The stock market and Congress are
both getting extremely surreal, so we’ll leave commentary on both to the usual experts
who don’t let their lack of knowledge, consistency, or veracity interfere with
their opinions. Instead, what we’ll do
is look at the latest happenings in the Just Third Way:
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• “Explainer Video.” CESJ
has retained a video production company to produce a two-minute explainer video
on the Just Third way and prepare a PowerPoint presentation for a popular
audience. The video is targeted toward younger people
and might draw people in who want to help advance the Just Third Way.
• Relaunch of the CESJ Newsletter.
Dan Parker reports
that he is now ready for an official call for articles for the newsletter, not
to exceed 500 words, and reports of activities and projects, not to exceed 150
words. Dan will draft a letter asking
for submissions, giving guidelines, and explaining where and how to submit
pieces.
• Puerto Rico. Norman Kurland, CESJ’s
president, attended a panel discussion on the situation in Puerto Rico on
Wednesday evening. There were six
panelists, all of which were well-versed in the problems of the commonwealth,
but none of which had any solution other than redistribution. Norm went up to each of them after their
presentations and handed them material regarding the Just Third Way and its
potential for rebuilding the economy of the island in a way that benefits
everyone, not just an economic or political élite;
the San Juan Port Authority is the busiest in the Caribbean, and the ownership could
be expanded in a way to benefit everyone as well as take greater advantage of
the island’s unique position. Joe
Recinos said he would send a letter to the mayor of San Juan if the core group
would give him some points to cover; he could stress his connection with the
Solidarity movement in Central and South America. Myron Wilkerson, a friend of CESJ, said he
might have a contact for Puerto Rico, and asked about the possibility of tying
together Detroit, St. Louis, and Louisville in a single effort.
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• Past Intern/Fellow Update.
CESJ was pleased to hear from Astrid U., a CESJ Fellow from Belgium who
has been doing work in Africa. She is
considering relocating to Washington, DC and working for an international
agency there. She requested we be ready
to provide references of her experience and expertise, which is not a problem
as she was active in a number of key projects that got to some prime movers in
Africa, who were unfortunately unable to take advantage of the potential of the
Just Third Way due to the level of corruption and the unstable political
situation. Sasha M., CESJ’s most recent
intern from Alberta, Canada, is continuing her inputs to social media on behalf
of CESJ.
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• Barefoot University. Dawn Brohawn sent
a letter about the Just Third Way to Bunker Roy of Barefoot University in
India. He is now semi-retired but turned
the letter over to another individual who gave a positive response. We can answer the question where to get the
money to expand into the world market.
• South Africa. CESJ
received a letter
from lawyers with the Institute for Law and Economic Transformation in South
Africa. They want to use the law for
economic change and justice, and want to work with CESJ.
• Publications Progress Report. The manuscript of
What Happened to Social Justice is
currently in editing. It may be ready as
early as the end of October. The first
draft of the Ferree Compendium has been completed and has been submitted for
review. The rough draft of the book on
John Henry Newman and the act of social justice is approximately two-thirds
complete and has been posted on the blog.
The outline of a book on Institutional Restructuring is expected to be
completed by the end of September. A
chapter outline is scheduled for the end of December.
• Truth Be Told Newsletter. Mark Gross, O.P.,
plans to include CESJ material in Truth
Be Told, his revived newsletter, if he can find a sponsor. As the newsletter is primarily geared toward
Catholic Dominican spirituality and philosophy, CESJ cannot be a sponsor, but
Mark wants to include material on the Just Third Way as a continuing feature, his
interest being to show its consistency with Catholic social teaching and the
philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, possibly the most famous Dominican after St.
Dominic, the founder of the Order. Father
Edward Krause, C.S.C., Ph.D., is investigating the possibility of having his
organization, the Central Bureau of the Catholic Central Union (CCVS) in St. Louis,
Missouri, sponsor the newsletter, especially as the official journal of the
CCVA, Social Justice Review, has been
on hiatus. Mark says that Social Justice
Review was the inspiration for Truth Be Told, so it could be a very good fit.
• Shop online and support CESJ’s work! Did you know that by making
your purchases through the Amazon Smile
program, Amazon will make a contribution to CESJ? Here’s how: First, go to https://smile.amazon.com/. Next, sign in to your Amazon 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.
• Blog Readership. We have had visitors from 32 different countries
and 41 states and provinces in the United States and Canada to this blog over
the past week. Most visitors are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada,
India,, and Australia. The most popular
postings this past week in descending order were “(Another)
Global Debt Crisis,” “Initial
Success,” “News
from the Network, Vol. 11, No. 37,” “Just
Third Way Podcast, No. 34,” and “Oxford
Movement, Guerilla War Phase.”
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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