Ministries: Advocacy and Community Organizing, International
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Advocacy Trips (Phoenix, AZ)
The aim of our advocacy trips is to learn about injustice in its' various forms, explore their root causes and then take action. Students who participate in one of our advocacy trips will be challenged to not only learn about the injustice but to become an advocate for justice. Trips offered include: the Birmingham/SOA Protest/Ignatian Family Teach-in, the March for Life Trip, Washington, D.C., the Ignatian Family Spring Teach-In on Environmental Justice and Sustainability, and a visit to the Ignatius Jesuit Centre of Guelph, Canada.
Amnesty International (Chestnut Hill, MA)
Our purpose is to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. We investigate and expose abuses, educate and mobilize the public, and help transform societies to create a safer, more just world. Our vision is of a world in which every person - regardless of race, religion, gender, or ethnicity - enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. Founded in 1961, our organization has campaigned successfully in recent years for the International Criminal Court and a UN Torture Treaty. Through our research and action, governments have been persuaded to stop human rights violations and change their laws and practices. Death sentences have been commuted. Torturers have been brought to justice. And prisoners of conscience have been released. We ask you to join us - to take action and stop human rights abuses wherever they occur.
Community Outreach Clubs (San Francisco, CA)
- Amnesty International
- Music For Others
- Social Justice
- Frosh/Soph Social Justice
- Environmental Club
- Pro-Life Club
- United Students Against Sweatshops
- S.M.A.S.H.
El Salvador Interest Group (Charlotte, NC)
Through ecumenical outreach, education, and action St. Peter's seeks to accompany the people of El Salvador in building and sustaining a nation of peace and justice. By developing intentional relationships between the community of St. Peter’s and the community of Ciudad Segundo Montes, the parish hopes to raise the awareness of the people of Charlotte about El Salvador and its connection with the United States.
Gesu Parish Direct Service (Milwaukee, WI)
The social ministries are active year-round and open to all parishioners to join in making the social mission of the church the essential and central mission of the parish. Examples of ministries include: parish twinning with St Jude's parish in Haiti, ongoing social justice eduation programs, and fair trade coffee sales.
Gesu Social Concerns Committee oversees a number of programs to the homeless including a regular Saturday meal program, Sunday breakfast bags. Gesu parishioners also partner with downtown congregations offering shelter and day programs to the homeless individuals and families and Gesu parishioners were instrumental in the establishment of a Milwaukee Housing Trust Fund
Parish Social Ministry (Spokane, WA)
Parish Social Ministry promotes the social mission of the parish.
Its emphasis is two-fold:
1) education and formation of the parish community and
2) organization of parishioners into four complementary ministries:
charity and direct service
legislative advocacy
global solidarity
community organizing/empowerment.
Pax Christi (Worcester, MA)
Pax Christi, a chapter of Pax Christi International, meets Wednesday nights in Campion House from 9:00-10:00 pm. All students are welcome.
The group has a threefold focus:
- to educate its members on issues of justice, war and peace;
- to foster a strong sense of community among it members through prayer, reflection and discussion;
- and to decide on specific actions to promote justice.
San Diego Border Immersion (Philadelphia, PA)
The San Diego Border Experience seeks to inform individuals of the various opinions of immigration by exposing volunteers to the faces behind the issue, and working in solidarity with those most closely affected by immigration. This program offers educational travel and service learning opportunities to engage with community development initiatives. Via International/Los Niños provides a framework to nourish personal development, foster community engagement, strengthen organizations, and promote global dialogue.
Student Human Rights Coalition (Los Angeles, CA)
The Human Rights Coalition (HRC) strives to strengthen the LMU community’s commitment to live out the school’s own mission statement of “encouraging learning, the education of the whole person, and the service of faith and the promotion of justice.” The HRC does not take this often confusing and misunderstood LMU mission statement lightly. Rather, the Human Rights Coalition is committed to discovering and living out this vision to its fullest by becoming people of and for others, especially for the poor, voiceless, marginalized, and those most in need in our midst.
Students involved in the HRC earn to understand and integrate justice and faith. The Human Rights Coalition becomes a community where LMU students can express their passion for social justice and peace through conversations, reflections, social analysis, prayer services, questions, action, and by engaging a diversity of speakers on social justice and faith issues. The Human Rights Coalition continually seeks to build relationships and collaborate more closely with others on justice and peace activities. The HRC “Unite” is an effort to bring together student groups, clubs, service organizations, the Greek communities, departments, and professors to coordinate concretely on acts of justice and activism here at LMU.
The Global Women's Project (Washington, DC)
The Global Women's Project approaches questions of women's human rights and equity through a long tradition of research, theological reflection, advocacy, outreach, popular education and coalition building.
