The Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice wants your feedback on the future of projects for our Globalization Task Force.

Please take two minutes to complete this survey to let us know your thoughts on three proposed projects. It’s quick. It’s easy. And it helps us make wise decisions.

Take the survey now. The deadline is January 1, 2008.

ICPJ’s own Stephanie Oswald had a great op-ed placed in the Ann Arbor News on Friday, November 30.

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Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007, 6:30 p.m. at Memorial Christian Church

The Globalization Task Force will show parts of the PBS documentary “The New Heroes” to look at how social entrepreneurs are working to break the cycle of poverty by empowering people to earn a living, including:

· Muhammad Yunus – “the banker to the poor” whose Grameen Bank provides loans to millions of families in Bangladesh

· Albina Ruiz Rios forming micro-enterprises to clean up garbage that is ruining the environment, contaminating water, and causing disease in Peru

Social entrepreneurs: courageous, compassionate, and committed to transforming society, these brilliant men and women have turned their business skills into tools for change, development, and hope. For them, profit is measured not in dollars and cents, but in lives saved and dignity restored. These iconoclastic thinkers use the power of capital, business savvy, and fertile imagination to help oppressed and impoverished people transform their own realities.

What: Join the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice, RESULTS, the United Nations Association and other community and campus groups to stand up against poverty.

When: Wednesday, October 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Where: U.M. Diag

Why: To support the Millennium Development Goals to end poverty and promote equality. Continue Reading »

What: Rally to support anti-sweatshop activists and call on the University of Michigan to go Sweatshop Free

When: Thursday, September 20, 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm.

Where: The Spinning Cube behind the Fleming Building

Why: To support the 12 University of Michigan students who were arrested for a nonviolent action to encourage the University to go sweatshop free and to call for rules to make University apparel sweatshop-free. Continue Reading »

Join us to learn more about an injustice created by globalization, to write to leaders about that injustice, and of course, to eat breakfast.

This month, Rev. Peggy Garrigues-Cortelyou, Membership Outreach Coordinator of Michigan Interfaith Power and Light, will be on hand to lead us in letter writing to encourage our elected officials to take action in response to global climate change. Additionally, Rev. Garrigues-Cortelyou, serves as Director of the Guild House, a U-M campus ministry organization.

Drop by anytime between 7:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 3 at the Broken Egg, 221 N. Main Street in Ann Arbor.