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Financial Crisis!
Updated Oct 3: Understand the Financial Crisis
The Center of Concern's Education for Justice project has prepared two special resources analyzing the causes and the shape of the crisis. One is a visual presentation of the major players and their interactions, The Wall Street Crisis: A Visual Overview. The other is an 8-page backgrounder, The Wall Street Crisis: Background and Causes.
For an approach to a possible solution to the crisis that is important to explore once the bailout halts the financial panic, a solution that begins with Main Street and trickles up to Wall Street, check out our policy paper on Livelihoods in a Globalizing World, part of our Election 2008 Project.
Updated Oct 6: The vision of Isaiah is the vision of a God who wants good things for all people. In a world of poverty and injustice, Isaiah paints a vision of a God who provides for everyone generously.
View the full lectionary reflection.
Updated Sep 20:
... a "moral and social wound in the soul."
The failure of the U.S. to address the reality of persistent poverty in our midst is at heart a
political question. It is an unresolved political debate among the citizens, their representatives and between he two major parties concerning the role of government relative to assisting people to move out of poverty. Candidates for all elective offices must be asked when and how they will take steps to end poverty. Download our new Election 2008 materials, Poverty and the Common Good.
political question. It is an unresolved political debate among the citizens, their representatives and between he two major parties concerning the role of government relative to assisting people to move out of poverty. Candidates for all elective offices must be asked when and how they will take steps to end poverty. Download our new Election 2008 materials, Poverty and the Common Good.
Updated Sep 19: "Feminist Political Economic Critique of U.S. Chicken Industry " - New analysis exploring how the industrial poultry production model fares in terms of
advancing the sustaining and flourishing of life and providing
sustainable livelihoods.
Updated Sep 9: The human community is intimately and intrinsically connected with the whole of Creation. We cannot thrive, nor in many cases survive, outside of healthy and diverse ecosystems. Yet the marked realities of global warming, loss of biodiversity, and the contamination and depletion of water and soil resources make it ever more clear that the path we are on is self-destructive and unsustainable...
Updated Aug 12:
The first segment of our new video series on Genocide and Forgiveness is featured at www.educationforjustice.org . A survivor tells his story and looks at the impact the genocide had on his faith.
Updated Jun 5: Mr. Aldo Caliari addresses the current food crisis in terms of commodity investment, speculation, and market structure in these remarks delivered at a recent interfaith discussion in Washington, DC.
Updated Mar 29: AAI is an open forum on the impact of agribusiness conglomerates on farmers and ranchers, labor, consumers, the environment and food security. It addresses the disproportionate impact of vertically and horizontally integrated agribusiness conglomerates on the livelihoods and food security communities around the world.
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