SILVER SPRING, Md. — Students who advocated for renovation of a Camden, N.J., park in one of the country’s poorest cities spoke at St. Francis International School last week about how they used community organizing to make the area cleaner and safer. Over the past few years, the Student Leaders’ Von Nieda Park Task Force renovated a park near St. …
No to Globalization of Indifference, Yes to Globalization of Solidarity
Indiscriminate mining, with its detrimental impact on both the environment and local peoples, is an emerging JPIC priority among the entire Franciscan family. Extractive mining companies are entering many areas throughout the world with the promise of prosperity for the indigenous people. Instead, the people remain impoverished, with some communities experiencing an increase in strife and violence between those who …
Multicultural Service Concludes Franciscan Fast for Families
One month after the fast for immigration reform began, the Fast for Families coalition packed up the tent on the National Mall. Though Congress is on winter break, activists have not given up their fight to create a path to citizenship for immigrants in the United States. “I feel very fortunate that we touched the hearts of America,” Eliseo Medina, …