Yet another week filled with
important news and pivotal events for the Just Third Way:
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• Mark Your Calendar:
Gather with students, grassroots leaders and
concerned citizens on Friday, April 22, 2016 in
Washington, DC, for the 12th annual demonstration at the Federal Reserve in
Washington, D.C. Co-hosted by the Coalition for Capital
Homesteading and the Center for Economic and Social
Justice, the rally will run from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM,
starting on the mall side across the street from the Constitution
Ave. entrance of the Federal Reserve Building (between 20th and
21st Streets, NW).
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• 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.
• The files for Easter
Witness: From Broken Dream To A New Vision For Ireland were submitted to
the printer late last night.
Prepublication copies should be available from Amazon prior to April 24,
2016, the official release date — and the Centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin
in 1916. The book is a joint project of
CESJ and the Colonel John Fitzgerald Division Arlington County No. 1 of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians. While there
are many excellent works coming out that deal with the Rising, Easter Witness is unique in that it
concludes by offering a proposal by means of which the ideals expressed in the
“Easter Proclamation” read from the portico of the General Post Office in
Dublin around noon on Easter Monday 1916 can be realized for the benefit of
every child, woman, and man in Ireland, and make Ireland a model for the world.
• While there is no connection, within hours of submitting
the files for Easter Witness to the
printer, we got a call from the new Acquisitions Editor of a major Catholic
publisher who is interested in our particular Just Third Way analysis of
history, and who would like a list of possible projects as soon as it can be
prepared. CESJ’s approach is, of course,
interfaith, but it is consistent with the natural law basis of Catholic social
teaching, which accounts for the interest the Just Third Way generates among
thoughtful Catholics. Right off we can
think of a number of projects for which the research has already been done,
needing only some additional sources, review, and updating (and rewriting. . .
.) to create a marketable product.
• Recently we were contacted by a friend of CESJ,
Daniel Moorehouse, who edited the old Catholic
Men’s Quarterly before moving for a time to Chile. He has returned, and has started a new magazine
for boys, the Downtime Reader. According to the website, “[t]he Downtime
Reader for boys is distributed to every Catholic school in the
country. Each school receives one free copy, and all are invited to visit
us here to pre-order additional copies in increments of 50 at prices that make
it possible to use them in a variety of ways. The boys in your school and
wider community will enjoy the magazine and look forward to receiving each
issue. And you can rest easy in the knowledge that they are developing a
love for reading and research via safe and wholesome material.”
• In an interesting turn of events, the representative of a
group that has been somewhat critical of CESJ and the Just Third Way recently appeared to threaten (attorneys can't actually threaten or they could lose their licenses . . . but they can make something sound like a threat to the uninitiated) a media figure, Father Dwight Longenecker, that unless he
apologized, there might be Dire Consequences for remarking that the sort
of “verbal violence” into which members of the group sometimes lapse can lead
to physical violence. Here is Father Longenecker's "retraction." In
common with CESJ Counselors Father Edward Krause, Father John Trigilio, Father
Matthew Habiger, and the late Father John Miller, Father Longenecker has
appeared on EWTN, the well-known Catholic media network, concerning which the non-threatening attorney has made a number of non-admiring comments.
• Last evening Dr. Norman Kurland, president of CESJ, had a
very good meeting with a number of well-placed academics focusing on the
Abraham Federation as a possible solution to the conflicts in the Middle
East. Dr. David Weiner (Vice President
for Global Affairs at the University of Connecticut) hosted the meeting, which
took place at Marcel’s French/Belgian Restaurant in downtown Washington,
DC. Dr. Zaid Eyadat, who teaches at
Georgetown University, the University of Connecticut, and is a Dean at the University of
Jordan-Amman, helped set up the meeting and, with Dr. Ebtesam Ketbi, president
of the United Arab Emirates Policy Center, was very favorable to the Abraham
Federation as a “secular” (“civil” might be more accurate, but the word they
used was “secular”) solution to unite the people of the area. Mr. Roy Kemphausen of the University of
Connecticut and Dr. Odeh Aburdene, head of OAI Advisors, also attended.
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 53 different countries and 51 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, India, and Australia. The most
popular postings this past week in descending order were “Thomas Hobbes on
Private Property,” “A Field Guide for Heroes,” “The Crisis That Need Not Be,
IV: Rally at the Fed,” “Aristotle on Private Property,” and “The Crisis That
Need Not Be, I: A System Designed to Fail.”
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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