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Justice Web Resources
This list is by no means comprehensive. We hope the information is helpful, but we do not endorse the organizations or their ideas. We will add to our list as we discover more websites about peace and justice that we hope are helpful.
Social Justice and Advocacy Issues
Streaming video talks from October 2005 Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education conference at John Carroll University
Affordable Housing and Homelessness
National Low Income Housing Coalition
National Coalition for the Homeless
National Alliance to End Homelessness
National Neighborhood Coalition
Africa and HIV/AIDS
Africa Faith and Justice Network
Africa Jesuit AIDS Network
Catholic Social Teaching and Jesuit Documents on Faith and Justice
The Promotion of Justice: Resources for Exploring the Jesuit and Catholic Tradition
The Promotion of Justice: Jesuit Documents about the Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice
IN AMERICAN JESUIT HIGHER EDUCATION by Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., Superior General of the Society of Jesus at COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE IN JESUIT HIGHER EDUCATION Conference,
Santa Clara University, October 6, 2000
Access to Catholic Social Justice Teaching (Bob Waldrop in OK City)
Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship
A Call to Political Responsibility from the Catholic Bishops of the United States
Summary Statement of Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship
Children
America's Promise
Children's Defense Fund
Best Buddies
Kid's Campaigns
Colombia
Center for International Policy
Consultancy on Human Rights and Displacement (Spanish)
Washington Office on Latin America
Colombian Support Network
Witness for Peace
Community Economics
National Cooperative Business Association
National Congress for Community Economic Develpment
Committee for Economic Development
Center for Community Change
Center for Policy Alternatives
Economic Policy Institute
E. F. Schumacher Society
Great Cities Institute
Community Wealth
Community and Economic Development Program
Shorebank Corporation
Woodstock Institute
The Land Institute
Co-Op America
Center for Economic and Social Justice
Foundation for Enterprise Development
Asset-Based Community Development Institute
Alliance for Responsible Trade
Ithaca Hours
Time Banks USA
Grameen Foundation, USA
Institute for Social and Economic Development
Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
Sierra Club Challenge to Sprawl
Learn about the successful boycott by the Coalition of Immokalee Farm Workers against Taco Bell. Includes a 16 minute video.
Community Organizing
Highlander Center
Industrial Areas Foundation
Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center
Jobs with Justice
Learn about the successful boycott by the Coalition of Immokalee Farm Workers against Taco Bell. Includes a 16 minute video.
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development
National Jesuit Committee on Investment Responsibility (NJCIR)
NJCIR's 2009 Annual Report - Includes the Investment actions of Creighton and of the Wisconsin Province of the Jesuits
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies)
White Dog Cafe
Rocky Mountain Institute
Institute for Community Economics (ICE)
Better Times Access to Sustainable, Simple, & Frugal Living (Bob Waldrop in OK City)
Learn about the successful boycott by the Coalition of Immokalee Farm Workers against Taco Bell. Includes a 16 minute video.
Environment
Assess your ecological footprint
Sierra Club
Sustainable Table
National Resources Defense Council
Greenpeace USA
Rocky Mountain Institute
Union of Concerned Scientists
Jesuit/Salvadoran Martyrs and the School of the Americas
Jesuit/Salvadoran Martyrs
School of the Americas Watch
J.U.S.T.I.C.E. (Jesuit University and College Students Concerned with Empowerment)
Ignacio Ellacuria, S.J.'s 1982 Commencement Address at Santa Clara University
Hunger
Bread for the World
Hungersite.com
Oxfam International
Peace and Justice Coop
Second Harvest
World Hunger Year
Food First
Food Research and Action Center
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger
Mennonite Central Committee
Presbyterian Hunger Program
United Methodist Committee on Relief
National Nonprofits
Do Something
The Corporation For National Service
Project America
City Year
Rebuilding Together
Points of Light Foundation
Peace
Pax Christi USA
Faithful Security
Pope Benedict Pleads for an end of War
US Bishops Agree to Meet with Catholic Members of Congress on Iraq War
Institute for Peace and Justice
Maryknoll: the U.S. Catholic Mission Movement
Nebraskans for Peace
U.S. Catholic Bishops call for peace and offer resources
Jesuit Provincials' letter to President Bush about Iraq
Peace Brigades International
Every Church a Peace Church
Poverty
Catholic Campaign for Human Development
Catholic Charities USA
Catholic Relief Services
Catholic Worker Movement
Center for Poverty Solutions
Catholic Relief Services Campus Connection
How Rich Are You?
"A Place at the Table: A Catholic Recommitment to Overcome Poverty and to Respect the Dignity of All God's Children" (from U.S. Catholic Bishops)
PovertyNet
An insightful presentation about poverty from CCHD: PovertyUSA
Pro-Life
Resources for life and against the death penalty from Creighton's Collaborative Ministry Office
Standing for the Unborn: Statement of the Society of Jesus in the United States on Abortion
Racism
http://www.antiracism.net/Conference for Inclusive Communities
Race: The Power of an Illusion (PBS Series)
Social Justice Training Institute
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS Series)
White Privilege Conference
Tim Wise articles
"White Privilege Shapes the U.S." by Robert Jensen
"Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America"
Bishop of Gary, Indiana’s Pastoral Letter on Racism, 2003 (PDF)
Research and Advocacy
The Jesuit Conference Office of Social and International Ministries
Omaha Archdiocesan Social Ministry
Network: National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Center of Concern
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Church World Service
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)--Division for Church in Society
8th Day Center for Justice
Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns
The Advocate - Monthly Catholic Relief Services Publication
Nebraska Appleseed Project
Service Learning and Community Based Learning
Campus Compact.org
Massachusetts Campus Compact
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
National Service Learning Clearinghouse
National Service News
Sweatshops and Labor
Creighton University Chapter of Amnesty International
United Students Against Sweatshops
Worker Rights Consortium
Fair Labor Association
Jobs with Justice
No Sweat Apparel
Educating For Justice (Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu spoke at Creighton on September 28, 2004)
Learn about the successful boycott by the Coalition of Immokalee Farm Workers against Taco Bell.