The Worst-Blizzard-EVER
in the entire history of the human race (or, at least, this winter inside the
Washington, DC, Beltway . . . until the next one) managed to throw a monkey
wrench into our plans for today and the weekend, but the Just Third Way
continues to advance. In particular,
outreach continues, and new research materials continue to surface:
• Amazon Smile
program. To participate in the
Amazon Smile program for CESJ, go to https://smile.amazon.com/. Next, sign in to your account. (If you don’t have an account with Amazon,
you can create one by clicking on the tiny little link below the “Sign in using
our secure server” button.) Once you
have signed into your account, you need to select CESJ as your charity — and
you have to be careful to do it exactly this way: in the
space provided for “Or select your own charitable organization” type “Center for Economic and Social Justice
Arlington.” If you type anything
else, you will either get no results or more than you want to sift
through. Once you’ve typed (or copied
and pasted) “Center for Economic and
Social Justice Arlington” into the space provided, hit “Select” — and you
will be taken to the Amazon shopping site, all ready to go.
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| Irish Volunteers, April 1916 |
• Completely by chance, we located a rare copy of the Irish Times Sinn Féin Rebellion Handbook, published in 1917. The volume is not actually a “handbook,” but
an almanac of facts and figures compiled by the Irish Times from its news reports and other sources of the 1916
Easter Rising and aftermath. The book
will provide original source data for the CESJ-AOH joint project, an analysis
of the Rising from the standpoint of the Just Third Way. We have compiled an extraordinary amount of
original source material for this project, beginning with the first-hand
account of the father-in-law of a member of the local AOH Division, who was in
the General Post Office in Dublin, which served as headquarters for the Rising
from Monday, April 24, 1916, through Saturday, April 29, 1916.
• The CESJ first quarterly board meeting for Fiscal Year
2015 (October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016) was postponed from Monday, January
18, 2016 to Monday, January 25, 2016.
• Thanks to (another) “Snowmageddon-Storm-of-the-Century,”
the CESJ core group will not be attending the DC reception this evening after
today’s March for Life given by the Center for Ethics and Culture of Notre
Dame. We will try to schedule a telephone
conversation with the Associate Director and Father Edward Krause, a member of
the CESJ Board of Counselors.
• We sent an outreach letter to Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky of
the Arlington (Virginia) Diocese as a result of an article he published on the Crisis Magazine website, “Preparing
for the Apocalypse.” Father Pokorsky
raises a number of interesting questions, all of which can easily be addressed
by the Just Third Way.
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| James Larkin (1876-1947), co-founder, Irish Citizen Army |
• We also obtained a copy of Peter de Rosa’s account of the
Easter Rising, Rebels: The Irish Rising
of 1916. It looks good, except for
that photo of James Larkin, a socialist, on the cover. . . .
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 50 different countries and 45 states and provinces in the United
States and Canada to this blog over the past two months. Most visitors are from
the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and Turkey. The most
popular postings this past week in descending order were “Thomas Hobbes on
Private Property,” “The American Chesterton, XI: The Disciple of Common Sense,”
“The Purpose of Production,” “Aristotle
on Private Property,” and “Chicken Little Economics.”
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
word) comment on a specific posting, please enter your comments in the blog —
do not send them to us to post for you.
All comments are moderated, so we’ll see it before it goes up.
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