Archive: Center for Social Justice
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KI Director Reflects on 125th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
Exactly 125 years ago, in 1891, the industrializing world was going through a traumatic transformation that should seem familiar to us today: new technologies were transforming work; people were being uprooted by economic process from the lands of their birth and their traditional ways of life and drawn to the centers of the new economy, fleeing the collapsing worlds their parents had known and seeking new and better ones; millions of immigrants, emigrants, and migrants were crossing borders and seeking new homes; cities were growing and their problems were multiplying; tensions were emerging as cultures clashed; xenophobia was ignited (in the US it took the form of the American Protective Association, which sought to ban Catholic immigrants to this country); inequality was surging as some reaped enormous, unprecedented, and obscene profits from the new economy while others suffered egregious exploitation.
Categories: Events, Just Employment Policy, Our Staff
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Rerum Novarum: Worker Justice in the Church and on Campus
This year marks the 125th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum (new window), Pope Leo XIII’s pivotal 19th century encyclical that laid the foundation for Catholic teaching on labor and the dignity of work. More than a century later, these principles remain profoundly relevant to our society and our campus community on the Hilltop.
Categories: Events, Just Employment Policy
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Meet the Worker Justice DC Leaders for 2017
We are delighted to introduce the student leaders for the 2017 Worker Justice DC alternative break program: Zackary Abu-Akeel and Vincent DeLaurentis! Both are former WJDC participants who are returni
Categories: Student Leaders, Worker Justice DC
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Meet Our 2015-2016 ILP Coordinators for Limited Purpose Driver's Licenses
The Kalmanovitz Initiative is excited to have Laura Padilla, Carolyn Vilter, and Austin Rose as our ILP coordinators for the Limited Purpose Driver's License Project! They have been working closely w
Categories: Immigration and Labor Project, Student Leaders
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Reflecting on a Weekend of Worker Justice in Pittsburgh
[caption id="attachment_3387" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Photo Credit: Morgan Currier[/caption] Georgetown University students Esmi Huerta and Cassidy Jensen recently travelled to Pittsburgh, w
Categories: Anti-Sweatshop Sourcing, Just Employment Policy, Student Leaders
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Apply for Worker Justice DC Alternative Spring Break 2016
Led by our awesome trip leaders Laura Fairman and Lily Ryan, students on WJDC 2016 will immerse themselves in the DC community to work, learn, and reflect in solidarity with workers, community organiz
Categories: Student Leaders, Worker Justice DC
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DC Schools Project Practices True Student-Worker Solidarity
[caption id="attachment_3090" align="aligncenter" width="885"] Katherine Leopold (SFS '18) with Tackie Memuna, a long-serving Facilities worker at Georgetown.[/caption] Anastasia Sendoun (COL '18) an
Category: Student Leaders
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Beyond Gay Marriage: Race, Class and the Future of the LGBTQ Movement
The over-arching goal of the discussion is to shed light upon other intersectional issues that are not regularly at the fore-front of the LGBTQ Rights Movement, but do have a great toll on our LGBTQ population globally. These intersections include socio-economic status/class, ability, immigrant status, race, and gender-related issues (to name a few).
Category: Events