Sisters offended by ‘41’ billboard

On Aug. 19, the Fond du Lac Reporter published an article about a billboard that appears along Interstate 41 in Oshkosh noting that the content of the sign is unusual for this stretch of highway. The billboard depicts Mount Rushmore, but not with images of our founding fathers. Instead, Mao Zedong, Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin are portrayed next to President Barack Obama. The tagline reads, “My real father’s dream. Search it” and invites passersby to visit the website InfoWars.com. Read more.

STOP Trafficking

The August issue focuses on the Trafficking in Person Report from the State Department. It also has information about trafficking in the extractive industry and in armed conflict situations. Finally, Amnesty International, in its most recent meeting, adopted a resolution supporting the decriminalization of sex-work. Read in this issue WHY some anti-human trafficking advocates consider this decision to be a MISTAKE.

Clean Power Plan

Members of Congress are trying to halt a national carbon standard. Tell them where you stand.  
A national carbon standard for power plants will help mitigate climate change. The U.S. bishops support a national carbon standard. Click here and encourage your legislators to do the right thing.

Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

 
Associates, Sisters and friends of the Sisters of St. Agnes commemorated the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at their motherhouse. The prayer service included floating lighted tea lights into the Peace Pond, readings, signing a a petition to mayorsforpeace.org.

Click here to see the video

Here are some photos.

2015 Trafficking in Persons Report

 

2015 Trafficking in Persons Report

This week the State Department released its report which ranks countries’ efforts to defend human rights, especially of the victims of human trafficking. 

This year’s theme addresses the global supply chain.  Secretary John Kerry recognized CNN’s Freedom Project which has been shining a light on modern slavery.

The New Abolitionism

We need to become "The New Abolitionists." As we work to abolish modern slavery, we also need to work for the abolition of fossil fuel extraction. The future of our planet depends on a total transformation of our fossil-fuel dependent economy.

Before the cannons fired at Fort Sumter, the Confederates announced their rebellion with lofty rhetoric about “violations of the Constitution of the United States” and “encroachments upon the reserved rights of the States.” Read more.

International Energy Agency: World’s Fossil Fuel Companies Risk Billions of Dollars of Investment

 

Eliminating subsidies for fossil fuel companies would be a game-changer for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. 

Energy companies are making a ‘strategic mistake’ and could waste billions of dollars of investment by thinking they are immune to climate policy, says IEA chief economist Fatih Birol. Read more.