tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86009896412926804372024-03-04T20:08:13.907-08:00Redwoods Hunger ActionNews and information on Hunger and Related IssuesPatty S. Redwoods HAAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054236884429787706noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600989641292680437.post-46254512202921622082017-12-05T09:41:00.003-08:002017-12-05T09:41:33.010-08:00Outside the Box: Rethinking Holiday Charitable Giving<div class="copy-paste-block">
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I am <a class="decorated-link" href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/irreverin/2014/11/top-ten-reasons-to-stay-home-on-black-friday/">fundamentally opposed to Black Friday shopping</a>. For many reasons, not the least of which is that it encroaches on one of my very favorite holidays–Pie For Breakfast Friday. I mean, wouldn’t you rather be home in your sweats having a slice of leftover pecan with your coffee than fighting to the death over half-priced electronics that will be broken by February?? Not even a question.<br />
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I can get down with Shop Local Saturday. I can even stomach Cyber Monday, to an extent. Yes, it contributes to the evils of capitalism, but still, I can cash in on great deals without having to load up on Xanax and venture into the holiday chaos of a big box store. So that’s a bonus.<br />
And then there’s today–Giving Tuesday. Of course, you can give<em> </em>on any day of the year. But hopefully, after nearly a solid week of binge eating and shopping, we are ready to put some intention behind sharing with others. The more I see how much waste our holidays produce–and the more I struggle, in my own house, to keep all of our <em>stuff</em> under control–the more I lean towards charitable giving as my primary means of holiday gifting. I’m not a total Grinch–my kids get stuff from Santa. Not as much as most middle class American kids, but they do okay. For the adults in my life though, I’d much rather find a cause or organization that reflects that person’s values, and honor them by supporting that work in the world. And really, how many more tchotchkes do any of us need?<br />
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Of course, once you’ve decided to go this route with your “shopping,” you’ve got to find the right causes to support. There’s a great article making the rounds about <a class="decorated-link" href="https://baptistnews.com/article/stuffing-shoe-boxes-for-the-worlds-poor-maybe-you-should-reconsider/#.WhxuaVWnHcv">Operation Christmas Child</a>— a popular holiday effort that many families and churches make part of their annual tradition. Through this ministry, children in the developing world receive shoe boxes filled with small gifts and toys. It sounds nice enough. But it is culturally obtuse. It ignores the real lives of these children, and overlooks the reality of their daily needs. For the cost of shipping the cheap plastic stuff, you could stretch your dollars–and your holiday cheer–a whole lot farther, giving to organizations that support sustainable development in the regions that need it most. Not to mention, you could avoid the environmental hazard of <em>thousands </em>of shoe boxes headed, ultimately, for a landfill.<br />
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OCC is just one example of how charity can hurt. Many of the organizations and efforts that we support have similar pitfalls, whether they serve the urban inner city or the rural poor. To truly do good in the world, efforts must align with people’s actual lives and context; connect with the local culture; and operate at a relational level that seeks to understand what services would truly transform the life of a community.<br />
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So, where to give? Find organizations that are credible, that do good work, and have low overhead to make the most of your giving. You also want to support efforts that work <em>with </em>people, and have a physical presence in the areas they serve–and are not just handing out band-aids (literal and figurative) for nice Christmas photo opps. Here are some ideas. Find the one that fits you– and the person you want to gift this season–and go nuts. Spiced, holiday nuts of course.<br />
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<em><strong>Think Globally: </strong></em><br />
If you truly want to help children in poverty, think less plastic slinky, more clean water and vaccinations. These are the best of the best.<br />
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<a class="decorated-link" href="http://www.foodsresourcebank.org/">Foods Resource Bank</a>, reducing world hunger through sustainable agriculture and development.<br />
<a class="decorated-link" href="https://cwsglobal.org/">Church World Service</a>, empowers communities to take ownership of their own future through sustainable solutions.<br />
<a class="decorated-link" href="http://www.weekofcompassion.org/mission/">Week of Compassion</a>, the relief, refugee and development mission fund of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)<br />
<a class="decorated-link" href="https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/about-oxfam/">Oxfam</a>, working to end global poverty by addressing root causes and creating sustainable solutions.<br />
<a class="decorated-link" href="http://www.bread.org/about">Bread for the World</a>, a Christian collective working to end hunger, primarily through political action; changing policies and conditions that allow poverty to persist, and providing opportunity both at home and abroad.<br />
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If you want to hand the recipient something tangible to symbolize the gift you made in their honor, you could give them a nice loaf of bread with a pretty bow, with a card about the organization you chose–and a note telling them why you picked it just for them.<br />
<em><strong>Act Locally:</strong> </em><br />
-Giving to an arts lover? Support your <strong><a class="decorated-link" href="http://www.kcsymphony.org/">local symphony</a> </strong>or youth theater program<strong>. </strong>If you’re a big spender, you could stick some performance tickets in a nice card, telling the person that you gave in their honor.<br />
-Most <strong>local libraries</strong> have literacy programs that put a lot of life back into the community for children, youth, and adults with special needs. You could put a note about the program in a gently-used book, and gift it to the person you recognized with your donation.<br />
-Channel your inner Leslie Knope and gift a local <strong>Parks and Recreation program</strong>. You might be able to put a friend or family member’s name on a tree or a bench or something. So that’s festive.<br />
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<em><strong>For the Nature Lover/Activist: </strong></em><br />
-Want to make a political statement AND save the world? Give the gift of preservation. Our natural resources are under threat right now by an administration of climate-change deniers. Resist! Make a gift to the <a class="decorated-link" href="https://www.nationalparks.org/">National Parks Foundation</a> or the <a class="decorated-link" href="https://www.sierraclub.org/">Sierra Club</a>. It’s like LITERALLY giving someone a Christmas tree… but what you’re really giving them is the assurance that there will BE trees in the future. Attach a note to a pretty nature-themed ornament, and you are all set.<br />
<strong><em>Other Ideas: </em></strong><br />
-A gift supporting <a class="decorated-link" href="https://www.npr.org/">Public Radio</a> or <a class="decorated-link" href="http://www.pbs.org/">Public Television</a> is ALWAYS in season. And with all the buzz about net neutrality right now, protecting a truly free press is more important than ever. Send your note or card in a fun NPR or PBS mug with a packet of gourmet coffee or hot chocolate.<br />
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-Or, you can always gift someone’s Alma Mater in their honor. Send the note with some home team swag, like a hat or scarf.<br />
The staggering truth is that Americans will spend more than <strong>$400 BILLION</strong> on retail this Christmas. What if we could give even a 10-percent tithe of that to causes that have a true impact in our communities? Or better yet–what if we cut our retail spending in half, and gave the remainder away in the true spirit of the season?<br />
Hopefully this has sparked some creative ideas about gifts that give back to the world, while also letting your loved ones know that they matter to you– and that you chose something especially meaningful just for them. I would love to hear what you are doing for friends and family this season, and how you are letting them know about it.<br />
Happy Giving Tuesday to all–and to all a good (consumerism-free) night.<br />
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left us, but thankfully, God is at our side, and so is the Food Bank.”<br />
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<span style="color: #504a33; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 175%; margin: 0px;">Imagine, at just eleven years old, losing the only parent
you ever knew and suddenly needing to be taken in by your eighty-year-old
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<span style="color: #504a33; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 175%; margin: 0px;">That’s exactly what happened to Gabriel and his sister
Jessica*. And as they faced so much loss, the last thing they needed was
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<strong><span style="color: #504a33; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 175%; margin: 0px;">Luckily his grandmother Remedios, who—despite living on a
fixed income—was determined to be strong with the help of the Food Bank:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #504a33; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 175%; margin: 0px;">Remedios says, “I have to be positive. It’s hard, but I
have to take it one day at a time. My daughter left us, but thankfully,
God is at our side, and so is the Food Bank.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #504a33; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 175%; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QR%2Br3mE%2BvOS83YOuGUrWjyfMbytOdkGv" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><b><span style="color: #67ac47; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Please
make a gift today to make sure we can be there for families and children
in our community.</span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #504a33; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 175%; margin: 0px;">But with our recent Missing Meals report showing that most
low to middle income families cannot pay for 14% of their meals—even
after government and nonprofit assistance — <strong><span style="font-family: "open sans"; margin: 0px;">we still need your help to make sure kids
don’t face hunger in our community.</span></strong> <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PFAsJE4YQkZ4do0zWxqGJCfMbytOdkGv" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><b><span style="color: #67ac47; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Will you
make a gift now to make sure the food bank can continue to be there for
them?</span></b></a></span></div>
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Second deadly fire in months brings renewed attention to housing issues</h3>
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LOUISVILLE – Members of the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance National Response Team recently returned from Oakland, California, responding to the latest apartment fire that left four people dead and more than 100 residents displaced. The four-alarm blaze broke out in the three-story, 43-unit building on March 27.<br />
Witnesses say as many as 15 people had to be rescued as the smoke and flames grew. Bed sheets could be seen hanging from some windows as people found ways to escape the blaze. The fire is believed to have started on the second floor and authorities say the 122-year-old building had been the subject of a number of code enforcement complaints.<br />
“It’s an acute manifestation of a larger problem which is often the case with disasters. There is a housing shortage and now there are over 100 people in need of housing in the midst of a community with a severe housing problem,” said Mike Bullard, who visited the community as part of the PDA response team. “The gentrification in the community has added to the cost of housing so that large communities of homeless people are living in tents or on the streets under bypasses and awnings.”<br />
Every urban community will have homeless, says Bullard, but many of these people are employed and can’t pay the $3,000 a month rent on a simple apartment.<br />
“You have to have the first and last month’s rent and a deposit which adds up close to $10,000 for a basic apartment,” he said. “You have employed, hardworking people who would be fine in any other community, but they live there and are stuck. Add the disabled to that and you have a huge homeless population.”<br />
The exact number of displaced residents isn’t known. Authorities say a number of people who were living in the building were “the friend of a friend.”<br />
Bullard credits faith leaders for the work they have been doing for residents in the area, even before the fire.<br />
“We were just taken to school by the incredible leadership in the community and among the pastors,” he said. “We had a good learning experience, watching faith leaders work through this difficult situation and we were blessed and inspired by what we saw from them.”<br />
The Red Cross set up a shelter immediately after the fire and many of the churches provided supplies. The Rev. Debra Avery is pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Oakland, which served as shelter for many of the displaced residents on the day of the fire.<br />
“They’re frustrated and sad. These are people who are the marginalized of the marginalized,” she said. “This was a homeless transitional property and many of the residents are doing their best to make it under trying conditions. The resources they had were slim and the little they had was completely lost in the fire.”<br />
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance has provided a $7,500 grant to the Presbytery of San Francisco to be used in its ministry efforts for the area.<br />
Avery is involved with community-based organizing and says they’re trying to pull together a housing consortium among the faith-based groups.<br />
“It’s a very complicated situation and there are multiple issues at play including generational poverty, racism, disabled and senior citizens, everything,” said Avery.<br />
Bullard says it’s too early to say what the long-term commitment may be but does see possible areas of collaboration around compassion fatigue.<br />
“We need to be a ministry of presence and show that as Presbyterians, we care,” said Bullard. “We walk beside the people, we don’t take over their burden but pass on the knowledge of others that have been through similar disasters and help them that way.”<br />
“I feel pretty resilient, but I’m worried about some of the pastors involved in relief efforts because most of us have limited staff,” said Avery. “We all have small congregations and so many of these pastors serve part-time, holding down full-time jobs elsewhere. This is a big job and it’s the small churches that are taking the lead on this.”<br />
The recent fire comes four months after the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland left 36 people dead. That fire broke out after a dance party at the warehouse that had been converted into living and community space.<br />
“Many of the same people who responded to the Ghost Ship fire have once again responded to the needs of survivors in this fire,” said Jim Kirk, PDA’s associate for national disaster response. “The impact of trauma and stress is cumulative and part of what PDA can offer is a ministry of presence to those who are responding.”<br />
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week and a half away, and it is shaping up to be a record year for
attendance and participation in our Congressional Advocacy Day! We
look forward to a great event focused on the theme "</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #403f42; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Confronting
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Militarism</span></strong><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">." </span></div>
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new FaceBook Live Streaming, download the new EAD APP, and plan to
join participants in Washington in prayer,
and call-in to Congress with EAD's Congressional Ask.
An action alert with a 1-800 number will be sent next week.
Download the APP by clicking the button below for all needed
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<span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As Christians, we are about to embark this evening for
Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter prayers,
worship, reflection, public and family celebration and for some,
fasting. EAD 2017 will continue those traditions the following weekend
as we continue our Easter Time witness to the Good News of
Christ! At EAD, we have planned two new and special Prayer
Vigil opportunities for participants to engage and deepen and
strengthen our personal and public witness:</span></div>
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night. Participants will gather in the foyer
of Lincoln Hall at the DoubleTree Hotel just following
the closing plenary at 5:30pm. Join us as we lift up prayers
for a shift in U.S. policy away from unrestrained militarism.</span></div>
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advocates for a prayer vigil in front of the United Methodist
Building (First St. and Maryland Avenue NE, next to The Supreme
Court) followed by a faith walk to and a public witness in the atrium
of the Senate Hart Building (Constitution Avenue, across the street
from the United Methodist Building). We will pray and read
scripture at both locations. For those who are able and feel
called, EAD participants are invited to fast from Sunrise to Sundown
during Monday's Lobby Day. Some are planning on direct
action at The Hart Building. No one is obligated to engage in
direct action and our collective witness will not be as
such. If any participant feels called to join in direct
action, s/he must attend a meeting on Sunday evening
at 8:00 pm at the DoubleTree Hotel. Meeting room will be
announced at EAD.</span></div>
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When Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. posed the question, “Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community?” in his book of the same title 50 years ago, no one could have imagined that we would still be wrestling with this question today. In that same year on April 4, 1967, a year to the day before Dr. King was assassinated, he spoke at Riverside Church in New York addressing the intersectionality of “<em>the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism”</em> as the principal challenges of the time. Five decades later, Dr. King’s prophetic insights and challenges – and the stark choice between chaos and community — are incredibly current.<br />
Sadly, we have witnessed chaos in many of our communities, challenging us as people of faith to speak and act boldly and courageously to end racism, materialism and militarism.<br />
Over the past year, our nation has experienced a divisive election in which racism, xenophobia, and religious bigotry were a constant. We still find <em>racism</em> an open wound in our nation, resulting in the disproportionate killing of black and brown bodies and stunting their lives through unjust economic and social structures. The militarization of our police is a reflection not only of broken communal values, but also a lopsided foreign policy that spends drastically more on defense than diplomacy or development. <em>Militarism</em> continues to be the United States’ overriding approach to resolving conflict, despite studies that show the effectiveness of peacebuilding and the power of non-violence. Extreme <em>materialism</em> threatens our souls and our very planet, as prosperity narratives and unchecked capitalism spreads despite overwhelming scientific evidence that our current path is unstainable. As in Dr. King’s time, we teeter precariously between chaos and community.<br />
A new time calls for new strategies. The dynamic movement of people of faith and conscience today to challenge these “giant triplets” of chaos is taking different forms from those of the civil rights era. But the same courage and commitment to bring about national and social transformation animates the new generation of activists. This year’s EAD gathering will address racism/white privilege, economic injustice and militarization at home and abroad.<br />
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<strong>World Water Day, on 22 March every year, is about taking action to tackle the water crisis. Today, 1.8 billion people use a source of drinking water contaminated with faeces, putting them at risk of contracting cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio.</strong></div>
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The Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2015, include a target to ensure everyone has access to safe water by 2030, making water a key issue in the fight to eradicate extreme poverty.<br />
In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly officially designated March 22 as World Water Day. World Water Day is coordinated by UN-Water in collaboration with governments and partners.<br />
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Wherever you are and whatever you do on March 22, make it about water.</div>
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<strong></strong><strong>Get inspired</strong><br />Dive into great stories and immerse yourself in knowledge about wastewater!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>From Presbyterian Office of Public Witness 3/10/17</b><a href="http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/washington/"><img alt="Office of Public Witness" src="https://www.presbyterianmission.org/site_media/media/uploads/washington/images/badge-washington.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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three years ago. It is estimated that by July nearly 5.5 million
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famine in South Sudan is a direct result of the civil war and is a man made
famine. The multi-sided conflict with the collapse of rule-of-law and
destruction and looting in large portions of the country has produced this food
crisis. The US State department recently issued a <a data-mce-href="https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/02/267757.htm" href="http://capwiz.com/pcusa/utr/1/EXHIZPKNLD/AGQKZPKZRQ/11431374701"><span style="color: blue;">statement</span></a> on
the famine saying that, “This crisis is man-made, the direct consequence of a
conflict prolonged by South Sudanese leaders who are unwilling to put aside
political ambitions for the good of their people.”</span></span></div>
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order to reduce the threat of famine, the international community must do more
to bring political stability to the war-torn country. Please urge your
members of congress and the administration to work with the international
community to put <a data-mce-href="http://www.enoughproject.org/reports/weapons-mass-corruption-how-corruption-south-sudan%E2%80%99s-military-undermines-world%E2%80%99s-newest-coun" href="http://capwiz.com/pcusa/utr/1/EXHIZPKNLD/NKQYZPKZRR/11431374701"><span style="color: blue;">increased
pressure</span></a> on the armed actors to halt the conflict, provide
humanitarian access, and bring stability back to South Sudan. The longer
the conflict drags on, the harder it will be to stop.</span></span></div>
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would like to give funds to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and its work in
South Sudan please click <a data-mce-href="https://pma.pcusa.org/donate/make-a-gift/gift-info/DR000042/" href="http://capwiz.com/pcusa/utr/1/EXHIZPKNLD/DLUUZPKZRT/11431374701"><span style="color: blue;">here.</span></a> Funds
will go toward humanitarian assistance and/or trauma care for families affected
by the conflict and civil strife.</span></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Patty S. Redwoods HAAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054236884429787706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600989641292680437.post-44664377975744385972017-02-02T10:55:00.002-08:002017-02-02T10:55:11.062-08:00Marin Hunger Walk Sunday March 12, 2017Save the Date: Sunday, March 12, 2017<br />
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JOIN THE <span style="background-color: orange;">20TH ANNUAL MARIN CROP HUNGER WALK</span>,<br />
to be held at the First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael<br />
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<a href="http://www.crophungerwalk.org/sanrafaelca."> www.crophungerwalk.org/sanrafaelca. </a><br />
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This annual event is co-sponsored locally by the Marin Interfaith Council and brings together teams and individuals from many faith traditions to raise funds to fight hunger and poverty both locally and throughout the world. For more information about the walk or to register an individual or a team to participate in the walk, go to www.crophungerwalk.org/sanrafaelca. For information on sponsorship opportunities or to join the planning committee, contact Leslie Purdy at <span style="background-color: blue; color: #cfe2f3;">rlpurdy869@gmail.com</span>. Patty S. Redwoods HAAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054236884429787706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600989641292680437.post-51588323968765618332017-01-24T13:05:00.001-08:002017-01-24T13:05:46.166-08:00Haitian Metal Art from Global Crafts<div>
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the order for more. This will bring our collection to more than 200
designs. We have been carrying these pieces since 2005, adding new
designs each year. Wall art is one of those lines that just continues
to sell - last year alone we sold over 13,000 pieces. <br />
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The line is perfect for those hard-to-fill spaces on your walls and
requires zero floor or shelf space. For us this is perhaps one of the
most rewarding product lines we sell as we have watched the artisans
succeed and with it show great humility and thanks for the work that
your orders provide. <br />
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Yes, our Closeout sale is still on and yes there are few pieces of
Metal Art in the closeout section. The prices on these items are
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<span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Six birds within the branches of a tree are depicted
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<span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">This 24 inch painted Haitian metal wall art features a
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<span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">This 24 inch Haitian metal wall art features an Angel
with a trumpet and the moon. The piece is hand painted, hand cut and
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<span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://www.globalcrafts.org/and-its-on-to-2017/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2016-12-29T13:04:33+00:00">December 29, 2016</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.globalcrafts.org/author/renice/">Renice Jones</a></span></span> </div>
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<img alt="2017-peace-calendar" class="size-full wp-image-1238 alignleft" height="495" src="https://www.globalcrafts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-Peace-Calendar-e1482785993392.jpg" width="300" />This year is the first in a long while that January is a big question mark for me. I’m trying to be positive but I have no idea what US legislation and laws are going to change my life or others I care about or what basic human rights are going to be at risk. I know I’m not alone out there. I find myself donating money to causes that I feel are constantly in need with aplomb. I’m signing petitions left and right and have my national representatives on speed dial.<br />
But my last-week-of-December traditions must go on. Every year I buy a new wall calendar with big write-in boxes. I then add the semi-monthly payroll dates for the whole year (our staff likes that) and wait until January 1st to hang it. I’ve been looking for a calendar that denotes events that mean something to me and not just those designated by Hallmark. <a href="https://www.culturalsurvival.org/" target="_blank">Cultural Survival </a>used to produce a small calendar that I could use to transfer these noteworthy events to a bigger <a href="https://shop.nationalgeographic.com/search;jsessionid=Gl884kqaQdxy--fLCj0FlDPM1MJvdHx7YyiAzv8dOXttENLT5GBy!861314364?_dyncharset=UTF-8&Dy=1&Nty=1&siteScope=ok&_D%3AsiteScope=+&siteIds=ngstore&_D%3AsiteIds=+&Ntt=calendar&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchall&Nr=OR%28product.isSearchable%3A1%29&search=Search&_DARGS=%2Fcartridges%2FSearchBox%2FSearchBox.jsp" target="_blank">National Geographic calendar </a>but they stopped making the calendars for some reason. I even emailed them suggesting they make some kind of electronic one but I didn’t hear back.<br />
This year I stumbled upon the 2017 Peace Calendar put out by the <a href="https://www.syracuseculturalworkers.com/" target="_blank">Syracuse Cultural Workers</a>. There were no dimensions of the calendar but I took the chance that for $15.95, I’d be getting a wall calendar with the necessary write-in blocks. And I was not disappointed. In addition to calling out dates that support the principles of fair trade like Equal Pay Day (April 12th) and World Water Day (March 22nd), it also acknowledges World Fair Trade Day (May 13th this year). I will report to them that they should update the associated website from www.ifat.org which is now a dead link but baby steps.<br />
And while I do in my heart like the concept of a day that “protests earth-destroying consumerism” called Buy Nothing Day that coincides with Black Friday, I do run a business that needs people to buy stuff. I guess the Syracuse Cultural Workers, whose mission “<i>is to help create a culture that honors diversity and celebrates community; that inspires and nurtures justice, equality and freedom; that respects our fragile Earth and all its beings; that encourages and supports all forms of creative expression” </i>yet relies on the purchases of calendars, tees, buttons, patches, etc. probably agree with me. Maybe we can change Buy Nothing Day to Only Buy Products That Do Good Day. With all of the online specials throughout the holiday season, it seems that Black Friday has lost some of its magic as the start of holiday shopping so why not make it a day with meaning? Let’s replace the frenzy with thoughtfulness and start the holiday gift season on a positive note. The day after they can buy their wall-size TVs.<br />
I took the liberty of creating a <a href="https://www.globalcrafts.org/wp-content/uploads/Event-Calendar-2017.pdf" target="_blank">printable calendar </a>with a few of the notable days from my 2017 Peace Calendar that we’ll be promoting in our retail store and you are welcome to do as well. Wishing all of you a sane, caring, non-violent, healthy, and most important, peaceful 2017. Hope to see some of you in Washington DC on January 21st! <br />
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<span class="fn">Renice co-founded Global Crafts in 2002 with her husband Kevin Ward after settling in Florida after 3 years in Kenya as a Peace Corps volunteer. Creating a Fair Trade business that married her passion for artisan-made pieces and years of experience in IT finally enabled Renice to find her perfect career.</span></div>
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All over the world, small farmers are being forced off their land to make way for corporate agriculture, writes GRAIN - and it's justified by the need to 'feed the world'. But it's the small farmers that are the most productive, and the more their land is grabbed, the more global hunger increases. We must give them their land back!</h2>
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The data show that the concentration of farmland in fewer and fewer hands is directly related to the increasing number of people going hungry every day.</div>
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The United Nations declared 2014 as the <a href="http://www.fao.org/family-farming-2014/en/" target="_blank">International Year of Family Farming</a>. As part of the celebrations, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) released its annual '<em><a href="http://www.fao.org/publications/sofa/2014/en/" target="_blank">State of Food and Agriculture</a></em>', which this year is dedicated to family farming.<br />
Family farmers, FAO say, manage 70-80% of the world's farmland and produce 80% of the world's food.<br />
But on the ground - whether in Kenya, Brazil, China or Spain - rural people are being marginalised and threatened, displaced, beaten and even killed by a variety of powerful actors who want their land.<br />
A recent <a href="http://www.grain.org/e/4929" target="_blank">comprehensive survey</a> by GRAIN, examining data from around the world, finds that while small farmers feed the world, they are doing so with just 24% of the world's farmland - or 17% if you leave out China and India. GRAIN's report also shows that this meagre share is shrinking fast.<br />
How, then, can FAO claim that family farms occupy 70 to 80% of the world's farmland? In the same report, FAO claims that only 1% of all farms in the world are larger than 50 hectares, and that these few farms control 65% of the world's farmland, a figure much more in line with GRAIN's findings.<br />
<strong>Just what is a 'family farm'</strong><br />
The confusion stems from the way FAO deal with the concept of family farming, which they roughly define as any farm managed by an individual or a household. (They admit there is no precise definition. Various countries, like Mali, have their own.)<br />
Thus, a huge industrial soya bean farm in rural Argentina, whose family owners live in Buenos Aires, is included in FAO's count of 'family farms'.<br />
What about sprawling Hacienda Luisita, owned by the powerful Cojuanco family in the Philippines and epicentre of the country's battle for agrarian reform since decades. Is that a family farm?<br />
Looking at ownership to determine what is and is not a family farm masks all the inequities, injustices and struggles that peasants and other small scale food producers across the world are mired in.<br />
It allows FAO to paint a rosy picture and conveniently ignore perhaps the most crucial factor affecting the capacity of small farmers to produce food: lack of access to land. Instead, the FAO focuses its message on how family farmers should innovate and be more productive.<br />
<strong>Small farmers are ever more squeezed in</strong><br />
Small food producers' access to land is shrinking due a range of forces. One is that because of population pressure, farms are getting divided up amongst family members. Another is the vertiginous expansion of monoculture plantations.<br />
In the last 50 years, a staggering 140 million hectares - the size of almost all the farmland in India - has been taken over by four industrial crops: soya bean, oil palm, rapeseed and sugar cane. And this trend is accelerating.<br />
In the next few decades, experts predict that the global area planted to oil palm will<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901108001196" target="_blank"> double</a>, while the soybean area will grow by <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/ap106e/ap106e.pdf" target="_blank">a third</a>. These crops don't feed people. They are grown to feed the agro-industrial complex.<br />
Other pressures pushing small food producers off their land include the runaway plague of large-scale land grabs by corporate interests. In the last few years alone, according to the World Bank, some 60 million hectares of fertile farmland have been leased, on a long-term basis, to foreign investors and local elites, mostly in the global South.<br />
While some of this is for energy production, a big part of it is to produce food commodities for the global market, instead of family farming.<br />
<strong>Small is beautiful - and productive</strong><br />
The paradox, however, and one of the reasons why despite having so little land, small producers are feeding the planet, is that small farms are often more productive than large ones.<br />
If the yields achieved by Kenya's small farmers were matched by the country's large-scale operations, the country's agricultural output would double. In Central America, the region's food production would triple. If Russia's big farms were as productive as its small ones, output would increase by a factor of six.<br />
Another reason why small farms are the feeding the planet is because they prioritise food production. They tend to focus on local and national markets and their own families. In fact, much of what they produce doesn't enter into trade statistics - but it does reach those who need it most: the rural and urban poor.<br />
If the current processes of land concentration continue, then no matter how hard-working, efficient and productive they are, small farmers will simply not be able to carry on.<br />
The data show that the concentration of farmland in fewer and fewer hands is directly related to the increasing number of people going hungry every day.<br />
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/nmxyf87" target="_blank">According to one UN study</a>, active policies supporting small producers and agro-ecological farming methods could double global food production in a decade and enable small farmers to continue to produce and utilise biodiversity, maintain ecosystems and local economies, while multiplying and strengthening meaningful work opportunities and social cohesion in rural areas.<br />
Agrarian reforms can and should be the springboard to moving in this direction.<br />
<strong>To double global food production, we must support the small farmers</strong><br />
Experts and development agencies are constantly saying that we need to double food production in the coming decades. To achieve that, they usually recommend a combination of trade and investment liberalisation plus new technologies.<br />
But this will only empower corporate interests and create more inequality. The real solution is to turn control and resources over to small producers themselves and enact agricultural policies to support them.<br />
The message is clear. We need to urgently put land back in the hands of small farmers and make the struggle for genuine and comprehensive agrarian reform central to the fight for better food systems worldwide.<br />
FAO's lip service to family farming just confuses the matter and avoids putting the real issues on the table.<br />
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<em><strong>This opinion piece</strong> by <a href="http://www.grain.org/article/entries/5072-telling-family-farming-fairy-tales" target="_blank">GRAIN</a> was first published by <a href="http://www.trust.org/item/20141106222038-eho49" target="_blank">Reuters</a>.</em></span><br />
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Climate Fund, protecting the Arctic Refuge, teaching the connection
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Hi
Patty,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Spring is
in full swing, and the creation justice community is bustling with
activity. Here's some of what you will find in the <a href="http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=u1FsNjwqrlG%2FI5kbL8nrUWlb%2Fcwl6Eh5"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">Spring
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">NEWS</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* Sacred Duty to Curb Methane Waste</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* Prayers, paper lanterns at United Methodist General
Conference climate vigil</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* 121 Faith Organizations Urge Congress to Invest 750
million in Green Climate Fund</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* Take Action to support the Green Climate Fund</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* Creation Justice Ministries is seeking people of faith
willing to offer peaceful presence upcoming hearings on the federal coal
program</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* Support Alaska Native communities' struggle to defend
their homeland: The Arctic Refuge</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">* Get involved in the Bears Ears National Monument
proposal </span></div>
<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">EVENTS</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* Protecting God's Creatures: Teleconference, June 5th at
4:00pm ET</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* Creating a Climate for Change Conference at the Florence
Civic Center in South Carolina on June 9, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* The Powerful Faith-Based Organizing for Climate Justice
Conference at Pendle Hill, Pennsylvania on June 16th-19th</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* Faith Network Gathering for an Inclusive Economy, July 8th
in Buffalo, NY</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* Endangered Species round table in: Denver, CO (July 17th)
and St. Louis, MO (July 31st)</span></div>
<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">RESOURCES</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* Food & Climate crisis info graphic from the
Presbyterian Hunger Program</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* Catechism Video Series featuring scientist in the
Episcopal Church</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* Solar Webinar by Presbyterian churches</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">* Presbyterian Hunger Program newsletter; perspectives on
trade, ecowomanism and more!</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">As always, we
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> In hope,</span><br />
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Shantha Ready Alonso</span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Patty S. Redwoods HAAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054236884429787706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600989641292680437.post-32363043663198354202016-05-27T18:59:00.000-07:002016-05-27T18:59:01.294-07:00Sleepy Hollow Presbyterian Church Featured in Presbyterian News<h2>
California church embraces organic gardening and protecting the environment</h2>
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Congregation mobilized to reduce its carbon footprint</div>
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May 20, 2016</div>
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Youth from the Sleepy Hollow Presbyterian Church prepare gardens for planting. <span class="credit"> —Ethan Russell</span></div>
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The rolling hills and beautiful valleys of Marin County, California provide the perfect backdrop for <a href="http://www.sleepyhollowchurch.org/wp/">Sleepy Hollow Presbyterian Church</a>. One look at this majestic landscape and it doesn’t take much to inspire people to protect and nurture it.<br />
With growing concern about the environment, drought and children living in poverty, the Sleepy Hollow congregation was motivated to form an environmental “Green Team” in 2014 and they didn’t have to go very far to determine where to start.<br />
“We have this huge backyard that God has given us and we’ve got gardeners and a commitment to feeding the hungry, so where do we go with all of this?” asked the Rev. Beverly Brewster, pastor. “We have a lot of garden people in our congregation and they looked at this sunny backyard and had a vision.”<br />
Working and collaborating with a <a href="https://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/hunger/">Presbyterian Hunger Program</a> grant partner, the <a href="http://www.interfaithfood.org/">Interfaith Sustainable Food Collaborative</a>, church members developed a work plan to develop an organic “justice” garden. [Garden was also partially funded by Cents-Ability grants from the Redwoods Presbytery, Hunger Task Force.]<br />
“This is a well-to-do suburban neighborhood. People have big yards and a lot of them have their own gardens,” said Brewster. “We decided that a community garden wasn’t the need here. The need was to grow food for people who do not get good organic, fresh vegetables.”<br />
After two successful growing seasons, Brewster says God has blessed their garden with huge tomatoes.<br />
“It’s been interesting because many of the neighbors have grown tomatoes but are amazed at how large ours have been,” she said. “We have been so blessed and have actually grown 1,000 pounds of organic tomatoes the past two seasons.”<br />
The vegetables grown in the garden are given to low income senior citizens and children connected with the food bank or are sold at a church farm stand. The money raised then goes back into the garden.<br />
Sleepy Hollow has developed a relationship with a nearby school that serves under-privileged children who are more than happy to receive the garden’s bounty.<br />
“Approximately 93 percent of these children live well below the poverty line,” said Brewster. “When we take our vegetables to the school, the children pick up the tomatoes and eat them like candy. It is such a treat for them and it is amazing to see how their faces brighten up.”<br />
But Sleepy Hollow is about more than growing organic vegetables. The church is involved with water conservation, securing a grant to put in a rainwater catchment tank to support the gardening efforts. The congregation is also in the process of raising funds for solar panels.<br />
“We want to reduce our carbon footprint and be a green church,” said Brewster. “We also hope to eventually put in an electric car charging station.”<br />
“Right relationships with God, others and the earth—we all want it, we crave it, but sometimes we don’t know where to start,” said Ruth Farrell, coordinator of the Presbyterian Hunger Program. “Sleepy Hollow Presbyterian’s story of their mission in their context is encouragement to congregations everywhere. I love that this congregation channels God’s gifts of rain, sun and dirt into something that benefits others, and in so doing, knows the blessing of caring for God’s creation and fellow creatures. Connecting to kids who lack access to healthy food builds friendships with kids and schools which leads to fighting hunger and poverty with all of our tools—meeting needs, advocacy for healthy school lunches as well as programs to help parents provide for their kids, and reducing our own carbon footprint that helps us live in ‘right’ relationships which will end hunger and poverty and lead to all kinds of abundance.”<br />
Brewster says the combined projects and planning have energized the church.<br />
“This has been fantastic. The people love seeing something come out of nothing and it has been an inspiration to be a part of it,” she said. “People are so joyful. It has been revitalizing for the church.”<br />
For more information about how your church can get involved in food justice or environmental issues, visit the <a href="http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/hunger/">Presbyterian Hunger Program web page</a>.</div>
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Presbyterian Mission Agency staff adds support for Wendy’s boycott</h1>
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Coalition of faith groups, labor organizations protest at shareholder’s meeting</h3>
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Tony De La Rosa, interim executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, joins the May 26, 2016 protest advocating a boycott of Wendy’s Corporation. Photo by Gregg Brekke</div>
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Tony De La Rosa, interim executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, joined more than 60 demonstrators gathered at the headquarters of Wendy’s Corporation in Dublin, Ohio to protest and urge the company to adopt <a href="http://www.fairfoodprogram.org/" target="_blank">Fair Food Program</a> practices for its purchasing of tomatoes and other produce. The protest, organized by the <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/" target="_blank">Coalition of Immokalee Workers</a> (CIW), was held May 26, 2016 to coincide with a shareholder’s meeting.<br />
“Wendy’s shareholders are meeting to discuss their massive revenue and approve strategies to increase it,” said Lupe Gonzalo from CIW in a prepared statement. “But what will not be a topic of conversation is the fact that, as the final major fast food holdout to the Fair Food Program they are literally extracting profit from the grinding poverty and abuse of farmworkers all the while manicuring their image with a Code of Conduct for Suppliers that contains absolutely no mechanism for worker participation or enforcement.”<br />
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers representative Lupe Gonzalo speaks to demonstrators in front of Wendy’s flagship store in Dublin, Ohio, their the company’s headquarters. Photo by Gregg Brekke</div>
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The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has supported the CIW from the beginning as it worked to secure Fair Food agreements from Yum Brands, McDonald’s, Burger King and Subway. At its recent meeting in Louisville, the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board <a href="http://www.pcusa.org/news/2016/5/10/support-grows-national-boycott-wendys-restaurants/" target="_blank">officially endorsed the call for a national boycott</a>. The Rev. Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has also endorsed the boycott, saying, “The PC(USA) joins the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in calling on Wendy’s to sign a Fair Food agreement.”<br />
“Wendy’s has, for many years, avoided the criteria of the Fair Food Program, even as other companies have joined on,” said De La Rosa. “We believe, as people of faith, that it is time for Wendy’s to adopt the criteria of this program. Thievery in the field, sexual harassment and other abuses have no place in the supply chain of our food. It is right and moral that workers receive a fair wage and just working conditions are established.”<br />
Ecumenical and interfaith religious leaders joined student groups and other labor organizations at the protest urging Wendy’s to adopt fair labor practices and increase payments to produce pickers to which other major fast food corporations have agreed. Ruth Farrell and Andrew Kang-Bartlett of the <a href="https://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/compassion-peace-justice/hunger/">Presbyterian Hunger Program</a> also joined in the protest.<br />
“[Presbyterians] have been with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers for years,” said Farrell. “We’ve marched with them, prayed with them and stood with them as 13 restaurants have signed the Fair Food Program to make sure working condition are fair in the tomato fields and Wendy’s doesn’t want to do it. So after many years, we’re joining with their boycott.”<br />
Three representatives from the protest group were present in the shareholder’s meeting and reported back to the group that Wendy’s claims its internal “code of ethics” binds its employees to a standard for purchasing. But coalition members say this code does not meet the criteria of the Fair Food Program and avoids holding foreign vendors, primarily Mexican produce companies, to any standard at all.<br />
The CIW has called for a boycott against Wendy’s because:<br />
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<li>Wendy’s has stopped buying tomatoes from Florida altogether. Rather than support the U.S. growers, the company now buys tomatoes from Mexico where reports of widespread human rights violations continue in the produce industry.</li>
<li>Wendy’s has rejected the Fair Food Program, but released a new supplier code of conduct that the CIW claims provides no means of worker participation or enforcement.</li>
<li>Wendy’s profits from farmworker poverty by refusing to join the FFP and instead, pay for produce from less reputable growers.</li>
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In a press release, the CIW stated, “Wendy’s stands alone as the last of the five major U.S. fast food corporations refusing to join the Fair Food Program. By refusing to participate, Wendy’s is deriving a very real cost advantage over its competitors, while continuing to provide a market for less reputable growers.”</section><footer class="article-footer"><ul class="social-share social-share--fixed">
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</footer>Patty S. Redwoods HAAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054236884429787706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600989641292680437.post-69309685286740617182016-05-15T16:09:00.000-07:002016-05-15T16:09:29.508-07:00Simple Living eNews May 2016<br />
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Works! eNews</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">May, 2016 - #56</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In This Issue:</span></div>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">New
Service: <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/indexoth.php?place=nudge.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Our Simple Living Daily Nudge</span></a> // </span></strong></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">NEW
SLW! Podcast: <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=1335" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Ed Fallon</span></a> //</span></strong></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">NEW <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00aadc;">SLW! Site Search Engine</span></a> on Home Page
Window #4</span></strong></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Recent
SLW! Podcast: <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=1310" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">redmoonsong of NWTRCC</span></a> //</span></strong></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
Others Are Doing - So Much Help!</span></strong></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">More!</span></strong></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">What's NOW with
SLW!</span></h2>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/indexoth.php?place=nudge.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Our Daily Nudge</span></a> reminders us that simple living
is more than my or your personal happiness or success. Instead it’s about
our mutuality.</span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">All
SLW! resources can be used for yourself, your family, your congregation
or group - for inspiration and education. For example, if you're tired of
generic clip art for your worship bulletin, newsletter or web site,
hopefully TheNUDGE will guide you to some more challenging, thoughtful
reproducible items.</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
is structured around our "Alternate Any Year Calendar," plus
some quotes and art from our collection "Spirit of
Simplicity" and alternate celebrations from our "Treasury of
Celebrations." Most of the graphics are line art, “retro” drawings
on purpose that highlight the text, the words.</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">While
my weekly blog focuses on what other simple living/minimalist bloggers
and podcasters are doing, and promotes the SLW! podcast, each Daily Nudge
will focus on one resource from SLW! timeless archives.</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">While
my weekly digest/blog is extensive – some would call it “text heavy” –
containing some 50 links, each Daily Nudge is designed to have just one
quote, one idea, one link.</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Follow
me, Gerald Iversen, on LinkedIn, Google+ or Twitter for a daily nudge, or
subscribe by email. Send NUDGE in the subject line to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com</a>.
Follow Simple Living Works! on Facebook, Pinterest and now Instagram for
occasional nudges. All the nudges are archived so you can catch up if
need be. Go to <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SimpleLivingWorks.org</span></a>, window #2. Your feedback is,
of course, welcome.</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
theme for May is a new look at <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/indexoth.php?place=archives/Calendar/Calendar.php#May" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Environment - The 4 R's</span></a>, especially appropriate for
our podcast guest, activist Ed Fallon.</span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=1335" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: blue;">SLW!
Podcast #68: Ed Fallon</span></span></strong></a>, talk show host of Fallon
Forum, climate crisis activist, former elected state official</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here's
help with next year's taxes! -- <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=1310" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SLW! Podcast #67: redmoonsong</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is
a simple living war tax resister. Her inspiring personal story shows that
simple living does indeed work! <a href="https://simplelivingworks.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/waging-peace-at-tax-time/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Waging Peace at Tax Time</span></a> // <a href="http://nwtrcc.org/war-tax-resistance-resources/pamphlets/practical-war-tax-resistance-5/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Simple Living as a War Tax Resister</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/indexoth.php?place=blog.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SLW! Blog Index</span></a> | <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/indexoth.php?place=podcast.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SLW! Podcast Index</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SUBSCRIBE</span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> to
SLW! Podcast for free through <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/simple-living-works!-podcast/id684869201?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">iTunes</span></b></a>, <a href="http://stitcher.com/podcast/simple-living-works" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Stitcher.com</span></b></a> or
your favorite podcast service. <strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Subscribe
to SLW! Blog. </span></strong>Click "+Follow" at lower
right of blog post, enter a name and email address. Welcome!</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Simpler
Living Alternative Daily Calendar -</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/indexoth.php?place=archives/Calendar/Calendar.php#May" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">MAY</span></a>: Environment - the 4 R's</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Check
out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your
personal, family or congregational/group needs. They're all FREE.
Visit <strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/indexoth.php?place=archivesThemes.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index</span></a></span></strong></span></li>
</ul>
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SLW!</span></h2>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">SLW! Podcast #69 - Renowned scholar and author Walter
Brueggemann </span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">What Others Are
Doing - <a href="https://simplelivingworks.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/slw-weekly-so-much-help/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">So Much Help!</span></a></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I'm glad to pass along links from simple living bloggers,
podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn't read
them all. Choose FIVE links -- including SLW! -- to investigate.</span></div>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Becoming
Minimalist</span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Joshua Becker)</span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.becomingminimalist.com/inspiring-simplicity-0416c/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Inspiring Simplicity Reads</span></a> (4/30)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.becomingminimalist.com/compliment/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Compliments
Are Free </span></a>(4/18)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.becomingminimalist.com/inspiring-simplicity-0416b/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Inspiring Simplicity Reads</span></a> (4/16)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.becomingminimalist.com/accessible/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Whatever
Is Accessible, Gets Utilized</span></a> (4/9)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.becomingminimalist.com/the-cost-of-convenience/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Cost of Convenience</span></a> (1/19)</span></li>
</ul>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://newdream.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Center for a New American
Dream</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">: <a href="http://act.newdream.org/page/s/kids-unbranded-action-kit?" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Kids Unbranded Action Kit</span></a></span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://act.newdream.org/page/m/17bfd155/3105d7e9/2c7b7e6a/567ecd5f/553543711/VEsC/" target="_blank" title="https://www.newdream.org/blog/2016-01-a-year-of-buying-nothing-new?&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newdream&utm_content=4+-+A+Year+of+Buying+Nothing+New&utm_campaign=email&source=email"><span style="color: blue;">A
Year of Buying Nothing New</span></a>: Mom and simple living expert Julie Fathy</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://act.newdream.org/page/m/17bfd155/3105d7e9/2c7b7e6a/567ecd5d/553543711/VEsA/" target="_blank" title="https://www.newdream.org/blog/2016-01-why-give-up-chocolate-for-lent-when-you-can-give-up?&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newdream&utm_content=6+-+Going+Plasticfree+Faithfully&utm_campaign=email&source=email"><span style="color: blue;">Going
Plastic-free, Faithfully</span></a>: Retired pediatrician Carol Janus found
renewed purpose in helping others <a href="http://act.newdream.org/page/m/17bfd155/3105d7e9/2c7b7e6a/567ecd5c/553543711/VEsB/" target="_blank" title="https://www.newdream.org/blog/2016-01-why-give-up-chocolate-for-lent-when-you-can-give-up?&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newdream&utm_content=7+-+when+she+partnered+with+the+faithbased+c&utm_campaign=email&source=email"><span style="color: blue;">when
she partnered with the faith-based community</span></a>—and beyond—to raise
awareness about plastic pollution in her community.</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqGbZxG9K8M" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">How to
Start Your Own Toy Library</span></a> (recorded webinar)</span></li>
</ul>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Common Good Podcast</span></b></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.jubilee-economics.org/podcast/episode-71-jim-redmond-mr-missouri-river-on-acting-ecologica.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: blue;">Ep.
71: Jim Redmond</span></span></strong><span style="color: blue;">, Mr. Missouri River,</span></a> on Acting
Ecologically Wherever You Live (5/1)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.jubilee-economics.org/podcast/episode-70-william-ostrander-i-want-to-reverse-climate-chang.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Episode 70: William Ostrander:: I Want to Reverse Climate
Change by How I Farm. Why Am I Also Running for U.S. Congress?</span></a> (4/1)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Episode
69: <a href="http://www.jubilee-economics.org/podcast/episode-69-anne-marie-tipton-the-movement-to-divest-from-fos.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Anne Marie Tipton: The Movement to Divest from Fossil
Fuels Is Growing Rapidly</span></a> (3/1)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.jubilee-economics.org/podcast/episode-68-convergence-of-oneearth-living-and-voluntary-simp.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Episode 68: Convergence of OneEarth Living and
Voluntary Simplicity</span></a> (2/1)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.jubilee-economics.org/podcast/episode-67-raising-up-the-common-good-living-more-simplytwo.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Episode 67: Raising Up the Common Good & Living More
Simply—Two Components in Earth-Size Living</span></a> (1/1)</span></li>
</ul>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.communitysolution.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Community
Solutions</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">: Founded in 1940, this non-profit
organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of
face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide
resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative
solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.creationjustice.org/capsules.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Creation
Justice</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.creationjustice.org/capsules.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">: </span></a>CAPSULES
– News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.emagazine.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: blue;">E</span></span></strong><span style="color: blue;">-The Environmental
Magazine</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Earth
Mama</span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Joyce Rouse) – <a href="http://www.earthmama.org/home" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Website</span></a>, <a href="http://www.earthmama.org/items/index/songbooks/thumbnail" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Songbooks</span></a>, Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB <a href="http://www.earthmama.org/items/index/songbooks/thumbnail" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Thumbdrive</span></a>, <em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Standing
on the Shoulders</span></em> <a href="http://www.earthmama.org/standing-on-the-shoulders" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">music
video</span></a>, <a href="http://www.earthmama.org/items/index/songbooks/thumbnail" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">sheet music offerings</span></a> // <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=1033" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SLW! Podcast</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eco-Justice
Ministries</span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Peter Sawtell) // <a href="http://www.eco-justice.org/E-list.asp#Simplicity" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Voluntary
Simplicity archive</span></a> // <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=589" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SLW! Podcast</span></a> #18 // <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=1293" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SLW! Podcast #66</span></a></span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.eco-justice.org/E-160429.asp" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Confused
about Recycling</span></a> (4/29)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.eco-justice.org/E-160422.asp" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">What We
Know - Earth Day 2016 </span></a>(4/22)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.eco-justice.org/E-160415.asp" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Civil
Disobedience, Withdrawing Consent</span></a> (4/15)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.eco-justice.org/E-160408.asp" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Pushing
the Boundaries of Activism</span></a> (4/8)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.eco-justice.org/E-160401.asp" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Celebrating
Fools</span></a> (4/1)</span></li>
</ul>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://godspace-msa.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">GodSpace</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Christine
Sine) // <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=716" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SLW! Podcast</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://paper.li/Homesteadings/1321684095" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The
Homesteading Guide Daily</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">: Exploring life
off the grid.</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jubilee
Economics</span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Lee Van Ham, Dan Swanson,
Gerald Iversen)</span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.jubilee-economics.org/journal/2016/4/17/jubilee-and-the-kingdom-of-god-a-better-model-for-us-than-su.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Jubilee and the Kingdom of God: A Better Model for Us
Than Superpower Domination and Failures</span></a> (4/17)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.jubilee-economics.org/journal/2016/4/12/elections-in-times-of-crisis.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Elections in Times of Crisis</span></a> (4/12)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.jubilee-economics.org/journal/2016/3/25/how-gospel-is-part-of-a-linguistic-coupthree-authors-who-tur.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">How "Gospel" Is Part of a Linguistic Coup—Three
Authors Who Turned the Word Upside Down</span></a> (3/25)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.jubilee-economics.org/journal/2016/1/31/positive-signs-from-central-coast-calif.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Positive Signs from Central Coast Calif.</span></a> (1/31)</span></li>
</ul>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">NEW-<a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/a-living-earth-economy" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">A
Living Earth Economy</span></a> (David Korten - Yes! Magazine): This column
explores how we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living
wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.susanvogt.net/blog/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Living Lightly</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Susan
Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): <a href="http://www.susanvogt.net/blog/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">365+ Days of
Give-Aways</span></a> - Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather
than just putting them in the trash //<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></strong><a href="http://www.susanvogt.net/blog/365103-tmi-summary/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: blue;">TMI</span></span></strong><span style="color: blue;">-Too Much Information</span></a> // <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=878" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SLW! Podcast</span></a> // <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=891" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SLW! Podcast: Lent</span></a></span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1.
SPENDING MONEY:</span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.susanvogt.net/blog/365109-inheriting-investing-money/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Inheriting & Investing Money</span></a> 3 guidelines</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.susanvogt.net/blog/365110-generosity-vs-prudence/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Generosity & Prudence</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.susanvogt.net/blog/365111-letting-go-of-stuff/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Gift Giving</span></a> criteria</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.susanvogt.net/blog/365116-shopping-silly-socks/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Shopping and Silly Socks</span></a></span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2. CHOOSING WHAT TO GIVE
AWAY:</span></div>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.susanvogt.net/blog/365114-the-beauty-of-empty/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Beauty of Empty</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.susanvogt.net/blog/365115-emptying-our-closet/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Emptying Our Closet</span></a> + negotiating with others</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.susanvogt.net/blog/365112-cookbooks/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Too
Many Cookbooks</span></a> - Parting with books.</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.susanvogt.net/blog/365113-lazy-misc-stuff/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Lazy? YES, But Done? YES</span></a> - Don't let finding
the perfect place to give your stuff, keep you from doing anything.</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://thirdway.com/live-simply/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Live Simply</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Third
Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.theminimalists.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Minimalists</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> podcast
(Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Minimalism is the thing that
gets us past the things so we can make room for life's most important
things -- which actually aren't things at all.</span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://theminimalists.com/p019" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">019: Mentalclutter</span></a> (4/27)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://theminimalists.com/p018" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">018: Writing</span></a> (4/20)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://theminimalists.com/p017" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">017: Health</span></a> (4/12)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://theminimalists.com/p016" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">016: Ryan</span></a> (4/7)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://theminimalists.com/p015" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">015: Consumerism</span></a> (3/31)</span></li>
</ul>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://msainfo.us/andys-blog/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Mustard Seed
Associates</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Andy Wade)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">NorthWest
Earth Institute</span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">'s latest <a href="http://www.nwei.org/discussion-course-books/sustainability-works/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">discussion course ebook, </span><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: blue;">Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual</span></span></em></a> // <em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/xsipi/5e5rvn/tpd4ic" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Change
Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions</span></a> // <a href="http://www.nwei.org/voluntary-simplicity-resources/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Voluntary
Simplicity</span></a> // </span></em><a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=1016" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SLW! Podcast</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
OneEarth Project</span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Lee Van Ham)</span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://theoneearthproject.com/blog/sizing-up-our-great-work.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sizing Up Our Great Work </span></a> (4/21)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://theoneearthproject.com/blog/the-heroic-journey-to-keep-earth-livable.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable</span></a> (4/14)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://theoneearthproject.com/blog/fun-affordable-way-to-get-a-professional-design-for-your-boo.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Fun, Affordable Way to Get a Professional Design for Your
Book Cover, Tee Shirt, etc.</span></a> (3/28)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://theoneearthproject.com/blog/cover-art-for-my-next-book-artist-john-august-swanson.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cover Art for My Next Book: Artist John
August Swanson</span></a> (3/18)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Three
minute film: <a href="http://theoneearthproject.com/films/2014/10/2/ecology-and-economicscolleagues-not-rivals.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://theoneearthproject.com/events/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Conversation about
The OneEarth Project and Lee's book,</span>
</a><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Blinded by Progress:
Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us</span></em></span></li>
</ul>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Pastoral Center/Gospel Living</span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Paul
Canavese) // <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=1102" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SLW! Podcast</span></a></span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://catholiccreationcare.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">CatholicCreationCare.com</span></a> -
General resources</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://creationcarekids.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">CreationCareKids.com</span></a> -
Children’s resources</span></li>
</ul>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">NEW
- <strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Pynpinie</span></strong>:
ideas for the inside of your home that are simple to use, functional and
attractive: <a href="http://www.pynpinie.com/16-actions-to-take-today-to-live-a-simple-life/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">16 Actions to Take Today to Live a Simple Life</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://postconsumers.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">PostConsumers</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">:
Find the Satisfaction of Enough</span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">NEW--<a href="http://www.postconsumers.com/education/marketing-101-for-the-postconsumer/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Marketing 101 for the Postconsumer</span></a>: understand how
marketers are manipulating us, so we can make informed decisions about
how <i>we</i> control our consumerism.</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Updated <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GvzfFNqhxQEJ6zdJxgp1yvIomEBmu2HBMdKL--4j9W1KOzjYqAms7vO97uoDq4Xn3HJ1EDtTlE8YPqLpnwz9fGaZvJK43xfM6ce84qulxR4E53M39XMp6jOD17UtpUfrTTEVDd6a57feu-Mc7_Ra07nQCjhDEARunewtUH2T65dk3FO8qZejRS1UCiF-iQKHou8tg29HYlo9qympG0Qlnn10aGh3NL-OTEjgsP6AuqKCOTlule9Dc1fo-NVMCTZ1VUCgqAcRHJQkbUIc3-ceIe0HV1eUPPihoopa78T2AgtGT5HJg3AUxLNj9V7wbEajKQrPk4xlhh3Vf65H_xdUJboEcYDy5mCM&c=07DFxBsAtUdnLPDPJYxO_1h7eNNhtEW9MpSRFyqDIYFb70n8GSbG6A==&ch=i_Gj60JiKtOpATii34ZgttG7gL2-MHdU42acTsirmo7v42_do-Qulg==" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Postconsumers Glossary</span></a>: From serious definitions
to inspiring Postconsumers core values and even a few playful
throw-aways.</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GvzfFNqhxQEJ6zdJxgp1yvIomEBmu2HBMdKL--4j9W1KOzjYqAms7tk3XDTy4fb9wa4Skjc0MCCpnX-RC1PYXEW7uWarYyIxKR2F0Y9YRqAfDT9maAn_ou-glPg7ynoL4x9xYV0STMzKHZD80xUXaI4Kik2JcSmUJscLkEzM0BC5GmtF7j-dTUsDIMLOiChQC4btwK7kGhSj-WGoxS6a4k757WhpDdwp9rEEgVez1HTxR1JA-0-setQ1mAGJ8yHaP6KoiTneLTyEo2-ihVnB4OvrTP8KLAfq5cffzEN6BOtiV1moMgrWtg==&c=07DFxBsAtUdnLPDPJYxO_1h7eNNhtEW9MpSRFyqDIYFb70n8GSbG6A==&ch=i_Gj60JiKtOpATii34ZgttG7gL2-MHdU42acTsirmo7v42_do-Qulg==" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Control Addictive Consumerism</span></a>: Interactive Web Course</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GvzfFNqhxQEJ6zdJxgp1yvIomEBmu2HBMdKL--4j9W1KOzjYqAms7ltz7RvRFkAZy64xGU369RoABIm5I1vrizwgbqLe4xihhTMkD7G4oSHMz1iJiGwp4rbMDdMuIISwcJ-TTxyKwS5ewUukL-IXUcGhTAgIdiUmMf_J43eO6Go6nEBzpXZ86KkGtxChlWC_zfNfp3u9kJp709YNJOoIbq_J3AtVZF1-KKd__SJ2Vl5__Aeg99wOPCsLmh0nAQuh35qQtVnxyymbghDTLN78GDm4Y5CTF3eWeXtJppTHzhvYB38Or_OrpnHBHYLy4gd85oqSqxuMsSKSSkPp-4gfVL8j-zoMidfX5ZPHI2TzzgY=&c=07DFxBsAtUdnLPDPJYxO_1h7eNNhtEW9MpSRFyqDIYFb70n8GSbG6A==&ch=i_Gj60JiKtOpATii34ZgttG7gL2-MHdU42acTsirmo7v42_do-Qulg==" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Disposable Nature of Addictive Consumerism</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GvzfFNqhxQEJ6zdJxgp1yvIomEBmu2HBMdKL--4j9W1KOzjYqAms7ltz7RvRFkAZU5UXsHIG3c2pUHhmllEukl8yKmuno1g37BjzRxwysy3qrI-KlJrQJi6nEXnVjyTdD6sXA0UfFVve44YjB6JhZkPS2nZrYzLkHOjC4nrXItPeOJXp8fa8mEDUvkQaAn8F2kvRypXl61BY1WOldRq_sugOtxkMQ4pBtgoGxgy8XrLxC1Ud8P5vaqs4Z-tW5jFkwg3pDMItpPU1MDdeDer_U4C_7ch32Bu_ryFnq-aPF6OilfB22P2u8fVga-f9_XvkZXibAjQIgNHFzJzmwpD24pzNgtkKTXItnzi8kQKdfxI=&c=07DFxBsAtUdnLPDPJYxO_1h7eNNhtEW9MpSRFyqDIYFb70n8GSbG6A==&ch=i_Gj60JiKtOpATii34ZgttG7gL2-MHdU42acTsirmo7v42_do-Qulg==" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Difference Between Anti-Consumerism and
Postconsumerism</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GvzfFNqhxQEJ6zdJxgp1yvIomEBmu2HBMdKL--4j9W1KOzjYqAms7ltz7RvRFkAZjQ-d4VHwvcjKTmY-y-Zisrbt0qw6qykn_s0j6fNvsdPAM2q0qvxTp92giFz-S5FixRKYQBYUcn3JQYJ9KxAQLsoXdJVvKa8BM1UEBIMtqDRgZ--4Om13WnFxC29dqAfK8irvLd_eqS1quVU_gJH29yZv6a9JJJBsDzLLwtsh2ZNbJw4V_GREvJ5T-9X5DAG0C3uKgk9cP_eG2YHUY0aPg8Ce0tEaE94B_pgk6OkopSfNi9gGcOa8RSbBKg1uvRYJXPJgjvR0N9maXwjXnxpps_Qz5UXaEus07SZspogUTDA=&c=07DFxBsAtUdnLPDPJYxO_1h7eNNhtEW9MpSRFyqDIYFb70n8GSbG6A==&ch=i_Gj60JiKtOpATii34ZgttG7gL2-MHdU42acTsirmo7v42_do-Qulg==" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Good, Bad and Ugly of Emerging Markets</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GvzfFNqhxQEJ6zdJxgp1yvIomEBmu2HBMdKL--4j9W1KOzjYqAms7ltz7RvRFkAZKDyWMetOMl2PR3hZMTwhYTcIKpHt2yliWdm13dXZ1a3EgvmyG_RXb7_sTjp-LrCWaRWxh0q8eO5RD6dpuNDiq4Tg93dirIsVH9iXRQhK9GMCVOXvldRa_kYUgItToq23EkjH0dIjy-ie4BcVjUnU_GVcElxQMI9ALRGzt3qnsMG_hKaxUgb-VN1KnwIShsVtpY9L9zoBZUQSCF_CYBjKdJqkzqjL3JtYvDYBXxOtqvYz3CA28pwUkERoxnLkgzI5U28Kuh89SnHN-3ypKEJDbO9SomFjoouL&c=07DFxBsAtUdnLPDPJYxO_1h7eNNhtEW9MpSRFyqDIYFb70n8GSbG6A==&ch=i_Gj60JiKtOpATii34ZgttG7gL2-MHdU42acTsirmo7v42_do-Qulg==" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">You Are Not Where You Shop</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GvzfFNqhxQEJ6zdJxgp1yvIomEBmu2HBMdKL--4j9W1KOzjYqAms7ltz7RvRFkAZsFVSxDuH-RjNNX-EdKVGRqZ1gSxkghtpVSCJN5nQQXDHj0p2mGrmbi2dO5szKWnuEXS70XFCjQPxE3l5LeWck655D1HXTLVSCRJBr2jD2VkNbvVcmKMUgs66MDmHmkECjGtbKsbhyAMG8YKMh6G_MovdnvOZjpXmPLxWFcbuI7brckow9zTZaZ8xWveOcIKpKYo9aMo1FceJ2GIJS6B9PR51QDZzuAeEyeK6uT3gHPG-s2lhCFBy92zwiDc7MR11aLxOwbXvXmnN_77DNKBfsdD7H9brx3kSQ6ttA35sTwA=&c=07DFxBsAtUdnLPDPJYxO_1h7eNNhtEW9MpSRFyqDIYFb70n8GSbG6A==&ch=i_Gj60JiKtOpATii34ZgttG7gL2-MHdU42acTsirmo7v42_do-Qulg==" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Consumerism of Having a Baby</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GvzfFNqhxQEJ6zdJxgp1yvIomEBmu2HBMdKL--4j9W1KOzjYqAms7ltz7RvRFkAZPBdxt4DZqeFYiYtHlWdvgoGqbENptUcPnvNrZBErarPeM9ePzUX_cbqV4YC8V4C0jjnwjU2cSyfv7_cddZHyM4EJVf6lqL1O7ujPIMpxAXRJj683Moh5Pmh1sNrYcFyBPZ25JJE8nNqXzZgNGHTLdnK4rvQzaBckWsuTnwVKGyUTLrpv1QmowejXWXlcUOR5kHh9O-dhjNk8-j4Hu0722_s4KtVshuhg60552AR-RnZSErFc7H_jxQGFgPDXump11mRRg0d2IR9EiNFmZTtV-kADu2UJPf4Rk5QkXwVXZSM=&c=07DFxBsAtUdnLPDPJYxO_1h7eNNhtEW9MpSRFyqDIYFb70n8GSbG6A==&ch=i_Gj60JiKtOpATii34ZgttG7gL2-MHdU42acTsirmo7v42_do-Qulg==" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Is It Greenwashing or Ethical Consumerism?</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GvzfFNqhxQEJ6zdJxgp1yvIomEBmu2HBMdKL--4j9W1KOzjYqAms7ltz7RvRFkAZotvS9wbhMqW1v6tP72b50Yzi0quUvL2huG8qt3WpLAAnlAsAbG_aG2ZDuAizGHx4kJ8VpKFo9F_RaVJuYye7Tr4mQWw_A4eqxn6aBvY6BFmQ0glIq2MlukWojxbwbdTMtqzkijtTmK4I63c-LBfP_mY7EZ8z51zLXzn3JGfu_wbSQqSJf9rWZVs0dGfv_dXgwcIWWNBLTRzqNB14LG5jctjY9EZSkfz7ZeL83ttEeHS5JcJ5OJ-CsqCtAs32jLAv6asM3ng3QO6qzJbockhjG-4_ZcvlYdlBr2MfZtwkkTc=&c=07DFxBsAtUdnLPDPJYxO_1h7eNNhtEW9MpSRFyqDIYFb70n8GSbG6A==&ch=i_Gj60JiKtOpATii34ZgttG7gL2-MHdU42acTsirmo7v42_do-Qulg==" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Hidden Consumerism of Camping</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.postconsumers.com/education/millennials-and-consumerism/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Millennials and Consumerism</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tips
for Raising PostConsumer Children: <a href="http://www.postconsumers.com/education/postconsumer-grade-school-tips/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Grade School</span></a> // <a href="http://www.postconsumers.com/education/postconsumer-middle-school-tips/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Middle School</span></a> // <a href="http://www.postconsumers.com/education/postconsumer-high-school-tips/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">High School</span></a> // <a href="http://www.postconsumers.com/education/postconsumer-college-tips/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">College</span></a></span></li>
</ul>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.thelutheran.org/blog/simpleenough/index.cfm?person_id=1718" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: blue;">Simple
Enough</span></span></strong></a> (Bob Sitze) // <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=765" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SLW! Podcast</span></a></span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Mindless
Exultation? (3/26)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Time
for Hard Choices?" (3/25)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Hats"
(3/22)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Simple
Congregations: Disaster Preparedness" (3/7)</span></li>
</ul>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://simpleliving.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Simple Living</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">:
the Good Life (Janet Luhrs)–Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://paper.li/f-1405735575" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Simple Times</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Debi
Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://simplicitycollective.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Simplicity
Collective</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> - Let us be pioneers once more
(Samuel Alexander)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.simplicityparenting.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Simplicity
Parenting</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Kim John Payne): because it is
a beautiful world</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://valueofsimple.com/category/podcast/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Smart
and Simple Matters</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> podcast (Joel
Zaslofsky of <strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><a href="http://valueofsimple.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Value of Simple</span></a></span></strong>:
Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // <a href="http://simpleliving.startlogic.com/SLW-PODCAST/?p=899" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SLW! Podcast</span></a></span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
More of Less and Generosity as an Act of Bravery (Joshua Becker) – Ep.98</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Alexx
Stuart: from World’s Best Bartender to Low Tox Life Champion–Ep.97</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Being
Happily Replaceable, Spreadsheet Poets, and Fertility Challenges (Emily
McDermott)–Ep.96</span></li>
</ul>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">TreeHugger</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">:
Finding a Greener Future</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Various
Publications</span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">NEW--"Organize
His Way: A Christ-Centered Approach to Organizing Your Life," Bible
study workbook and support network. <a href="http://eileenkoffministries.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">EileenKoffMinistries.com</span></a> Blessings,
not stuff, Eileen Koff CPO (Certified Professional Organizer)</span></li>
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(CASSE)</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://cac.org/enoughness-instead-of-never-enough-2016-02-19/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Enoughness Instead of Never Enough</span></a> (2/19) Center
for Action and Contemplation (Richard Rohr)</span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pirate
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Patty S. Redwoods HAAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054236884429787706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600989641292680437.post-458602029992175402016-05-11T12:09:00.002-07:002016-05-11T12:09:59.074-07:00TPP - Trans Pacific Partnership Update
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Unveiled: It's Worse than We Thought</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #36026b; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In early November
2015, after seven years of close-door negotiations with the public, press and
policymakers locked out, the final TPP text was released. In chapter after
chapter, the final text is worse than expected, with the demands of the 500
official U.S. trade advisers representing corporate interests satisfied to the
detriment of the public interest. The </span><span style="color: #36026b; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/analysis-tpp-text-november-2015.pdf"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: blue;">text reveals</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #36026b; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> that the pact </span><span style="color: #36026b; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/tpp-nafta-on-steroids-infographic.png"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: blue;">replicates many of the most controversial terms of
past pacts</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #36026b; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> that promote job
offshoring and </span><span style="color: #36026b; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://citizen.org/documents/prosperity-undermined.pdf"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: blue;">push down U.S. wages.</span></span></a></span></div>
<span style="color: #36026b; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION">If passed, the TPP would:</span></span><br />
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<li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=6475"><span style="color: blue;">make it
easier for big corporations to ship our jobs overseas, pushing down our
wages and increasing income inequality</span></a>,</span></b></li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.citizen.org/tpp-food-safety-facts"><span style="color: blue;">flood
our country with unsafe imported food</span></a>,</span></b></li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.citizen.org/tpp-public-health"><span style="color: blue;">jack up
the cost of medicines by giving big pharmaceutical corporations new
monopoly rights to keep lower cost generic drugs off the market</span></a>,</span></b></li>
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<li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=5411"><span style="color: blue;">empower
corporations to attack our environmental and health safeguards</span></a>,</span></b></li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=5414"><span style="color: blue;">ban Buy
American policies needed to create green jobs</span></a>,</span></b></li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=6474"><span style="color: blue;">roll
back Wall Street reforms</span></a>,</span></b></li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.eff.org/issues/tpp"><span style="color: blue;">sneak in SOPA-like
threats to Internet freedom</span></a>,</span></b></li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and <a href="http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=6587"><span style="color: blue;">undermine
human rights</span></a>.</span></b></li>
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and its fate in Congress is uncertain at best. <a href="http://citizen.org/fast-track"><span style="color: blue;">Fast Track</span></a> trade authority only passed
through Congress by the narrowest of margins after a series of legislative
maneuvers, with reluctant support from some key swing members contingent upon
certain provisions being in the final TPP. The released text shows these concerns
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unprecedented array of organizations</span></a> have joined together in a powerful and
diverse coalition to stop the TPP. Groups united on this extend well beyond
labor unions and include consumer, Internet freedom, senior, health, food
safety, environmental, human rights, faith, LGBTQ, student and civil rights
organizations. Opposition to the TPP is growing at home and in many of the
other countries involved.</span></div>
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<li style="color: #36026b; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">UPDATED Initial TPP Text Analysis: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/analysis-tpp-text-november-2015.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">Secret
TPP Text Unveiled: It's Worse than We Thought</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #36026b; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Compilation: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/blog/2015/11/05/civil-society-reacts-to-finally-released-tpp-text/" target="null"><span style="color: blue;">Early Statements from Labor, Consumer, Enviro, Etc.
Organizations After TPP Text Release</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #36026b; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TPP Corporate Empowerment Map:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=4083"><span style="color: blue;">See which foreign
corporations near you could use NAFTA-style investor rights to challenge
laws and regulations under the TPP</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #36026b; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Case Studies:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/egregious-investor-state-attacks-case-studies.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">Investor-State
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<li style="color: #36026b; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Factsheet Series:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Learn how the TPP's investment
rules harm <a href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/TPP-and-services.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">Public
Access to Essential Services</span></a>, <a href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/TPP-and-health.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">Public Health</span></a>
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For Your State?</span></a></span></li>
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"Fair and Equitable Treatment" Standard in 75% of
"Successful" Cases Against Governments</span></a></span></li>
<li style="color: #36026b; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Find out more on the blog:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/trans-pacific-partnership/"><span style="color: blue;">Read
the latest on the TPP on </span><em><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: blue;">Eyes
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<em>A “trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency, and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade. It contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions to, and securing the rights of, disadvantaged producers and workers — especially in the [Global] South.”</em> – definition by FINE, a grouping of Fair Trade organizations that created a widely accepted definition of Fair Trade in 1998</div>
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A form of hunger ministry</h4>
The <strong>Presbyterian Hunger Program</strong> works to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes.<br />
<strong>Fair Trade</strong> is an economic model that helps people:<br />
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The PC(USA)’s Fair Trade work is coordinated by the <a href="http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/hunger/">Presbyterian Hunger Program</a>, thanks in part to support by the <a href="http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/specialofferings/one-great-hour-sharing-offering/">One Great Hour of Sharing</a> Offering. PHP is thankful for the continued generosity of Presbyterians that enables us – together – to witness the healing love of Christ. Learn how your congregation can <a href="http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/specialofferings/how-promote-2011-one-great-hour-sharing/">support OGHS</a>, or <a href="http://www.presbyterianmission.org/give/OG999999/">give today</a>.<br />
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<em>Written by Jessica Maudlin, Associate for Enough for Everyone, Presbyterian Hunger Program</em><br />
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The PC(USA) has been involved in issues of <a href="http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/fair-trade/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5b8f22;">Fair Trade</span></a> since the <a href="http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/enough/presbyterian-coffee-project/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5b8f22;">Presbyterian Coffee Project</span></a> began in 2001. Fair Trade is a “trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency, and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade. It contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions to, and securing the rights of, disadvantaged producers and workers — especially in the [Global] South.”<br /><br /><a href="http://wfto.com/events/world-fair-trade-day-2016" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5b8f22;">World Fair Trade Day</span></a>, started in 2001 by WFTO members, falls on the second Saturday of May of each year. It is an inclusive worldwide festival of events celebrating Fair Trade as a tangible contribution to the fight against poverty and exploitation, climate change and the economic crises that has the greatest impact on the world’s most vulnerable populations. And PHP hopes that you’ll consider supporting and celebrating Fair Trade this year as part of your Eco-Journey.<br /><br />Learn more about the connections between Fair Trade and the Environment in this video from our partner, <a href="http://equalexchange.coop/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5b8f22;">Equal Exchange</span></a>:<br />
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Eco-Journey is the blog of the <a href="http://www.pcusa.org/ministries/environment/"><span style="color: #5b8f22;">Environmental Ministries Office</span></a> of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). It includes a wide array of environmental topics: upcoming environmental events, links to interesting articles and studies, information on environmental advocacy, eco-theology topics, and success stories from churches that are going “green.”<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Please continue to pray for the lives that have been
turned upside down due to recent earthquakes and flooding, here in the
U.S. and abroad. It’s timely that one of the highlighted stories this
month is about the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) National
Response Team. Volunteers go through a rigorous process of training,
discussion and discernment to become members. Many are called into dire
circumstances to serve at a moment’s notice; I admire their passion and
commitment to serving God’s children when they need help the most! I
hope you’ll <a href="http://info.pcusa.org/t/i-l-hhiral-iitdhykky-i/" style="text-decoration: none!important;"><span style="color: #0a8cce;">consider caring for our sisters
and brothers in Ecuador and Japan</span></a>. PDA is preparing both immediate
and long-term support for earthquake victims in each country. <br />
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If you or your congregation have ever considered hosting an
international peacemaker, but for whatever reason didn’t feel connected
to do so, please read this month’s story from Ivyland Presbyterian
Church in Pennsylvania. They took a chance on sponsoring a peacemaker
in 2014 and re-applied in 2015 to host again. There will be more
information about how to host a 2016 Peacemaker in upcoming months, in
the meantime, learn more about the program <a href="http://info.pcusa.org/t/i-l-hhiral-iitdhykky-d/" style="text-decoration: none!important;"><span style="color: #0a8cce;">here</span></a>. <br />
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Fair Trade Day, a worldwide recognition of the efforts to end poverty
and exploitation, is held the second Saturday in May every year.
Sunday, June 12 is Disability Inclusion Sunday; the Presbyterian
Health, Education & Welfare ministry offers resources for
congregations to faithfully affirm that <strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">every</span></strong> person is created in
God’s image. <br />
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Faithfully in Christ, <br />
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Sara Pottschmidt Lisherness <br />
Director, Compassion, Peace, and Justice Ministry </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fair Trade
Day </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Celebrate
fair trade! Learn more about Fair Trade Day, May 14. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://info.pcusa.org/t/i-l-hhiral-iitdhykky-k/" style="text-decoration: none!important;" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Learn more</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every
person brings gifts to the church—Disability Inclusion Sunday, June
12</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Join in
prophetic ministry by using Pioneers and Prophets, the Presbyterian
Health, Education & Welfare Association’s resource for
Disability Inclusion Sunday. Make every day a day where no one is
excluded and all are welcomed. </span></div>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background: #669A09; border-collapse: collapse; height: 32px; mso-padding-alt: 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100px;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://info.pcusa.org/t/i-l-hhiral-iitdhykky-o/" style="text-decoration: none!important;" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Learn more</span></a></span></div>
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<div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://info.pcusa.org/t/i-l-hhiral-iitdhykky-b/" style="text-decoration: none!important;"></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Neighbor
to Neighbor project transforms lives</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Read how a
Self-Development of People grant allowed Neighbor to Neighbor help
Olga reintegrate into the community as a compassionate counselor.</span></div>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background: #669A09; border-collapse: collapse; height: 32px; mso-padding-alt: 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt 3.0pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100px;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://info.pcusa.org/t/i-l-hhiral-iitdhykky-n/" style="text-decoration: none!important;" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Learn more</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pennsylvania
church inspired by Peacemaker visits</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hosting a
Peacemaker humanized the Syrian refugee crisis for one small
congregation. It also helped connect refugee resettlement agencies
and interfaith organizations within their local community and
Philadelphia. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2016
Mosaic of Peace Conference concludes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Visit the
Swords into Plowshares blog to reflect on the amazing experiences
shared by conference participants as part of their two-week sojourn
in a land called Holy. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Willing to
be deployed into a disaster situation on a moment’s notice takes a
special passion and sense of calling; Presbyterian Disaster
Assistance commissioned 17 new full-fledged team members to its
National Response Team recently. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">RIDE FIVE DAYS</span> from Mendocino thru Ukiah, Middletown, Davis and finish in Rockville. A total of 268 miles. The first three days have some medium to long climbs. Included in this five day ride is a very special stop in Davis on Wednesday, Sept. 21st at the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame. <br />
<br /><span style="color: red;">A ONE DAY RIDE</span> option on Thursday, Sept. 22nd is from Rockville and includes the scenic 48-mile three bridges loop in Solano County. Shorter options available through the lush valleys of Napa/Solano County of 10, 25, and 35 miles. Finish line festivities include a delicious lunch & rider raffle. <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt;">LIVE: <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=y4zHhwVIMiq%2BVPaHUK5X6ozA323I7YK9"><span style="color: #303494; letter-spacing: .4pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Official new Wendy’s Boycott website up and running, including a call
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt;">Resources,
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">While Fair Food activists
were taking to the streets in cities across the country during the Month
of Outrage in April, back here in Immokalee the <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">online</span></em> action hub for the
Wendy’s boycott was quietly being built, pulling together all the resources
necessary for tens of thousands of consumers to make their voices heard in
the Wendy’s campaign. And this week, the beautiful new site is
ready for its debut!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Front and center on the new
site: Pledge to join the boycott! If your name is not yet on the
list, make sure to sign on today and share the pledge far and
wide. [...]</span><br />
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endorsements, both institutional and individual. To quote those
organizations who have already led the way with official endorsements,
we need to send Wendy’s an unequivocal message:</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">In the face of Wendy’s
failure to do the right thing, we, as organizations, people of faith,
students, and consumers of conscience, pledge to boycott Wendy’s until the
world’s third largest hamburger chain commits to protect the human rights of
the farmworkers who make their profits possible by joining the Fair Food
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from your campus groups, your national networks, your religious
institutions, and your community organizations!</span></b></a></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Secrets, secrets are no fun unless they're shared with
everyone.</b></span></em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b> <br />
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Have you heard of the Cardin-Lugar Amendment? It's a bipartisan law that
requires publicly traded oil, gas, and mining companies to publicly
disclose what they pay to governments for natural resources in countries
around the world – including in Africa. This is critical for enabling
citizens to know where that money goes, arming them with the information
they need to ensure the money gets into the right hands. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;">Right now the
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But what do secrets and transparency have to do with extreme poverty? <u>Everything</u>.
When these payments are kept secret, money can be easily stolen or
mismanaged. By providing citizens with information they need to monitor
the money, this law empowers them to hold governments accountable and
ensure that the money is invested in things that fight poverty and
improve citizens' lives. <u>We can't afford to allow these secret
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rule.</span></a></span></strong> <br />
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The EU and Canada have passed similar, strong laws in support of
transparency. It's now the U.S.'s turn to do the same. <strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif;"><a href="http://act.one.org/sign/big_oil_2?t=4&utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&akid=7741.1395178.B_OAMT"><span style="color: blue;">Tell
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Patty S. Redwoods HAAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054236884429787706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600989641292680437.post-42173222965034195702016-01-26T12:35:00.002-08:002016-01-26T12:35:43.507-08:00Coalition of Immokalee Workers - Wendy's
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<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=v9IzOJ0OORSXBSB4HvNCGtwuAYZJuXjF"><b><span style="font-size: 36.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">A Battle for the Soul of Social
Responsibility… </span></span></b></a><br />
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<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=c%2B%2F7jCW2hM%2Bq0MAPggSfNtwuAYZJuXjF"></a></div>
<span style="font-size: 36.0pt;">Wendy’s new code of conduct is a prime
example of the discredited standards-without-enforcement model of
corporate social responsibility;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 36.0pt;">Workers’ Voice Tour to contrast Wendy’s
code with the proven success of the Fair Food Program and the
Worker-driven Social Responsibility model…</span><br />
What would you do if you could cheat on your taxes and know that you would
get away with it? Not just <em>think</em> you might get away with it if
you’re lucky, but really know that no one is watching and there would be
no consequences. Would you do it?<br />
The answer is pretty obvious. Nobody <em>likes</em> paying taxes.
And even many of those who think taxes are a necessary part of
living in a modern, organized society would jump at the chance to
pay less than they owe, or nothing at all, if there were no monitoring
or enforcement of the country’s tax laws. We could all certainly find
other ways to use the money.<br />
T<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=S%2FrN0YAI3kKiSPPH3FJt69wuAYZJuXjF"></a>hat’s
why, when it comes to taxes, we don’t rely on voluntary compliance.
Things like roads and schools, libraries and agricultural extension
offices, scientific research and space discovery, and social, economic, and
national security don’t pay for themselves, so we have a
well-funded and powerful monitoring body, the Internal Revenue Service.
The IRS’s job is simple: to ensure that if we do decide to cheat on
our taxes, it is far more likely than not that there will be consequences.<br />
The result? Most of us pay our taxes, most of those who don’t get
caught, and, in the main, compliance is achieved. As we have said
before on this site, enforcement is everything.<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 24.0pt;">When it comes to human rights, however,
it seems voluntary compliance is just fine with Wendy’s...</span></b> <br />
Just as our country has a tax code, Wendy’s has a code of conduct for its
suppliers that establishes the rules — on everything from food safety to
human rights and labor practices — with which it says its suppliers must
comply in order to be “approved to provide goods, products, equipment,
or services” to the hamburger giant. <br />
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cover page to Wendy’s new code of conduct.</i></div>
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Yet a deeper review of the code, which went into effect as of the first of
this month, reveals that there is little or no reason to hope that
Wendy’s suppliers will actually comply with those rules, or at least with
those that are in any way inconvenient for them. <br />
Wishful thinking, it seems, is Wendy’s principal, perhaps sole,
strategy for compliance...<br />
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<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4w%2F3nQy2crV3d6KVAU5ectwuAYZJuXjF"><b><span style="color: blue;">Read
the full point-by-point comparison of Wendy's new code of conduct with the
Worker-driven Social Responsibility model over at the CIW website!</span></b></a></div>
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