FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 28, 2013 President Obama Visits Africa as Corporate Tax Avoidance and Debt Crisis Trap Millions of Africans in Poverty Faith Community Prays Trip will Focus on Poverty WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama is traveling to the African nations of Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa from June 26-July 3 See Jubilee USA's Director's press statement below and read Jubilee's recommendations to the President and backgrounder here. Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee...
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Read this reflection about the Southern border written by Melissa G. Davis, coordinator of the Office of Immigration Issues for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), as the Senate debates the Corker-Hoeden amendment, which doubles down on unnecessary and excessive border militarization provisions. The border is not this inanimate object. It is not a place that indicates the end of one thing and the beginning of another. My observation is probably...
At 5:30 p.m. today, the Senate will vote to replace the current version of SB744 with the Corker-Hoeven Amendment. It is expected that this vote will pass and the Corker-Hoeven Amendment will become the NEW reform legislation. Please see below for a summary of the changes. Advocates are feeling very torn about this because it militarizes our border, while tying legalization to those changes and expenditures. There are questions about how this build...
Friday, 21 June 2013
Although the media tends to focus on violent incidents in Israel and Palestine, nonviolent actions for peacemaking occur daily with little fanfare. As people of faith, it is our duty to help raise the voices of both Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers against the ongoing acts of horrific violence and terror. Urge your members of Congress to seek a true resolution to the conflict, not just a swift action that will perpetuate the suffering of our sisters and brothers in the middle east. If any peace agreement is to succeed, it must...
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