LIVING IN SCAR CITY

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by Will Fuller, Kairos-Milwaukie United Church of Christ

As we worship on Earth Day, 2012, we can take justifiable pride in the enormous improvements in the environmental consciousness of our congregations. We serve coffee in reusable cups, we insulate our buildings, install energy-efficient lighting, recycle our waste and landscape with sustainable plants. Our cars get ever-better mileage, our homes are greening, and our stewardship of the earth is enhanced with science and engineering unknown a few decades ago. We fight for environmental justice, for fair distribution of resources and strong protection of the least of these against environmental degradation, in stewardship of God’s abundant love for all the peoples on precious mother Earth.

And we rightly celebrate this abundance

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April 23rd, 2012 | Category: Environmental Concerns, Poverty, Racial Justice | Leave a comment

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY & THE ROOTS OF MIGRATION

Presented by Witness For Peace Northwest

 Monday, Nov. 7, Portland, OR 7 pm: St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 6835 SW 46th Ave.  Tuesday, Nov. 8, Corvallis, OR 4 pm: Westminster House, Oregon State University, 101 NW 23rd.  Tuesday, Nov. 8, Eugene, OR 7 pm: Friends Meeting House, 2274 Onyx St.  Wednesday, Nov. 9, Portland, OR 7 pm: Lewis & Clark College, 0615 Southwest Palatine Hill Road, Public welcome

Eleazar Garcia will address the devastating impacts the North American Free Trade Agreement has had on the Mexican countryside, including an abandonment of traditional sustainable ways of life of small farmers, as well as a boom in rural Mexican migration to the United States. Speaking from his experience of seeing this

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November 3rd, 2011 | Category: Environmental Concerns, Food Scarcity, Immigration Rights | Leave a comment

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

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A Warning to the Future

Presented by Kayo Uejima, Doctoral Student, Kumamoto University, Co-chair of UNESCO Asia/Pacific Region Working Group 3

Wednesday August 10th, 7:00 pm at Epworth United Methodist Church, 1333 SE 28th Ave, Portland, OR. (Near 28th & Madison, 1 block north of Hawthorne).

Suggested Donation of $5:00-$10:00 to go to Tsunami/Fukushima relief. No one turned away for lack of funds.

How bad is the Fukushima nuclear disaster? Could it be as bad as or worse than Chernobyl? How is this disaster still unfolding, and why are we not getting the full story in the media? Could a similar disaster happen here in America? In her presentation, Kayo Uejima will address the current status of the Fukushima

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August 3rd, 2011 | Category: Environmental Concerns, Peace & Justice | Leave a comment