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Act Now for Responsible Finance and Debt Cancellation July 23rd, 2010

Please take action to press for responsible lending and desperately needed debt cancellation for poor countries – Click here for our Action Alert.

This Alert also includes an action to Make Mercury Pollution a Thing of the Past.

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Action Alert: Stop Racial Profiling and Urge Financial Reform April 22nd, 2010

Help Stop Racial Profiling in Arizona

Whether you reside in the state or not, Arizona Governor Brewer needs to hear your opposition to the Anti-Immigrant bill now before her. Tell Governor Brewer to veto SB1070!

Tell Your Senators to Support Financial Reform

Go to the Action Alert for details…

Action Alert: Carbon Fast and More… February 12th, 2010

February Action Alert

A ‘Lent Carbon Fast’ calendar is available from the Environmental Outreach Committee of the Archdiocese of Washington. Please consider using the Lent Carbon Fast Calendar as part of your Lenten discipline.

Take Action: Demand Financial Transparency – Tell the G20 to Create Financial Transparency and staunch the flow of capital out of poor countries.

December Action Alert – Let’s Avoid Another Meltdown! December 3rd, 2009

Take Action to Protect People and the Planet

- Support Creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency
- Join the Call for Derivatives Reform
- Ring Your Church Bells – Send a Message to Copenhagen!

Learn more and take action – click here for our December Action Alert

October Action Alert: Update on Columban Priest Kidnapping and Action Urged on Climate Legislation October 22nd, 2009

The Columban Fathers are now asking that groups refrain from action in the case of the kidnapping of Fr. Mike Sinnott, due to the delicate nature of the situation. Your prayers for his safety are requested instead.

In addition, we urge your support of climate legislation pending in the Senate.

Read our latest Action Alert for details.

Oblate JPIC Action Alert: Protest Killing of Indigenous People in the Amazon June 10th, 2009

URGENT ACTION NEEDED!

Police Massacre of Indigenous Protesters in the Peruvian Amazon is linked to the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement

Over the past weekend, confrontations in the Peruvian Amazon between nonviolent indigenous protesters and police have left more than 60 people dead. As many as 30,000 Indigenous people have been protesting for nearly two months, a series of Presidential Decrees issued last year under the US-Peru FTA implementation law. Several of these decrees directly threaten Indigenous territories and rights.

Please click here to take action to tell President Obama of our outrage at the massacre of peaceful, indigenous protesters in Peru that is directly connected to the Free Trade Agreement.

Last April, 41 Oblate parish priests from the region issued a statement titled, “Protecting and Respecting the Amazon, we protect the indigenous”. The priests spoke directly of “the increase of social injustice and ecological destruction which threatens the very existence of indigenous and peasant communities that are being despoiled of their lands.”

Full Statement available on this website.

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