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Selected Events and Items of Interest

Building a Nonviolent City - Ongoing Series
Please join other peace and justice organizations in Louisville to recognize the effects of violence in our community and within ourselves as we seek to create ways for change.  Involve your church or congregation.  Host and help organize future events.  Contact Michael Whiting,  zygobeek1@bellsouth.net.


A new organization has formed, Women's Leadership Conference for Religious Freedom 

The group is planning various events this summer  to express solidarity with women religious in the United States.
Details on these events will be posted here.
The Vatican has released a document calling for the Leadership Conference of Religious Women (LCWR) to reform and to separate themselves from justice issues.  

Contact person:
Helen Deines 
Telephone: (502) 468-0816
E-mail:  helendeines@insightbb.com


Selected Economic Justice Resources:

• Interfaith Worker Justice Interfaith Worker Justice has b  een a leader in the fight for economic and worker justice in the United States since 1996,   organizing, educating, advocating for workers and their families.  

• The Office of Social Justice and Hunger Action (OSJ) of the Christian Reformed Church in North America.  From the myriad of domestic and international economic injustices, OSJ primarily focuses on two major issues in the global economic system that have a tremendous impact on those in poverty: trade and debt/
• Do Justice
  This document emerged out of the efforts by the United Church of Christ (UCC) to gather a diverse group of persons for discussion, argument, and prayer over the issues of economics and theology 
• Poverty  USA.
  An initiative of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. CCHD is the domestic anti-poverty program of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, working to break the cycle of poverty by helping people help themselves.
• JubileeUSA
  In the spirit of the jubilee year as quoted in Leviticus, JubileeUSA believes that international debt has become a new form of slavery. Jubilee USA Network brings together people to turn a disparate reality around by active solidarity. 
• Bread for the World
  Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging our nation's decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad. 

Tell others about our work and to be added to our email list!  Go to our website at sowersofjusticenetwork.org  and click on Contact Us.

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