Dr. Walter Brueggemann will speak at the next Justice Conference in Portland, OR. Here he explains "the doing of justice is the prophetic invitation to do what needs to be done to enable the poor, the disadvantaged, and the neglected to participate in the resources and wealth of the community."
An Invitation to Justice from The Justice Conference on Vimeo.
The Justice Conference. February 24+25, 2012. Portland, Oregon. Follow them on Twitter: thejusticeconf
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Slavery in the United States
A woman came to our job program office and said she risked everything to be there that day. She was not allowed to leave her job in a sewing factory south of downtown. She was given a place to sleep inside the factory. She worked when she was awake.
An ICE officer tells a group of students on a tour of downtown that the neighborhood they are in is notorious because of the immigrants who are forced to work to pay for the services provided to get them to this country when they were brought here with the offer of a job. Law enforcement has few or no tools to change what is going on.
A teen in a church youth group tells one of the leaders that he was offered a job in the United States by another youth in his Costa Rican hometown if he would just go with him north--a trip that included riding on top of trains and being smuggled across multiple international borders. When he arrived in the United States he was given a package of drugs to sell. If you refused, the penalty would be death.
Slavery in the US exists and is fueled by a lack of reasonable laws to protect the vulnerable. What intellectual capital do you bring to help the situation?
HT to Jubilee a nonprofit band for posting the video.
An ICE officer tells a group of students on a tour of downtown that the neighborhood they are in is notorious because of the immigrants who are forced to work to pay for the services provided to get them to this country when they were brought here with the offer of a job. Law enforcement has few or no tools to change what is going on.
A teen in a church youth group tells one of the leaders that he was offered a job in the United States by another youth in his Costa Rican hometown if he would just go with him north--a trip that included riding on top of trains and being smuggled across multiple international borders. When he arrived in the United States he was given a package of drugs to sell. If you refused, the penalty would be death.
Slavery in the US exists and is fueled by a lack of reasonable laws to protect the vulnerable. What intellectual capital do you bring to help the situation?
HT to Jubilee a nonprofit band for posting the video.
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