SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES Economic justice issues are the focus of OSJ's work, and receive the bulk of our attention when doing legislative advocacy. We also monitor a number of other domestic and international issues. See below for resources related to: OSJ's Issue Priorities Broad Index of Justice Issues Fact Sheets on Select Justice Issues OSJ's Issue Action Teams Action Alerts OSJ's Issue Priorities Budget: Federal and StateGlobal WarmingHealth CareHousing and HomelessnessImmigrationWelfare Budget: Federal and State101 Economic Facts That Every American Should Know Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesEconomic Policy InstituteMN Budget ProjectMN Department of FinanceHealth Care OSJ's Health Care Action Team flier"Health Care for the Uninsured" Report by U.S. Bishops U.S. Bishops "Health Care for All" Campaign BrochureNational Coalition on Health Care website MN Legislative Reference Library website on health care Housing and Homelessness Housing Minnesota Legislative Summary on Housing Minneapolis Condo Conversions CampaignCommonBond CommunitiesFederal Housing Assistance Tutorial (PowerPoint presentation)Housing Cuts in MN State Budget Affordable Housing Charts: Working Doesn't Always Pay... MICAH - Metro Interfaith Coalition for Affordable Housing Minnesota Housing Partnership Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless National Low Income Housing Coalition National Coalition for the Homeless National Housing Conference Immigration 2006 USCCB Labor Day Statement on Immigration and WorkCatholic Relief Services: Take Action Online! Immigration Fact Sheet Justice for Immigrants (also available in Spanish)Justice for Immigrants Parish Campaign materialsUSCCB Office of Migration and Refugee Services Immigration Policy News Immigration ForumArchbishop Flynn Welcomes ImmigrantsThe New Minnesotans: How Are They Doing in Economic Terms? WelfareChild Care Fact Sheet Affirmative Options CoalitionAmerican Public Human Services Association Center for Law and Social Policy Children's Defense Fund Child Welfare League Broad Index of Justice Issues Africa -- AIDS Budget -- Federal and State Campaign Finance Reform Children and Child CareCitizenship Criminal Justice Death PenaltyEnvironmental Justice Health Care Housing/Homelessness Hunger Immigration ReformJust WagesLabor RightsLandminesMinimum WagePovertyPredatory Lending Racial Justice Socially Responsible InvestingSweatshop LaborTax Justice Third World DebtWarWelfare Africa - AIDS CrisisDATA OrganizationU.S. Bishops: A Call to Solidarity with Africa Catholic Relief Services initiativesMap of AIDS in Africa World AIDS Day 2005 Campaign Finance ReformNational Campaign Finance Reform Overview Open Secrets -- guide to the money in U.S. elections Children and Child CareChild Care Works Legislative Summary on Child Care CitizenshipEucharist: A Source of Healing and Unity, Not Political Judgments, by Archbishop Harry FlynnFaithful Citizenship: A Catholic Call to Political Responsibility Criminal Justice Resources for Criminal Justice Month (October)The Sentencing Project Criminal Justice Policy Foundation National Center on Institutions and Alternatives Death PenaltyUS Bishops' Statement: "A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death"Statements by Individual Bishops and State Catholic ConferencesOther statements on capital punishmentCatholics Against Capital Punishment Moratorium Campaign National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Article by Archbishop Flynn Global DevelopmentCatholic Campaign Against Global Hunger (March 2007 Update)Catholic Campaign Against Poverty Parish Resource KitCatholic Campaign Against Poverty Advent MaterialsMaryknoll Office for Global ConcernsBackground on Millenium Challenge AccountU.S. Bishops' 1997 Statement: Called to Global SolidarityCRS & USCCB's Catholic Campaign Against Global Poverty EnvironmentCongregations Caring for CreationQuotes from Catholic Social TeachingFranciscan Office for Social Justice Statement on WaterFranciscan Office for Social Justice Booklet on Global Warming HungerFood Fast: A Hunger Resource for YouthHunger No More: Faces Behind the Facts (DVD/VHS)Catholic Relief Services Bread for the World Food First Food Research and Action Center World Hunger and Poverty - Oxfam America Just WagesJobs Now Coalition Catholic teaching on worker rights Low Wage Workers Fact SheetWake Up Walmart Labor Rights 2006 USCCB Labor Day Statement on Immigration and WorkCatholic teaching on work and workers' rightsInterfaith Worker Justice Catholic Labor Network Fact sheet on farmworkers LandminesThe Legacy of Landmines Unicef -- LandminesUNICEF - Land-mines: A deadly inheritance International Committee of the Red Cross campaign against landminesInternational Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)Save the ChildrenOneWorld.net’s guide to landmines Minimum WageLow Wage Workers Fact Sheet Poverty Poverty in America: A Threat to the Common Good (Catholic Charities USA)Catholic Campaign Against Poverty Parish Resource KitCatholic Campaign Against Poverty Advent Materials2008 Federal Poverty GuidelinesCatholic Campaign for Human DevelopmentPoverty USA: America's Forgotten State Poverty Quiz Poverty Tour: A Budgeting ExerciseQuotes from Catholic Social Teaching: Poverty Call to Renewal - People of Faith Overcoming Poverty Center on Budget & Policy Priorities Children's Defense Fund Institute for Research on Poverty Joint Center for Poverty Research U.S. Census statistics on poverty and much more Predatory LendingPredatory Lending Resource CenterACORNRacial JusticeArchbishop Flynn's Pastoral on RacismU.S. Bishops' pastoral letter on racism The Church and Racism - Vatican statement Racism and Metropolitan Dynamics: The Civil Rights Challenge of the 21st Century Racial Justice and Regional Equity Project Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice Examining the Relationship Between Housing and Education Socially Responsible InvestingU.S. Bishops Statement Social Investment Forum Calvert Group Calvert Group's Criteria for Social InvestmentPax World Fund Social Funds Domini Social Investments Good Money Co-Op America SweatshopsNational Labor Committee HomepageSweatshop Watch UniteCORPORATE WATCHUNICEF -- Children and Their RightsUNICEF -- United Nations Children's Fund Tax Justice101 Economic Facts That Every American Should Know Citizens for Tax Justice - NationalMinnesota Budget ProjectMinnesota Tax Rankings -- a must read! Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesCenter for Economic Policy and ResearchUnited for a Fair Economy Economic Policy Institute Third World DebtOur background page on debt2003 Foreign Aid Fact SheetBishops' 1999 Statement: A Jubilee Call for Debt ForgivenessCatholic Campaign on DebtJubilee USA Network Urban DisparitiesStatement by Twin Cities religious leaders CenterEdge Project -- Archdiocese of HartfordWarCost of War CalculatorLebanon/Israel conflict: Archbishop Flynn Urges Cease-Fire in the Holy LandIraq: See our special page on Iraq -- with links to U.S. Bishops' Statements and other resourcesMilitary Draft: Draft Counseling Guidelines from the Catholic Peace FellowshipPax Christi USA
SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES
Economic justice issues are the focus of OSJ's work, and receive the bulk of our attention when doing legislative advocacy. We also monitor a number of other domestic and international issues. See below for resources related to:
Budget: Federal and State101 Economic Facts That Every American Should Know Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesEconomic Policy InstituteMN Budget ProjectMN Department of FinanceHealth Care OSJ's Health Care Action Team flier"Health Care for the Uninsured" Report by U.S. Bishops U.S. Bishops "Health Care for All" Campaign BrochureNational Coalition on Health Care website MN Legislative Reference Library website on health care
Housing and Homelessness Housing Minnesota Legislative Summary on Housing Minneapolis Condo Conversions CampaignCommonBond CommunitiesFederal Housing Assistance Tutorial (PowerPoint presentation)Housing Cuts in MN State Budget Affordable Housing Charts: Working Doesn't Always Pay... MICAH - Metro Interfaith Coalition for Affordable Housing Minnesota Housing Partnership Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless National Low Income Housing Coalition National Coalition for the Homeless National Housing Conference Immigration 2006 USCCB Labor Day Statement on Immigration and WorkCatholic Relief Services: Take Action Online! Immigration Fact Sheet Justice for Immigrants (also available in Spanish)Justice for Immigrants Parish Campaign materialsUSCCB Office of Migration and Refugee Services Immigration Policy News Immigration ForumArchbishop Flynn Welcomes ImmigrantsThe New Minnesotans: How Are They Doing in Economic Terms? WelfareChild Care Fact Sheet Affirmative Options CoalitionAmerican Public Human Services Association Center for Law and Social Policy Children's Defense Fund Child Welfare League
Africa - AIDS CrisisDATA OrganizationU.S. Bishops: A Call to Solidarity with Africa Catholic Relief Services initiativesMap of AIDS in Africa World AIDS Day 2005
Campaign Finance ReformNational Campaign Finance Reform Overview Open Secrets -- guide to the money in U.S. elections
Children and Child CareChild Care Works Legislative Summary on Child Care CitizenshipEucharist: A Source of Healing and Unity, Not Political Judgments, by Archbishop Harry FlynnFaithful Citizenship: A Catholic Call to Political Responsibility
Criminal Justice Resources for Criminal Justice Month (October)The Sentencing Project Criminal Justice Policy Foundation National Center on Institutions and Alternatives
Death PenaltyUS Bishops' Statement: "A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death"Statements by Individual Bishops and State Catholic ConferencesOther statements on capital punishmentCatholics Against Capital Punishment Moratorium Campaign National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Article by Archbishop Flynn
Global DevelopmentCatholic Campaign Against Global Hunger (March 2007 Update)Catholic Campaign Against Poverty Parish Resource KitCatholic Campaign Against Poverty Advent MaterialsMaryknoll Office for Global ConcernsBackground on Millenium Challenge AccountU.S. Bishops' 1997 Statement: Called to Global SolidarityCRS & USCCB's Catholic Campaign Against Global Poverty
EnvironmentCongregations Caring for CreationQuotes from Catholic Social TeachingFranciscan Office for Social Justice Statement on WaterFranciscan Office for Social Justice Booklet on Global Warming
HungerFood Fast: A Hunger Resource for YouthHunger No More: Faces Behind the Facts (DVD/VHS)Catholic Relief Services Bread for the World Food First Food Research and Action Center World Hunger and Poverty - Oxfam America
Just WagesJobs Now Coalition Catholic teaching on worker rights Low Wage Workers Fact SheetWake Up Walmart
Labor Rights 2006 USCCB Labor Day Statement on Immigration and WorkCatholic teaching on work and workers' rightsInterfaith Worker Justice Catholic Labor Network Fact sheet on farmworkers
LandminesThe Legacy of Landmines Unicef -- LandminesUNICEF - Land-mines: A deadly inheritance International Committee of the Red Cross campaign against landminesInternational Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)Save the ChildrenOneWorld.net’s guide to landmines Minimum WageLow Wage Workers Fact Sheet Poverty Poverty in America: A Threat to the Common Good (Catholic Charities USA)Catholic Campaign Against Poverty Parish Resource KitCatholic Campaign Against Poverty Advent Materials2008 Federal Poverty GuidelinesCatholic Campaign for Human DevelopmentPoverty USA: America's Forgotten State Poverty Quiz Poverty Tour: A Budgeting ExerciseQuotes from Catholic Social Teaching: Poverty Call to Renewal - People of Faith Overcoming Poverty Center on Budget & Policy Priorities Children's Defense Fund Institute for Research on Poverty Joint Center for Poverty Research U.S. Census statistics on poverty and much more
Predatory LendingPredatory Lending Resource CenterACORNRacial JusticeArchbishop Flynn's Pastoral on RacismU.S. Bishops' pastoral letter on racism The Church and Racism - Vatican statement Racism and Metropolitan Dynamics: The Civil Rights Challenge of the 21st Century Racial Justice and Regional Equity Project Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice Examining the Relationship Between Housing and Education
Socially Responsible InvestingU.S. Bishops Statement Social Investment Forum Calvert Group Calvert Group's Criteria for Social InvestmentPax World Fund Social Funds Domini Social Investments Good Money Co-Op America SweatshopsNational Labor Committee HomepageSweatshop Watch UniteCORPORATE WATCHUNICEF -- Children and Their RightsUNICEF -- United Nations Children's Fund Tax Justice101 Economic Facts That Every American Should Know Citizens for Tax Justice - NationalMinnesota Budget ProjectMinnesota Tax Rankings -- a must read! Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesCenter for Economic Policy and ResearchUnited for a Fair Economy Economic Policy Institute
Third World DebtOur background page on debt2003 Foreign Aid Fact SheetBishops' 1999 Statement: A Jubilee Call for Debt ForgivenessCatholic Campaign on DebtJubilee USA Network
Urban DisparitiesStatement by Twin Cities religious leaders CenterEdge Project -- Archdiocese of HartfordWarCost of War CalculatorLebanon/Israel conflict: Archbishop Flynn Urges Cease-Fire in the Holy LandIraq: See our special page on Iraq -- with links to U.S. Bishops' Statements and other resourcesMilitary Draft: Draft Counseling Guidelines from the Catholic Peace FellowshipPax Christi USA
