Thursday, August 29, 2013

Weekly Justice Highlights


Charity Day:  The first International Charity Day will be celebrated on September 5.  Individuals are invited to participate in the day in a variety of ways.  For more information and activities, see the September 2013 Action Alert.  (scroll down) 

Immigration:  The Central Leadership and Western Province have delivered a letter urging comprehensive immigration reform to Congressman Brett Guthrie.  LCWR invites individuals to compose opinion pieces for local newspapers, write letters to the editor, pray for legislators and express that in a note along with views around comprehensive immigration reform and join in 40 days of prayer, fasting, and advocacy for immigration reform from September 9 to October 18. 

Promoting Peace:  Urge Secretary of State Kerry and the Obama Administration to push for peace talks and find a political solution to end the bloodshed in Syria.    

Immigration: Phone U.S. Representatives (1.866.940.2439; NO charges apply) to support comprehensive immigration reform that unites families and creates a path to citizenship and oppose the SAFE Act (H.R. 2278) that would encourage racial profiling and harm community safety, expand mandatory and indefinite detention and criminalize all immigration violations.

Women and Spirit Documentary:  The documentary has been made available to all NBC stations, however, there is need to encourage local NBC stations to air the documentary.  Individuals may visit this site to locate their local station and call or write in to urge the showing of the documentary.  Please encourage others to phone in as the more requests the more likely the documentary is to be shown at the local station. 

Water: Urge the Environmental Protection Agency to protect streams and rivers from selenium toxicity that results in deformities and reproductive failure of fish and is in drinking water.  

Care of Earth: Urge President Obama to use his authority to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline as soon as possible.     
Challenge Unjust Structures:  Urge U.S. Trade Representative to keep shark fins off the chopping block while the rest of the shark is placed back into the sea to die of suffocation.   

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