in the historical definition of the word but it is based on moving production and outsourcing jobs based on the cheapest labor markets down to the common denominator of wage slave labor. Workers are put on a world trading block to compete with the destitute workers of the world. They have become the real commodities being traded and not products per se. This kind of Free Trade is new to history and can be compared in many ways to the past slave trade.
Workers should make enough money to be able to pay for their basic needs, have a bit left over to help those who are less fortunate and have enough to support the common good in local environments. This calls for local value added economies that add value and liveable incomes from raw products up 5 to 7 levels to the retail level. All or most levels are required to have a good economy based on human dignity.
Some of the articles include commentaries updated from the Federal Trade Commission site by Ray Tapajna, real USA unemployment rates, America in Terror essay by Chuck Harder, worldwide radio host of For the People and the House of Cards economy by Paul Donovan from the National Steelworkers Magazine.
Other related articles cover the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history including perhaps even the Great Depression. While a statistical prosperity was reported during the Clinton years, millions lost their jobs and drifted into a silent depression. (See the Clinton Years-The American Dream Reversed artwork) President Bush followed and did nothing while starting a pre-emptive war. The great need of our times is real jobs and not wars.
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