Pilgrimage for Earth

Come join us for an enlivening experience learning how to grow healthy food and restore the soil.

Be inspired by energizing speakers who care about living sustainably on the Earth.

Pray with us as we learn how God roots us in the natural world.

Visit Michaela Farm Oldenburg, Indiana managed by the Sisters of St. Francis.

Details:

June 18-19, 2010

Salem Heights, 4960 Salem Ave, Dayton, Oh 45416

Registration 6:30PM Friday June 18

Cost $75.00; $50.00 for Commuters

-Don't let inability to pay discourage, scholarships are available.

Friday night, comfortable guest rooms of Salem Heights are available.

The Pilgrimage will finish by 8:30pm Saturday.

Adults 18 years and older are welcome.

-Reserve your space by the June 6 deadline!

Send an e-mail with your name, address, phone number and need for a guest room to:

pilgrimage4earth@gmail.com

Story of Bottled Water

Another enlightening installment from the Story of Stuff series!!

See the Video here:
http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/

What to do about Bottled Water:
http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/what-you-can-do/

More Critique on Arizona Law SB. 1070

Arizona Immigration Law Violates Constitution, Guarantees Racial Profiling

By Mary Bauer, SPLC Legal Director

"Arizona’s newly adopted immigration law is brazenly unconstitutional and will undoubtedly trample upon the civil rights of residents caught in its path.

By requiring local law enforcement to arrest a person when there is “reasonable suspicion” that the person is in the country illegally, Arizona lawmakers have created a system that guarantees racial profiling. They also have usurped federal authority by attempting to enforce immigration law."

For the whole article click SPLC

Arizona Immigration Law Proclaimed a Social/Racial Sin

Jim Wallis of Sojourners speaks boldly about the unjust law just passed in Arizona that would force police to question anyone reasonably suspected of being in the country without permission for their paperwork. Basically this forces racial profiling and discrimination while demanding that everyone must carry their documents about their migration status in the state.

While we might be afraid of the serious changes happening in our contemporary world, we cannot justify discrimination and further injustice just to appease our fears. Immigrants are a source of life and can be a real blessing if only we can learn to embrace them. I'm not advocating that there be no criteria for migration, but only that we go much deeper than exploitative security measures and build comprehensive immigration reform.

-Read more on the God's Politics blog. Link and excerpt below.

Jim Wallis on Arizona Law

"Arizona’s SB 1070 must be named as a social and racial sin, and should be denounced as such by people of faith and conscience across the nation. This is not just about Arizona, but about all of us, and about what kind of country we want to be. It’s time to stand up to this new strategy of “deportation by attrition,” which I heard for the first time today in Arizona. It is a policy of deliberate political cruelty, and it should be remembered that “attrition” is a term of war. Arizona is deciding whether to wage war on the body of Christ. We should say that if you come after one part of the body, you come after all of us."