Faith And The City e.Newsletter
June 13, 2008
Volume 7, Issue 6
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Highlighted News
FATC TV forum on stewardship and water conservation
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Faith And The City
June 13, 2008
During June, Faith And The City Forum examines conservation natural resources in “Water Conservation: Only the Beginning (Parts 1 & 2).” The 30-minute dialogues are hosted by veteran journalist Steen “Newslady” Miles. Panelists for the conservation discussion are: Ms. Presian Burroughs, interim associate director, Georgia Interfaith Power and Light; Rev. Tony Lankford, pastor, Park Avenue Baptist Church; Rev. Canon Debra Shew, canon for community ministries, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta; and Dr. David Stooksbury, state climatologist and associate professor of engineering and atmospheric sciences, University of Georgia. The award-winning public affairs series airs fours days a week on Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters Cable TV Network.
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Conference at Mercer: Religious Faith, Torture, and Our National Soul
Mercer University Website
June 10, 2008
On September 11-12, 2008, Evangelicals for Human Rights, with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and Mercer University, will host a national summit on torture on the Atlanta Campus of Mercer University. You are invited to be a part of this examination of the journey of the United States, since September 11, 2001, from a nation that championed human rights to a nation that publicly acknowledges and supports the use of torture.
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Health
Ailing hospital reopens, but just barely
By Craig Schneider
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
May 27, 2008
This is a hospital as a ghost town. The emptiness, however, belies a surprising amount of action going on behind the scenes. Southwest Atlanta Hospital is a place haunted by its past; the biggest surprise may be that it is open at all.
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Faith and Politics
Candidates should hear evangelicals
By William McKenzie
Dallas Morning News
May 13, 2008
What shook the earth last week in Washington wasn't the president, Congress or anything from the campaigns. Rather, it was a remarkable manifesto from a group of more than 100 evangelicals.
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Physical Environment
Brookings report: Area ranks in top third on carbon emissions list
By Julia Malone
Cox Washington Bureau
May 29, 2008
Washington —- Metro Atlanta, with its far-flung suburban neighborhoods, has a larger per person "carbon footprint" than denser cities, including Los Angeles and New York, a study by the Brookings Institution concludes.
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Wake up, America. We're driving toward disaster
By James Howard Kunstler
Washington Post
May 25, 2008
The public, and especially the mainstream media, misunderstands the "peak oil" story. It's not about running out of oil. It's about the instabilities that will shake the complex systems of daily life as soon as the global demand for oil exceeds the global supply.
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Education
Student loans start to bypass 2-year colleges
By Jonathan D. Glater
New York Times
June 2, 2008
Some of the nation’s biggest banks have closed their doors to students at community colleges, for-profit universities and other less competitive institutions, even as they continue to extend federally backed loans to students at the nation’s top universities.
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Social Environment
Media charged with sexism in Clinton coverage
By Katharine Q. Seelye and Julie Bosman
New York Times
June 13, 2008
Angered by what they consider sexist news coverage of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, many women and erstwhile Clinton supporters are proposing boycotts of the cable networks, putting up videos on a "Media Hall of Shame," starting a national conversation about sexism and pushing Mrs. Clinton's rival, Senator Barack Obama, to address the matter.
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Juan Crow: The Deep South's new second-class citizens
By Roberto Lovato
The Nation
May 15, 2008
Along with the almost daily arrests, raids and home invasions by federal, state and other authorities, newly resurgent civilian groups like the Ku Klux Klan, in addition to more than 144 new "nativist extremist" groups and 300 anti-immigrant organizations born in the past three years, mostly based in the South, are harassing immigrants as a way to grow their ranks.
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Poor whites are being conned
By Leonard Pitts
Orlando Sentinal
May 27, 2008
The white poor have been victims of a con job going back at least as far as the Civil War, when poor white men were used as cannon fodder for the right of rich white men….. My point is that race has often been used as a means of distracting and diverting the white poor.
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American exception: Unlike others, U.S. defends freedom to offend in speech
By Adam Liptak
New York Times
June 12, 2008
A couple of years ago, a Canadian magazine published an article arguing that the rise of Islam threatened Western values. The article’s tone was mocking and biting, but it said nothing that conservative magazines and blogs in the United States do not say every day without fear of legal reprisal. Things are different here. The magazine is on trial.
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‘Democracy in America is a series of narrow escapes, and we may
be running out of luck’
By Bill Moyers
AlterNet
May 17, 2008
We have fallen under the spell of money, faction, and fear, and the great American experience in creating a different future together has been subjugated to individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power – and to the claims of empire, with its ravenous demands and stuporous distractions.
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Global Issues
Debt cancellation a victory for the world
By Desmond Tutu
Baltimore Sun
May 7, 2008
Too many of the world's poor children needlessly starve or go without education because too many impoverished nations - even after the laudable debt relief provided to date - are still funneling scarce resources to multilateral banks instead of paying for needs at home.
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Events
Guidelines for Posting Events
Faith And The City posts brief event notices that must include a website address for additional information. Events should be concerned with faith, interfaith and public issues.
Aug. 3: “That All May Worship: Beyond the Ramp.” Conference on making houses of worship more accessible to people with disabilities. Interfaith Disability Network, Shepherd Center, and First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.
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Sep. 11-12: “Religious Faith, Torture, and Our National Soul.” National summit on torture. Evangelicals for Human Rights, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, and Mercer University.
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Additional Events: Visit the website of the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta at http://www.rccatl.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=108
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