Weekly Justice Highlights

Immigration: U.S. legislation is now on the floor in the Senate.  U.S. citizens are invited to call Senators (1.866.940.2439; NO Charges apply) urging them to protect refugee and asylum provisions from negative amendments, and to support amendments that reunite families, reform enforcement practices to be more humane and make a path to citizenship more accessible.

Challenging Unjust Systems: Urge President Obama to ensure that whistleblower Edward Snowden is treated fairly, humanely and given due process. (International Action Available)

Care of Earth: Huge sections of land is being handed over by governments to global companies for the production of palm oils without regard for environmental and social devastation.  Urge Bank of America, Citigroup and other investors to stop financing palm oil and the forest and community destruction it brings.  

In the Spirit of St. Vincent: While local communities lack money for vital services, U.S. citizens are invited to urge U.S. Representatives to vote for amendments that cut the Pentagon budget without affecting troop benefits, the bringing of Afghanistan troops home on Pentagon funding at 1.877.429.0678 (No charges apply).

Promoting Peace: Urge President Obama in an upcoming meeting with Russian President Putin to agree to bring together warring parties for urgent peace talks, commit to NOT providing weapons to any of the warring parties, and to ensure that Syrians who need aid have access to it. 

Urge politicians to pay attention to the evidence of intrusion to individual civil liberties (wiretapping Americans) that is now overwhelming.  

U.S. citizens are invited to pledge to vote against members of Congress who support gun violence in the 2014 election. 

The June issue of Stop Trafficking co-sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth is located here. 

Louisville:  On June 20 at 6 p.m. a march and rally for clean energy and healthy communities will occur.  The march begins at the Louisville International Convention Center (at 3rd and Market Streets) with the rally on the Belvedere with special guests farmer and poet Wendell Berry, activist Tim DeChristopher and musicians kRi ‘n’ hettie. 

Louisville: On July 20 from 5 to 7 p.m., It’s A Girl film will be viewed with dialogue at St. Andrew’s United Church of Christ (2608 Browns Lane).   The viewing is hosted by Revealing Sophia’s Truth, a young adult faith activist group that attended the 57^th Commission on the Status of Women at the UN in March 2013. In this film global experts and grass-roots activists tell the stories of abandoned and trafficked girls, of women who suffer extreme dowry-related violence, of brave mothers fighting to save their daughter’s lives and of other mothers who would kill for a son.