Here are this week’s news notes:
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| Dr. Kathy Friedman |
• We are sad to report the passing of long-time member and
friend of CESJ, Dr. Kathy Friedman, on August 13th. Kathy had fought a
six-month battle with cancer after it was first diagnosed in February. Kathy joined CESJ in 1986, when she was
working in the office of U.S. Representative Louis Stokes (D-OH). She had
learned of the President Ronald Reagan’s Presidential Task Force on Project
Economic Justice, a congressionally mandated bipartisan task force that had
been spearheaded by CESJ members in 1985.
Kathy assisted the Task Force as an editorial advisor for its
orientation book, Every Worker an Owner, which was translated into
Polish with 40,000 copies distributed through the Polish Solidarity network and
later presented to Pope John Paul II. She
contributed an article, “Capital Credit: The Ultimate Right of Citizenship,” to
the compendium Curing World Poverty: The New Role of Property,
co-published by Social Justice Review and CESJ in 1994. Kathy earned her undergraduate degree from
Cornell University, and her graduate degree in sociology from the University of
North Carolina. Her Ph.D. thesis, Legitimation of Social Rights
and the Western Welfare State: A Weberian Perspective, was published by the
University of North Carolina Press. She
taught at the University of Washington and Tulane University. Following her tenure on Capital Hill, Kathy
had a long and productive career at the U.S. Census Bureau. Kathy moved to Lake
Placid, New York, following her retirement. She remained a close friend to
other “CESJ old-timers”, and followed our Just Third Way news with enthusiastic
interest and continued commitment. We
will deeply miss Kathy.
• Remember the
“communist crucifix”? There’s a new
article on the subject from a Just Third Way Perspective, “ ‘No Es Bien’,”
on the “Catholic365” website. This joins
“Justice Without Rights?”, and “Putting
Pope Francis in Perspective.”
Feel free to read, share, and otherwise distribute through your social
media networks.
• The editing and translation of the blog series on the
Greek debt crisis for publication in the journal of the National Bank of Poland
is proceeding apace. The
editor/translator expects to have his work finished and published as early as
September. At that time we plan on
creating an “official” English version from which other translations can be
made.
• CESJ’s Director of Research has joined the Catholic
Special Interest Group (“SIG”) of American Mensa, and has already participated
in a number of discussions applying the Just Third Way within that milieu.
• Plans are proceeding to attend the World Meeting of
Families in Philadelphia in September.
We have heard (unofficially, of course) that individuals connected with
some of the political campaigns for president might be attending, and it might
be possible to catch an eye or two.
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 41 different countries and 47 states and provinces in the United
States and Canada to this blog over the past two months. Most visitors are from
the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Poland, and the Netherlands. The
most popular postings this past week were “Halloween Horror Special XIII: Mean
Green Mother from Outer Space,” “Solving the Greek Debt Crisis, VIII: Specific
Monetary Reforms,” “Solving the Greek Debt Crisis, VII: Property and Money,”
“Thomas Hobbes on Private Property,” and “The Population Bomb.”
Those are the happenings for this week, at least those that
we know about. If you have an
accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a note about it at
mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into the next
“issue.” If you have a short (250-400
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