Metanoia Newsletter, March 2013

Download the March 2013 newsletter here. PDF format.

Features:

• “Unmasking the Gods of the Marketplace”
• Podcast 32: Vet for Peace, Barry Ladendorf
• from the JEM Network
• An Eye-opening Experience in Chiapas, Mexico

Military Going Green?

Quick, tell me: who is the largest consumer of energy in America? It’s the Defense Department. Recently they have begun to reason that decreasing fuel consumption, especially fuels obtained from foreign sources, is essential to national security. They seek decreases not only for themselves but for all Americans.

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JEM and the Catholic Worker: A New Partnership with Benefits for Us All

All of the Roundtables engage us in the reduction of conflict by offering an alternative. It’s a good fit for JEM, because a jubilee economy helps us live an alternative amid the global economy that fosters conflicts in the quest for cheap resources and labor.

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INTERdependence Day

INTERDEPENDENCE is a key reality of all of nature and the cosmos.  Because a jubilee, one-Earth economy copies nature’s wisdom of how to make exchanges that mutually benefit all involved, interdependence is at the heart of it. That’s why jubilee likes the Declaration of Interdependence and its 9/12 annual celebration.

Duchrow Assesses Global Economy

What should Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or Hinduism be saying about global capitalism? That question is addressed by Ulrich Duchrow in the Winter, 2011, issue of Tikkun magazine—an excellent publication presenting perspectives from writers of many of the world’s religions.  Duchrow is a professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he specializes in theology-economic issues, dialoguing with many throughout his global, ecumenical activities. In 2004 and 2007, Jubilee Economics Ministries hosted Ulrich for a series of gatherings in both Southern California and Chicago. Kairos Europa also links you to some of the work Ulrich does with many colleagues in Europe.

The article in Tikkun includes a statement prepared for the May, 2011, International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in Kingston, Jamaica. The article concludes with “A Response to an Imagined Critic from North America.”

Accompanying the Palestinian People in Struggle

The suffering and hope of the Palestinian people locked in open-air prisons, surrounded by 30-foot walls of concrete has inspired me in a way that is similar to what I experienced when I traveled to Central America in the 1980’s; which translates into an integration of their message of hoping for justice and peace into my everyday way of being and behaving. I’ve been back a little over two weeks, and I’ve become accustomed to sharing and reflecting on the experience every day with someone(s). I know that I’ve been saturated with both grief and joy in communicating my experiences daily, because I don’t even need to keep track of what I’ve done on any given day.

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