Motivated by Love, Moved to Action
Advocate
How To Resources
Advocacy 101 from the Ignatian Solidarity Network: ignatian-advocacy/Ignatian-Advocacy-101-Ignatian-Solidarity-Network-Jesuit-Conference.pdf
Advocacy Amplified Training Series from the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas: sistersofmercy.org/mercy-for-justice/advocacy-amplified-resource-page
Just Faith offers Just Action! How to Advocate and Mobilize for Justice
Action Areas
Peace & Nonviolence
Join Churches for Peace in the Middle East: Mondays, Community Calls to Congress
Pax Christi USA, the Catholic Advisory Council of Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), Franciscan Action Network, and the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns are co-sponsoring a new open letter from Catholics expressing our anguish over the ongoing violence in Israel-Palestine.
Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN)—restorative justice and abolition of the death penalty: prayer, learning, and action.
Act now to Urge President Joe Biden to honor the sanctity of life by commuting the sentences of the 40 individuals currently on federal death row.
Ecological Conversion
Groups we work with:
Seneca Lake Guardian—fighting against the expansion of Seneca Meadows Landfill (among other things!)
Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation working to support Indigenous sovereignty and defend endangered species & sacred ecosystems in Genesee County.
Act now! The Genesee County STAMP (Science Techology Advanced Manufacturing Park) project is a new industrial park to the west of the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge and the Tonwawanda Seneca Nation's Big Woods. There have been hazardous spills related to a pipeline going through the Nation's land, and a larger threat to wildlife. STAMP violates the historic Treaty of Canandaigua agreement and is being carried out without proper consultation with the Nation’s Council of Chiefs. The Nation and its allies call on Federal and State officials to stop the construction of the STAMP site. Express your support for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.
Human Trafficking
Here’s a few things you can do:
Share the information (above) with your network of friends, faith community and contacts.
Review and share these educational resources:
Interfaith Toolkit, compiled by the Washington Inter-Religious Staff Community Working Group on Human Trafficking
Educational Resources and Curriculum from U.S. Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking
Additional Resources and important websites
Pray
A Prayer for Leadership from Joan Chittister
Give us, O God,
leaders whose hearts are large enough
to match the breadth of our own souls
and give us souls strong enough
to follow leaders of vision and wisdom.
In seeking a leader, let us seek
more than development for ourselves—
though development we hope for—
more than security for our own land—
though security we need—
more than satisfaction for our wants—
though many things we desire.
Give us the hearts to choose
the leader who will work with other leaders
to bring safety to the whole world.
Give us leaders
who lead this nation to virtue
without seeking to impose
our kind of virtue
on the virtue of others.
Give us a government
that provides for the advancement
of this country
without taking resources from others
to achieve it.
Give us insight enough ourselves
to choose as leaders those who can tell
strength from power,
growth from greed,
leadership from dominance,
and real greatness
from the trappings of grandiosity.
We trust you, Great God,
to open our hearts to learn
from those to whom you speak
in different tongues
and to respect the life and words
of those to whom you entrusted
the good of other parts of this globe.
We beg you, Great God,
give us the vision as a people
to know where global leadership truly lies,
to pursue it diligently,
to require it to protect human rights
for everyone everywhere.
We ask these things, Great God,
with minds open to your word
and hearts that trust in your eternal care.
Amen.
This prayer by Joan Chittister is available as a FREE download online through the store at joanchittister.org
First Friday Prayer Vigils
On the First Friday of each month, Catholic Mobilizing Network invites you to a virtual prayer vigil, a sacred space to lament upcoming executions and bear witness to the sanctity of all human life. Join us to stand in solidarity with people facing execution, their victims, and all who are impacted by the unjust system of capital punishment. Register here.