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Acting Into Justice Provokes New Ways of Thinking

Joe Mancini June 1, 2024

Pope Francis calls the beatitudes the path to joy and true happiness for all humanity. What is the work of shelter – it is walking with those who are left out, it is the call to be merciful, it is mourning those who die, it is seeking right action for those dispossessed. During these last five years, The Working Centre has walked with thousands dealing with homelessness, many of whom are caught in the concurrent cycle of mental health and addictions.

WRX Fundraising Adventure

Tessa Jennison June 1, 2018

Sometime in early January, local news ran a story on the impacts of sub-zero temperatures for homeless citizens in Waterloo Region. The shelters were beyond capacity, people were being sent to motels during frigid nights. Since the end of December there had been many bitterly cold nights.

A New Openness for Creative Action

Joe Mancini December 1, 2015

It seems as if the world is calling, in clearer and clearer language, on the need to build peaceful neighbourhoods, to welcome the stranger and to reduce the intensity of our carbon economy. It doesn’t take much to read the signs of the times these days as they intensely flash on every media outlet.

Axioms, Aphorisms, and Anecdotes for Activists

Jim Lotz September 1, 2009

By Jim Lotz Published in September 2009 “He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

David Suzuki – Maintaining Hope

Leslie Morgenson March 1, 2005

With the fiery passion one typically associates with youth, environmentalist David Suzuki, stood before a rapt audience on a cold January night and delivered his message. The strong words were nothing new, but what was striking was Suzuki’s continued enthusiastic hope. Hope, he said, is an essential ingredient to this work. Without sustainable activism we will not break the cycle of consumption that has become a way of life in the western world. People need to be “lifers” in their pursuit to save our sacred Earth. Giving up is just not an option.

The Unpopular Front for Personalist Democracy

Joe Mancini June 1, 2003

Mid-May was a big week for Personalism in Kitchener-Waterloo. The Record ran a feature story that included a two paragraph description of personalism as a run up to the St. Jerome’s University Conference on the Hidden Pierre Trudeau—his spirituality, his faith, his life, his times. Later in the week, a copy of the latest edition of the Catholic Worker from New York arrived. It featured a letter on the front page, written in 1938 by Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Worker, who concluded with the resolve to “continue to recruit members for the Unpopular Front for Personalist Democracy.”

Sustainable Living in Hawaii

Melanie Kramer September 1, 1999

Hawaii. Land of magic. A place where dreams are built and lives bounce to the daily tune of Rainbow Radio. It is a land of beauty and harsh realities, rich in history and culture, and I don’t mean the glorification of Captain Cook (the first westerner to invade Hawaii), although he is part of Hawaii’s history.

Declaration on Soil

Ivan Illich June 1, 1999

The ecological discourse on planet earth, global hunger, threats to life, urges us to look down at the soil, humbly. We stand on soil, not on earth. From soil we come, and to the soil we bequeath our excrements and remains. And yet soil— its cultivation and our bondage to it— is remarkably absent from those things clarified in our western tradition.

The Highway 7 extension would run through almost every wetland and woodlot between Kitchener and Guelph

Michael Parkinson March 1, 1999

If you have been following the Good Work News for the past few years, you will already be aware of the controversy surrounding plans from the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) to construct a brand new expressway between Kitchener and Guelph.

Dreams Come True

Ernst Ritzmann June 1, 1997

If you want your dreams to come true, you have to dream them. If you are going to reach your goals, you have to set and plan them. If you want to run around hoping for the very best out of every situation, well for goodness sake, please do. If you want to see the positives in everything, well, that would be a great way to use your mental energy.

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