Oppression

Oppression

by Will Fuller, Kairos-Milwaukie United Church of Christ

At our last Justice & Witness Ministry meeting, each person listed the areas of justice where he or she felt special passion. The list was long and varied: racism, child abuse, sexual and gender-diverse marriage, hunger, homelessness, human trafficking, hate crimes, Jubilee, legacies of empire in the Philippines, Haiti, environmental survival.

Varied as the passions were, they had a common theme of oppression. A set of people is deprived of life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness so that the oppressor may have these in excess. More than marketplace success or greed, oppression is a system of enrichment akin to the Devil’s offer to Jesus on the mountaintop, “all the

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August 8th, 2011 | Category: Native American Issues, Racial Justice | One comment

The Celilo Indian Education Program (CIEP)

Celilo

by Denise Andersen, Clackamas United Church of Christ Published on July 11, 2011

Caitlin Andersen continues her work at the Celilo Indian Village in the Columbia River Gorge. She is the only teacher at the new Village school, which was completed in the summer of 2009, just in time for her to teach three weeks of summer school on site. She is in the midst of her third year of summer school at the Celilo Village School. The program is funded in part by grants from the Central Pacific Conference of the UCC and national Neighbors in Need. This enables Caitlin to work five days a week with Native American children in Celilo

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July 23rd, 2011 | Category: Native American Issues | One comment