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Healing the Past

What does justice look like 151 years after the Indian Island Massacre? November 17, 2011 by Austin Leininger   PDF Version (Optimal for Printing)   The Last Dance The year is 1860. California has been a state for ten years.

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Healing Drums in Coastal Louisiana

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Photo: Healing Drums in Coastal Louisiana Photo by: 2010 Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) and Eco-Steward Evan Ponder, a Wetlands Advocate and Friend Featured in: Nov 2012 – Jan 2013 issue, “Hope for Eco-Activists: Discovering an Environmental Faith” Cultural Reinvigoration and Political Efficacy Coastal communities in Louisiana are at high risk

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Late At Night… Dear House

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A poem in response to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) re-authorization debate in Congress. Eighteen years ago, this week, VAWA was signed into law. In April 2012, the Senate approved a version of VAWA that extends services and protections to battered undocumented immigrants and to gay, lesbian, and transgender

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Introduction to Indigenous Peoples’ Struggles for Land Rights

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An introduction to the indigenous land rights articles November 29, 2011 by Carol Robb, Professor of Christian Social Ethics at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union   The assignment in a current doctoral seminar in distributive justice: Write an article to a general audience about a particular

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Healing the Past

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What does justice look like 151 years after the Indian Island Massacre? November 17, 2011 by Austin Leininger   PDF Version (Optimal for Printing)   The Last Dance The year is 1860. California has been a state for ten years. Settlers from the frontier town of Eureka have been invited,

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Conflicts over Jeju naval base in South Korea

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  November 22, 2011 by Jinsung You        PDF Version (Optimal for Printing)                                                                             Naval Base: Development or Occupation? In 2002, the South Korean government initiated a project to build a strategic naval base on the southern resort island of Jeju, but it was postponed due to opposition from local

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Indigenous Voices at the United Nations

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How the United Nations Addresses Indigenous Rights December 7, 2011 by Mark Koenig, Director of the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights notes that: Indigenous peoples across the world experience the consequences of historical colonization and invasion of their territories, and

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