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“The voiceless finding a voice” | Oakland Occupy Movement

BY ISN STAFF | April 30, 2012 Written by: Joe Hoover, S.J. In late January, Occupy Oakland held a march to “squat” in a vacant building in downtown Oakland and create an Occupy headquarters and community center. I live in nearby Berkeley…
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VIDEO: El Salvador Immersion | Esperanza “Hope”

BY ISN STAFF | April 30, 2012 Thomas Ireton, a sophomore studying Film and Television Production at Loyola Marymount University, recently shared this documentary he made about his immersion trip to El Salvador through LMU's Campus Ministry…
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Solidarity Education: Engaging Worker Rights at St. Peter’s Prep Arrupe Week

March 26-30 was Arrupe Week at Saint Peter’s Prep. Each year the program brings a specific issue of injustice to the forefront and encourages our community to engage it and take action. This year's theme, “Rights of the Worker,” was relevant in today’s world and directly related to Fr. Pedro Arrupe’s famous 1973 address "Men and Women for Others" where he stated, Catholics must have a firm determination to draw no profit whatever from clearly unjust sources. Not only that, but going further, to diminish progressively our share in the benefits of an economic and social system in which the rewards of production accrue to those already rich while the cost of production lies heavily on the poor.