FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

One Issue, Thousands of Voices
Blogs are a powerful advocacy tool.  Think of it! One issue, thousands of voices. Some people did.  Independently organized “Blog Action Day 2008″ focusing on poverty  drew 12,800 Bloggers 14,053 Blog Posts and 13,498,280 Readers.
Working toward a Vincentian Blog Action Day on the feast of Vincent dePaul September 27.
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A fun activity to start a conversation about immigration with your leaders or allies. Northwest Federation of Community Organizations (NWFCO} created this board game as a tool for grassroots organizations to use. Just click on the game parts below and print them out and you´re ready to go.

The Vincentian Millium Partnership (VMP) collected  11,125 signatures asking the British Government for the compassionate and just treatment of  asylum seekers in the UK. The Rt Hon John Battle presented our petition on 29th April in the House of Commons.

These words, See it, Film it, Change it!, represent another approach to systemic change. The website WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. “We empower people to transform personal stories of  abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change.” See their [...]

“Dear President Obama” begins two new Charities Federation Action Alerts from Caroljean Wille, NGO representative at the United Nations for the Charities Federation (pictured at the right)  Normally the Alerts for the US and Canada are the same. In this case, however, there were reasons for distributing two different one in light of different national [...]

Covenant House shows how to use YouTube to put a face on  faceless homeless teens. An example of how video sharing sites can be used in making known the needs of groups of people in need.

A camera the size of a pack of cigarettes that makes it easy to upload even HD (high definition) movies and costs USD $150-200 depending upon which model is the latest tool we have in making the marginalized visible.

Some of  the more comprehensive faith-based resources for the upcoming election in the US include the United States Bishops website and the Education for Justice Website. The latter site is especially rich in providing discussion guides, including one on the current financial crisis, based on the range of church teaching adapted for various levels. Try [...]

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has released a DVD and Guide “Voice of the Poor Guide”  They also now have a  Supply Catalog and Order Form on-line at “SHOP” on the left top of the Home Page. You may send orders in by email, fax or regular mail.

Patricia de Nava, past President of the AIC, presented a talk at the LCUSA Assembly in San Antonio  on  “Systemic Change: A Process to change the unjust situations affecting the poor” The outline of her talk follows.