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Faith & The Labor Movement: May 2015
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Faith and The Labor Movement. This blog seeks to explore issues around Faith and the Labor Movement historically and presently. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. The Working Catholic: Food Processing by Bill Droel. By Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) is a standard on high school summer reading lists; that is, for those high schools that still expect education to occur beyond the classroom. It was first published in serial form in 1905 for a Kansas City weekly newspaper, Appeal To Reason. Chicago’s Union Stockyards ...
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Faith & The Labor Movement: October 2014
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Faith and The Labor Movement. This blog seeks to explore issues around Faith and the Labor Movement historically and presently. Wednesday, October 29, 2014. The Working Catholic: Gifts That Keep Moving by Bill Droel. Thanksgiving, Part I. This past summer Oracle, Arizona reflected back to us two defining cultural images. In thanksgiving for a sturdy ship and for their discovery. By 1880 about 70 mines were staked in the area and a post office named Oracle opened to serve the workers. Finally, this image ...
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Faith & The Labor Movement: September 2014
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Faith and The Labor Movement. This blog seeks to explore issues around Faith and the Labor Movement historically and presently. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. The Working Catholic: Urban Revival and Suburban Poverty. The NY. Times. This trend of urban revival was first pointed out to me in the early 1980s when Ed Marciniak (1917-2004), legendary Catholic labor leader and urban character, suggested we go for a walk around Chicago’s South Loop. “The Loop [Chicago’s term for downtown. 8220;This is something l...
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Faith & The Labor Movement: July 2015
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Faith and The Labor Movement. This blog seeks to explore issues around Faith and the Labor Movement historically and presently. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. The Working Catholic: Free Choice? Rebecca Friedrichs doesn’t want to pay her union dues. And indeed, because our culture is premised on individualism some workers can now legally opt out of their dues. Or fair share service fee. Here are remedies Friedrichs might take:. So Friedrichs, like many people who disagree with one thing or another, got a lawye...
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Faith & The Labor Movement: July 2014
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Faith and The Labor Movement. This blog seeks to explore issues around Faith and the Labor Movement historically and presently. Thursday, July 24, 2014. THE PROCESSIONS – WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? Final posting on the Gate pilgrimage to Guatemala. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Perhaps for some of the tourists Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala is an experience of 16. Century pageantry. For others it is very personal. The personal message is easily accepted, but difficult to practice. To imitate the story of th...There are...
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Faith & The Labor Movement: The Working Catholic: Free Choice? by Bill Droel
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Faith and The Labor Movement. This blog seeks to explore issues around Faith and the Labor Movement historically and presently. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. The Working Catholic: Free Choice? Rebecca Friedrichs doesn’t want to pay her union dues. And indeed, because our culture is premised on individualism some workers can now legally opt out of their dues. Or fair share service fee. Here are remedies Friedrichs might take:. So Friedrichs, like many people who disagree with one thing or another, got a lawye...
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Faith & The Labor Movement: The Working Catholic: Hometown Brag by Bill Droel
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Faith and The Labor Movement. This blog seeks to explore issues around Faith and the Labor Movement historically and presently. Wednesday, July 15, 2015. The Working Catholic: Hometown Brag by Bill Droel. Political commentators derisively call it The Chicago Way. They refer to our machine-style politics. Its motto, of course, is Ubi est mea. It is accompanied by corruption and then jail time for some, including in recent years a Congressman and two Governors. These are the two primary characteristics of ...
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Faith & The Labor Movement: The Working Catholic: Action First by Bill Droel
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Faith and The Labor Movement. This blog seeks to explore issues around Faith and the Labor Movement historically and presently. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. The Working Catholic: Action First by Bill Droel. Young adults do not so much need a meaning in life as an experience of living. Despite or because of our cosmopolitan culture and global economy, too many young adults get caught up in a small circle of co-workers and friends while communicating mostly about small comings and goings. We can all benefit f...
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Faith & The Labor Movement: MOTHER EMANUEL
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Faith and The Labor Movement. This blog seeks to explore issues around Faith and the Labor Movement historically and presently. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. President Obama’s eloquent and moving eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney at the historic Emanuel amE. church in Charleston was healing balm for our grief and the festering open sore of racism in our country. Though she might forget, / I could never forget you. / (16) See, I have engraved you / On the palms of My hands, Your walls are ever before Me. The Je...
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