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November 2011 E-Newsletter: How do Advent, Occupy Wall Street, and the Vatican connect?

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The November JustSouth E-newsletter focuses on Occupy and a revolution of hope, the shattering of immigrant families, and the Vatican's recent statement on world financial reform.

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The November JustSouth E-Newsletter focuses on Occupy and a revolution of hope, the shattering of immigrant families, and the Vatican's recent statement on world financial reform.
 
See articles:
<a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/revolution-hope-occupy-advent-and-vatican">A Revolution of Hope: Occupy Advent and the Vatican</a>
<a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/shattering-immigrant-families-how-immigration-and-child-welfare-policies-interact">Shattering Immigrant Families: Immigration and child welfare policies collide</a>
<a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/financial-crisis-and-common-good-vatican-world-financial-reform">Financial Crisis and the Common Good: The Vatican on world financial reform</a>
 
 
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Wed, 11/30/2011 - 19:00

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Fr. Ted Arroyo, SJ, discusses Alabama's anti-immigrant law with NJN

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On November 15, Fr. Ted Arroyo, SJ, discussed Alabama's recent anti-immigrant law, considered one of the strictest in the U.S., with National Jesuit News. Click here to listen to the podcast.

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On November 15, Fr. Ted Arroyo, SJ, discussed Alabama's recent anti-immigrant law, considered one of the strictest in the U.S., with National Jesuit News. Click <a href="http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2011/11/jesuit-father-arroyo-discusses-alabamas-anti-immigration-law-in-this-months-njn-podcast/">here </a>to listen to the podcast.

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Mon, 11/21/2011 - 19:00

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October 2011 E-Newsletter focuses on stealth class warfare, Alabama's new anti-immigrant law, and the hidden border of whiteness

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The three core articles of the October JustSouth E-Newsletter focus on stealth class warfare, Alabama's new anti-immigrant law, and the effect of whiteness on immigration policy and more.

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The October JustSouth E-Newsletter focuses on the reality of "stealth class warfare" over recent decades, the new Alabama anti-immigrant law and the response of the faith community, and the historical dynamics of whiteness in relation to who is welcomed to be an American.
See articles:
<a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/king-has-no-clothes-class-warfare-ok-long-no-one-mentions-it">"The King Has No Clothes On": Is class warfare OK as long as no one mentions it?</a>
<a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/injustice-unleashed-hb-56-takes-hold-alabama">Injustice Unleashed! HB 56 takes hold in Alabama</a>
<a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/hidden-border-whiteness-and-immigration">The Hidden Border of Whiteness: How race, "illegality," and the immigration industrial complex intersect</a>
 
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Sun, 10/30/2011 - 20:00

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New JustSouth Quarterly for Fall 2011

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The new JustSouth Quarterly features articles on repealing the death penalty in Louisiana, Catholic Social Thought and the death penalty, the debt debate, and an immigrant's experience in detention.

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The new JustSouth Quarterly features articles on repealing the death penalty in Louisiana, Catholic Social Thought and the death penalty, the debt debate, and an immigrant's experience in detention.  It also includes a photo collage from the 25th annual Social Action Summer Institute held on the Loyola campus in July 2011. <a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/sites/loyno.edu.jsri/files/Fall 2011-FINAL-jsq_0.pdf">Read</a>

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Sun, 10/09/2011 - 20:00

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Catholic Theologians Call to Abolish the Death Penalty

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Over 150 Catholic theologians have signed a September 26th statement calling for the abolition of the death penalty.

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In the wake of the September 21st executions of Troy Anthony Davis in Georgia and Lawrence Brewer in Texas, over 350 Catholic theologians, including JSRI's Alex Mikulich, have called for the abolition of the death penalty in the United States. The statement can be found <a href="http://catholicmoraltheology.com/a-catholic-call-to-abolish-the-death-penalty/">here</a>.
The statement has received extensive news and media coverage.  For example:
 
> Links to the Catholic Call to Abolish the Death Penalty 
> Christian Century (Print Edition) 
> Dating God Blog 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://datinggod.org/2011/09/26/a-catholic-call-to-abolish-the-">http://datinggod.org/2011/09/26/a-catholic-call-to-abolish-the-</a> 
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> U.S. Catholic Online 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.uscatholic.org/news/2011/09/moral-theologians-issue-call-">http://www.uscatholic.org/news/2011/09/moral-theologians-issue-call-</a> 
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> Independent Catholic News: 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=18972">http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=18972</a> 
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> Commonweal Online 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=15321">http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=15321</a> 
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> America Online 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=4608">http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=4608</a> 
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> National Catholic Reporter Online 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://ncronline.org/news/justice/over-150-theologians-call-">http://ncronline.org/news/justice/over-150-theologians-call-</a> 
> abolition-death-penalty 
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> Catholic News Service Web Article/Boston Pilot Catholic News: 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=13805">http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=13805</a> 
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> Fox 10 News Online: Mobile, Alabama 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/local_news/mobile_county/spring-">http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/local_news/mobile_county/spring-</a> 
> hill-profs-join-death-penalty-protest 
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> Huffington Post 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tobias-winright/a-catholic-call-to-">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tobias-winright/a-catholic-call-to-</a> 
> abolish-the-death-penalty_b_982248.html 
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> University of San Diego “Inside USD” Online 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sandiego.edu/insideusd/?p=19705">http://www.sandiego.edu/insideusd/?p=19705</a> 
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> St. Louis University Communications Link: 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.slu.edu/x54329.xml">http://www.slu.edu/x54329.xml</a> 
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> Death Penalty Info Center 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/">http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/</a> 
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> Time Online: 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/30/articles-of-faith-will-scalia-">http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/30/articles-of-faith-will-scalia-</a> 
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> PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly: 
> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/category/headlines/">http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/category/headlines/</a>

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Sun, 09/25/2011 - 20:00

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August E-News on US Debt, Gulf South Kids, and Deportation Policies

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The August 31st JustSouth E-Newsletter discussed who will pay for the debt limit deal of late July, the findings of the 2011 KIDS COUNT report on the Gulf South states, and the Obama Administration's new policies on "prosecutorial discretion" in deportation proceedings.

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The August 31st JustSouth E-Newsletter discussed who will pay for the debt limit deal of late July, the findings of the 2011 KIDS COUNT report on the Gulf South states, and the Obama Administration's new policies on "prosecutorial discretion" in deportation proceedings. 
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<li><a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/debt-deal-heaps-heavier-burdens-most-vulnerable-americans">Who will pay for the debt deal? Debt deal heaps heavier burden on the most vulnerable Americans</a>--Mikulich</li>
<li><a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/kids-dont-count-much">Kids don't count much! 2011 KIDS COUNT reports reflect Gulf South's failure to care enough</a>--Kammer</li>
<li><a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/caution-advised-new-obama-administration-enforcement-priorities">Immigration caution advised: New Obama Administration enforcement priorities</a>--Weishar</li>
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Thu, 09/22/2011 - 20:00

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A Curious Case of Racial Amnesia

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“Is it a prerequisite for jury service that you do not object to the Confederate flag flying outside the courthouse?”1 This is a real and legal question 150 years after the Civil War.

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Dr. Alex Mikulich, Research Fellow
“Is it a prerequisite for jury service that you do not object to the Confederate flag flying outside the courthouse?”1 This is a real and legal question 150 years after the Civil War. The Louisiana Supreme Court and the Caddo Parish District Attorney seemed to assume that objection to the symbol of slavery constitutes bias on behalf of a potential juror, in the hearing of a death-penalty appeal on May 9, 2011.
As I observed the Supreme Court proceeding, this assumption of the Louisiana Supreme Court justices and of the Caddo Parish district attorney struck me with a sense of the fear that African Americans must have felt during Jim Crow. Yet this is 2011.
The questions of the Supreme Court justices called to my mind Ralph Ellison’s insight that “Americans are notoriously selective in the exercise of historical memory,” and that this selectivity demonstrates “some self-deceptive magic…for in spite of what is left out of our recorded history, our unwritten history looms as its obscure alter ego, and although repressed from our general knowledge of ourselves, it is always active in the shaping of events.”2
Since the Supreme Court nearly declared the death penalty unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia (1972), juries in Caddo Parish have voted to impose the death penalty on 16 men and one woman. Thirteen of these cases involved black defendants, and research demonstrates that the combination of a black defendant and a white victim exponentially increases the likelihood of aggressive prosecution.
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Sun, 07/17/2011 - 20:00

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Employment Slow to Rebound

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Millions of Gulf South workers face still greater challenges
Many commentators assume that, because there are economic indicators that the “great recession” has ended, workers are back to work and our national and regional troubles are at end. Far from it.

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<h2>Millions of Gulf South workers face still greater challenges</h2>
By Fred Kammer, S.J.
Many commentators assume that, because there are economic indicators that the “great recession” has ended, workers are back to work and our national and regional troubles are at end. Far from it. Nationally, we lost 8.7 million jobs in this recession, and subsequent job growth has reduced that by only a fifth, to 7 million jobs.1 Assuming national growth at the April 2011 level of 244,000 jobs a month, it would take almost two and a half years to erase that remaining job deficit and years more to reach full employment due to continuing population growth.
In the Gulf South, regional unemployment declined from 9.9 percent to 9.5 percent between February 2010 and February 2011, with the number of officially unemployed workers dropping by about 86,000. Three states have seen some unemployment reduction in the past year—Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. Louisiana and Texas unemployment continues to grow, but both have had relatively low unemployment compared to many other states. Overall, the region still has one and a half million more unemployed workers than four years ago.
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Sun, 07/17/2011 - 20:00

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A Welcoming Church

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Mississippi congregation reaches out after devastating immigration raid
On August 25, 2008, the small town of Laurel, Mississippi was the site of the largest single workplace site raid in U.S. history. In the midst of such terror, a small Catholic church became the center of solace and assistance.

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<h2>Mississippi congregation reaches out after devastating immigration raid</h2>
By Sue Weishar, Ph.D.
On August 25, 2008, the small town of Laurel, Mississippi was the site of the largest single workplace site raid in U.S. history. Early that morning hundreds of Immigration Control and Enforcement (ICE) agents swooped down on the Howard Industries plant in Laurel, which produces electric transformers, and began rounding up workers. Anyone who appeared to be of Hispanic origin was separated from other workers and escorted outside to a fenced yard. Roads around the sprawling plant were blocked and ICE helicopters hovered overhead. One resident thought there had been a terrorist attack.1 For the 595 immigrant workers that were arrested that day, there might as well have been. By evening of that long, hot summer day, 488 immigrant workers, many in handcuffs, had been transported on dozens of ICE buses to an immigrant detention center in Jena, Louisiana, four hours away—ripped apart from their families and a community they had come to think of as home. Another 107 persons, mostly women, had been deemed “humanitarian” cases2 and were released with electronic monitoring devices attached to their ankles. They were forced to wear these devices day and night for 22 months.
In the midst of such terror, a small Catholic church became the center of solace and assistance. Several Catholic agencies and the Loyola University New Orleans Law Clinic also played key roles in assisting raid victims. This article examines the Church’s response to the raid in Laurel,3 and how a small Catholic community in the middle of a deeply conservative state was able to mitigate some of the harmful effects of the raid on its immigrant members.
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Sun, 07/17/2011 - 20:00

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JSRI Director Is Moderator for International Caritas Assembly

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Father Fred Kammer, SJ, director of the Jesuit Social Research Institute, was the moderator for the week-long General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis in Rome, Italy working under the assembly theme of One Human Family, Zero Poverty.

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Father Fred Kammer, SJ, director of the Jesuit Social Research Institute, was the moderator for the week-long General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis in Rome, Italy working under the assembly theme of One Human Family, Zero Poverty.
130 Caritas member organizations from across the world sent representatives to their 19th General Assembly from May 22nd to 27th to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the confederation. During the sessions chaired by Fr. Kammer, over 300 delegates elected their officers and agreed on a four-year “strategic framework” to strengthen their service working alongside and on behalf of the poor.
Caritas Internationalis was founded in 1951 by 13 Catholic charitable organizations, including Catholic Charities USA (then known as the National Conference of Catholic Charities), to better coordinate the Church’s humanitarian work. They received support in their founding from Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini, who would become Pope Paul VI in 1963.
The Caritas confederation has grown to 165 members comprising the humanitarian and social development arms of national bishops’ conferences worldwide. Caritas members support millions of poor people in improving their own lives with programs ranging from disaster risk reduction, relief and reconstruction, peace-building and reconciliation, climate mitigation and food security, primary health care, and education.
Father Kammer was the president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA from 1992 to 2001. In that capacity he was active in the international confederation and its Vice-President for the North America regional group consisting of Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Relief Services, Development and Peace (Canada), and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
Caritas Internationalis President Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras said, “Caritas Internationalis is immensely privileged to be at the heart of the Church and her life-giving cycle of love. We are celebrating 60 years of responding through our faith with practical action to human suffering in an unjust world.
“In the second decade of the 21st century, however, we face a series of challenges that threaten to halt or even reverse that progress. Hunger is increasing, the number of humanitarian emergencies is growing, and climate change will cause further harm.
“Caritas has a vision for our world as one human family where no one dies because of poverty and injustice. For this reason, over the coming years we will strive to fulfill that vision.”
During the General Assembly members reelected Cardinal Rodriguez as Caritas President for the next four years, elected Mr. Jürg Krummenacher, former head of Caritas Switzerland, as Treasurer, and Mr. Michel Roy of Secours Catholique of France as Secretary General.
Caritas members at the General Assembly heard from Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, SDB, the Secretary of State to the Holy See, as presider at its opening Eucharist. During the week that followed the General Assembly was addressed by Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, outgoing Secretary-General Lesley-Anne Knight, and others. At the conclusion of the Assembly, members were received by Pope Benedict XVI at an audience at the Vatican on Friday, May 27th.
The General Assembly business guided by Fr. Kammer included presentations regarding the ongoing revisions of the confederation’s Statutes and Rules. This has been a multi-year process of various committees of Caritas, and for two years Fr. Kammer has been the moderator the meetings of the thirty-member Executive Committee as they have considered these revisions.

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Tue, 05/31/2011 - 20:00

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