12 June 2018 Report on REFUGEE CARAVAN by Dennis Conroy VP Chicago Network
Call To Action in Tijuana/Migrants on the Move In April, 2018, along with scores of volunteer attorneys, migrants and human rights advocates, I responded to an urgent call-to-action requesting assistance on behalf of a large group of migrants expected to arrive soon...
A Report on the 62th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
Left Behind or Approaching the Tipping Point? by Lucina Kathmann With Jennifer Clement, PEN International's President, featured on a UNESCO sponsored panel “Safe Journalists” as one of the events at the 62nd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of...
Address by Patrick Keenan-Devlin: Why all the violence and what can we do about it?
Piper Hall, Loyola University (Monday, October 2, 2017) I would like to attempt to answer the question, “Why do youths resort to violence?” through the lens of 18-year-old Aiden. As an 18-year-old, just a couple of months shy of walking the stage to receive his high...
Capitalism with a heart?!
In 1983, in the midst of the Contra War against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua that had overthrown the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza, a Franciscan nun from Milwaukee introduced me to the concept of co-operative economics. I was in Nicaragua participating in...
“Survival of the Fittest:” Making America Great Again
The first time I was told I did not 'fit' was in third grade. Before nodding off and drooling on her desk, Sr. D. bitterly complained, as she stared me in the eye, about having to teach us Italians and Blacks—unfit to be in her class, fit only for servitude or...
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