The quote at the bottom of March in our desktop calendar has been striking to me all month as the pandemic continues to unfold. Now that we've just turned the page to April I wanted to post it here:
"Weaving involves two threads, one horizontal and the other vertical... Our broken, suffering world is bound together by fragile threads that, together with others, we can strengthen."
Each of us shares responsibility for the protection and care of the most vulnerable, especially our children. Globally, children find themselves in places of increasing risk, facing the challenges of migration, poverty, violence and unequal access to educational opportunities.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writes, “When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.” (Georgetown, 2016). The JPIC Calendar for March invites you to explore the lives and initiatives of those who made it possible for women to sit on Supreme Court today and who continue to fight to overcome the systematic sexism that still exists in Canada and the United States.
Stuart Center and Guest House join together to provide education and information for leadership of Catholic religious and clergy in the prevention, understanding, intervention and treatment of addiction. Learn more and register here.
Harriet Tubman reminds us “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
With the attached JPIC Calendar for February and for Black History Month, we invite you to explore the lives of those who found the strength, patience and passion to change the world– yesterday and today.
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
“The scale of human trafficking is atrocious...We have to raise our voices for them. That means confronting the social and economic conditions that abet this crime..” – former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
You will find the description of the position attached. Please forward this to candidates who meet the criteria listed and whose passion for our mission and the work of the stuartcenter.org makes them a good candidate.
If you have questions, need additional information, or wish to submit a letter of interest please send an email to jobs@stuartcenter.org
We are pleased to announce the 2020 Border Witness Program in McAllen, Texas, the US side of the border with Reynosa, Mexico. The Border Witness Program provides a powerful, first-hand look at the human experience behind the issues as well as a critical, analytical look at the systemic issues contributing to the complexity of migration and immigration at the US-Mexico border.
Universal Human Rights Month
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. [...] Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month
"As family of the Sacred Heart, we are called to respond “as One Body,” drawing from our charism and mission as educators. This means growing in a shared vision that allows us to understand the complexity of the political, economic, and social systems that confront us; increasing awareness of how we ourselves may be complicit in injustice; and deepening practices rooted in an integral ecology." (Artisans of Hope 1)