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Monthly Perspectives in 2010

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December 2010
The Death Penalty's Other Victims Successful Community Lending Pools for Women Reducing the Pentagon Budget Importance of Tax Credits for Low Income Families Connecting Poverty and Tax Giveaways

November 2010
Millennium Development Goals -- Signs of Progress! Fair Trade Activism Growing in Numbers and Effectiveness A Charter for Compassion Anti-nuclear Activists Keep Protesting Amidst 30th Anniversary Celebrating Re-imaging Detroit with Urban Farming

October 2010
Openness to Ideas Is Vital Integrating Faith and Ethics with Business Decision-making A Historic Step to End Wage Theft Countdown to Zero -- A Controversial Documentary Fair Trade Changes Systems and People's Lives

September 2010
Learning Resource Management from Indigenous Peoples Competing Visions of Security Are Rooted in Different Worldviews A Moral Imperative: Addressing Child Hunger Parallel Justice Project for Victims of Crimes Historic Vote to Shut Down Nuclear Power Plant

August 2010
Progress on Maternal Mortality Historic Health and Safety Summit to Protect Latino Workers Conditions for Rebuilding Haitian Society Roundup Herbicide Leads to Superweeds and Potential "Arms Race with Earth" Statistics That Teach Volumes

July 2010
Will We Learn from the Oil Spill? Comprehensive Immigration Reform Needed in Place of Problematic, Expensive Fence on the Border A Focus on Human Rights and Respect in Brand New Prison The Power of Money in Shaping Public Policy Activist Receives Award for Chapioning Forest Protection and Social Justice

June 2010
Millions Seriously Affected by Climate Change -- Even Now The Facts Matter in Role of Language and Narrative in Civic Discourse Father Louis Vitale, OFM, an SOA, Reflects from Prison Bishops Sound Alarm on Injustices in Amazon A Combatting Corruption while Providing Aid in Haiti

May 2010
Time to Act on Childhood Hunger Where Do Our Income Tax Dollars Go? Death Row Survivor Story Hghlights Wrongful Convictions Environmental Refugees: A Critical Challenge A Graced, Transforming Moment on Death Row

April 2010
Green Job Opportunities Pope's Call to Action: "To Cultivate Peace, Protect Creation" An Environmental Victory Building, Insulating, and Packaging with Fungi Nuclear Waste Processing Facility Charged with Environmental Racism

March 2010
The Power of Microlending Greening the Economy Helps Bring a Just, Sustainable Recovery Working to Promise Civil Discourse -- The Anchor of Democracy RA Reflection on Friendship with a Death Row Inmate Pope's Encyclical -- An Extraordinary Document Option

February 2010
Mistaken as Derelicts, Protesters Are Congratulated by Judge U.S. Military Budget an Affront to God and the Poor It's Time to Make Alternative Energy Cheaper, Not Fossil Fuels More Expensive Recession Provokes Reexamination of Values Dramatic Crime Reduction -- without Death Penalty Option

January 2010
A "Responsibility Revolution" Peace Movement Has Power to Enact Change Interfaith Groups Launch Poverty-oriented Climate Change Initiative Packing Inferno -- The Horror and Conflict of War Teaching Peace in the Classroom

Perspectives on Social Issues
Gratitude to the Institute for Peace and Justice
for use of their Pope Paul VIth graphic.