Current Issues and Actions

Issues and Actions 2011

December

  • Immigration Laws

November

  • Alternative Gift Giving
  • Awakening the Dreamer
  • American Children Need our help
  • Prisoners are People Too
  • KIVA - Loans that change lives

October

  • In Pursuit of Promise and Hope
  • October is Domestic Violence Awareneww Month

September

  • Mind the Gap - the wealth gap

June/July

  • Members of JOLT
  • Socially Responsible Investors
  • Global Warming - Is there hope with this Congress?
  • Coco Cola
  • Other signs of hop

May

  • Care for God's Creation
  • Inconvenient Truths
  • Search for the St. Francis Pledge

April

  • Earth Day and Earth Day Network
  • National Child Abuse Prevention

March

  • International Womens Day - 100 years
  • Role of the United Nations
  • Helping the World's Poor Help Themselves

February

  • Fair Trade - More Than Just Coffee and Chocolate

January

  • National Human Trafficking Awareness Day January 11

Issues and Actions 2010

November

  • Migrant Workers 

October

  • Ending the Death Penality
  • 2010 Elections

September

  • The Challenge of Immigration Reform

August

  • Earth Charter Ten Year Anniversary
  • Ways to Take Action
  • Slave-Free Chocolate
  • Fair Trade Products

May

  • Fair Trade Products

April

  • 40th Anniversary of Earth Day
  • St. Francis Pledge

March

  • Human Trafficking

February

  • Haiti, So Small; The Destruction So Large

January

  • Justice for Immigrants

Issues and Actions 2009

November

  • Human Trafficking
  • Economic crisis

October

  • Alternative Gift Giving

September

  •  Feast of the Seven Dolors

  • Peacemaking

  • Healthcare Access

July

  • Health Care Reform: The Great Debate 

May

  • Together Green

April

  • Earth Day 2009

  • Generation We

March

  • International Women's Day 2009

  • "Global Disconnects: The Internet and Human Trafficking"

  • World Water Day - March 22

  • Earth Hour - March 26

February

  • Millenium Goals
  • Global Slavery and the Plague of Poverty in the Majority World

January

  • World Peace Day

  • Immigration

Issues and Actions 2008

December

  • International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

October

  • Climate Change

  • 10 Gallon Challenge

September

  • Convention for the Common Good

August

  • A Call to Political Responsibility

April

  • Earth Day April 22, 2008

March

  • Earth as Teacher

February

  • Human Trafficking

January

  • Human Trafficking

Issues and Actions 2007

November:

  • Environmental sustainability

October:

  •  UN Millennium Goals

September:

  • Water - Millennium Goal 7
  • St. Vincent's Day Home

 August

  • Eradicate poverty as an ethical, social and enviornmental imperative.  Earth Charter III,9

July

  • Millennium Development Goals
  • Call to Action

 

 May   Reduce - Re-use, Recycle

 Issues and Actions 2006

November

  • Global Warming

  • JOLT's Thank you to the legislators

October

  • Habitat for Humanity

  • Middle America

September

  • Three-Strikes Law

  • Co-op America Eco Power

August

  • Global Warming

  • Save Darfur Organization

July

  • The Patriot Act

  • Endangered Liberties

June

  • Global Warming

May Special Immigration Edition

May

  • The Gift of Water

April

  • Earth Day April 22

  • Water Resources

  • Gasoline - USA companies

  • One Child shop

March

  •  Sweat-Free Movement    

February

  • Trafficking, the new slavery

January

  • Water Privatization

Issues and Actions 2005 

December

  • Human Trafficking

  • Gift ideas

  • Recipe for Peace

November

  • Global warming

  • The Kyoto Protocol

October

  • The Death Penalty

September

  • Oil Usage in the U.S.

  • Exposing Exxon Campaign

  • Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

  • Hurricane Katrina Relief

August

  • Human Dignity

July

  • Preserve Resources

June

  •  Ways to Impact Homelessness

May

  • The Earth Charter

  • Fair Trade Day - May 14-15

April

  • April 22 the 35th Anniversary of Earth Day

March

  • March 8 is International Women's Day

February

  • February is Black History Month
  • Modern Day Slavery:  Trafficking

Issues and Actions 2004

 

  • Environment Sustainability

  • Global Partnership

April

  • Health Issues

March

  • Gender Equality

February

  • Millennium Development Goals

  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

  • Achieve universal primary

January

  • Endangered Species

  • The Secret Life of Water

                                   

August  

  • Faithful Citizenship
  • Earth Charter: Stores and Labor policies
  • Walmart

October

  • Earth Charter Principle #10

  • LCWR Social Justice Issues:  Trafficking

November

  • Walmart:  What's Wrong With It?

  • Fair Trade Products

  • Alternative Christmas Ideas

December

  • Peace Filled Lights

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