by John Freund, CM | May 17, 2009 | Justice and Peace
“The Story of Stuff”, a 20-minute video presenting a brief, provocative way of drawing students into a dialogue about how buying a cellphone or jeans could contribute to environmental devastation , has become a sleeper hit in classrooms across the...
by John Freund, CM | May 10, 2009 | Featured, Justice and Peace
In this weeks featured video on famvin (right hand column) the question is asked “What if you lost everything, how long would it take you to get something to eat, find a place to stay, and a get some work? A Brazilian pastor, Claudio Oliver, offers up a...
by John Freund, CM | May 7, 2009 | Collaboration, Formation, Justice and Peace
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. I think St...
by John Freund, CM | May 4, 2009 | Collaboration, Featured, Justice and Peace, Systemic change
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...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 29, 2009 | Justice and Peace, Systemic change, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
In light of the upcoming United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development the Sisters of Charity Federation, Office of the NGO Representative Sr. Caroljean Wille, SC requests letters be written to President Obama....
by John Freund, CM | Apr 26, 2009 | Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
A project to remove graffiti was initiated when Ashfield Council (Sidney) received letters from students at St Vincent’s Parish Primary School asking if they would improve a pedestrian underpass and remove all of the ‘bad words’. The students also said...
