Category: USA

• Solidarity with South Koreans 🇰🇷

  

  A summary of the last week in South Korea and an invitation to express your solidarity with the Korean people. We need each other! #Solidarity #Justice #Peace #Participation #Democracy

  Jennie

  December 10, 2024

  Advocacy, Jennie’s Posts, Korea, Solidarity, USA

  Advocacy, Defend Democracy, Democracy, Democracy Movement, Dictator Prevention, Insurrection, Korea, Korean Diaspora, Martial Law, Military Rule, National Assembly, news, politics, President, Seoul, Solidarity, South Korea, south-korea, southkorea

• U.S. Disregard for the Rule of Law

  

  The United States’ Senate failed to block offensive weapons sales to Israel, disregarding U.S. law to block weapons sales to nations that violate human rights or prevent delivery of U.S. humanitarian aid. #USA #Israel #Gaza #Weapons #Senate #Failure #RuleOfLaw #WarCrime

  Jennie

  November 21, 2024

  Advocacy, Israel-Palestine, Militarism, USA, Video

  Failure, Gaza, Israel, Rule of Law, Senate, USA, War Crime, Weapons

• Saving Civilian Lives

  

  Cross-posting this email received from Mubarak Awad, founder of Nonviolence International, with more from me afterward. Wednesday, we are expecting to see Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) in the US Senate blocking offensive arms sales to Israel to be brought to the floor by Senator Sanders – and supported by Senators Merkley, Schatz, Welch, Van…

  Jennie

  November 19, 2024

  Advocacy, Cross-Posts, Israel-Palestine, Jennie’s Posts, Militarism, Nonviolence International, Poetry, USA

  Civilian Casualties, Gaza, Israel, Nonviolence, Save Lives

• Reflections on the Catholic Korea Peace Forum, part 3

  

  Kenneth Boggess, from the United States, offers his reflections on this October’s Catholic Korea Peace Forum in South Korea.

  Jennie

  November 14, 2024

  Catholic Institute for Northeast Asia Peace, Catholic Korea Peace Forum, Cross-Posts, Korea, USA

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• Reflections on the Catholic Korea Peace Forum, part 1

  

  This year’s Catholic Korea Peace Forum was held from October 16-20th with the participation of young adults from South Korea, the U.S., and Japan. Reporter Hyunjin Jung reports from Catholic News Here and Now.

  Jennie

  November 7, 2024

  Catholic Institute for Northeast Asia Peace, Catholic Korea Peace Forum, Church, Cross-Posts, Korea, USA

  activism, Build Peace, Catholic, Catholic Church, End War, Japan, Korea, Korean War, North Korea, Peace, South Korea, USA, Young People, Youth

• Meditations on Election Day

  

  Cross-posting these words from Bob Ekblad, biblical meditations for Christians on the United States’ election day. #Election #Meditation #Christian #President #Trump #Harris #Jesus

  Jennie

  November 5, 2024

  Bob Ekblad, Church, Cross-Posts, Jesus’ Way, Nationalism, Trauma Healing, USA

  election, Harris, Jesus, President, Trump, United States

• Radical Humility

  

  Bob Ekblad and Philemon of Gaza invite Christians to meditate upon the humility of Jesus in light of the United States’ current political environment.

  Jennie

  November 2, 2024

  Bob Ekblad, Cross-Posts, Jesus’ Way, USA

  election, Harris, humility, Jesus, Philemon of Gaza, political movement, politics, religious movement, Trump, United States

• Americans, we have a choice.

  

  This is not a drill. Some of my thoughts on ‘the enemy within’ and the choice America faces.

  Jennie

  November 1, 2024

  Jennie’s Posts, Jesus’ Way, Militarism, Nonviolence, USA

  Christian, election, enemy within, Harris, Imago Dei, love, Military, Nonviolence, prayer, Scapegoat, Trump, United States, violence

• Jesus’ Response to Violence

  

  Jesus’ encounter with Judas and his healing of the Jewish High Priest’s servant at his arrest offer a life-giving alternative to the warring factions in the Middle East, Christian supporters of the State of Israel now, and partisan hatred as the US moves towards its presidential election. Cross-post from Bob Ekblad.

  Jennie

  October 31, 2024

  Bob Ekblad, Cross-Posts, Israel-Palestine, Jesus’ Way, Nationalism, USA

  betrayal, bible, christianity, Harris, Israel, Jesus, judas, Trump, US Election, USA, violence, war

• Our Church Needs to be at the Table of Peace

  

  Crossposting this Video letter on Nuclear Disarmament from Archbishop John C. Wester, from the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico, which he sent to the Catholic Worker National Gathering in Chicago, Oct. 4-6 2024.

  Jennie

  October 29, 2024

  Catholic Worker, Church, Nuclear Disarmament, USA, Video

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