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Catholics for Peace and Justice of southeastern WI is an organization based on Catholic social principles. We support the Church's "consistent ethic of life," which begins with an understanding of God as our creator and human life as God's sacred gift. The dignity of all life must be respected from conception to natural death. We are concerned about the state of our nation and world. We see a world threatened by war, terrorism, growing economic inequality, environmental catastrophe, and divisions between religions, nations, races, genders, and ethnic groups. We call on Catholics, and all people of faith, to consider whether their political and economic beliefs and actions are reflective of their faith.     [Join Us] Immigration and Trafficking – On Which Side of the Fence Do You Stand? by Carl Malischke Our government refuses to give legal status to 42 percent of the dairy farm workforce here in Wisconsin!  That means that the milk you poured on your cereal this morning was brought to you by someone who is not authorized to provide it to you.  Yet without that worker the Wisconsin farmer would go out of business and you would not have your dairy products. Why would someone in Mexico travel a couple thousand miles to milk cows in Wisconsin? One-third of the entire population of the country of El Salvador, one-third, has left their country, and over 400 Salvadorans continue to leave each day, suffering an expensive and dangerous journey to get to the United States!  Why would one third of a nation’s population leave their homeland? Our immigration policy puts heavy emphasis on enforcement of existing law.  Because of that approach we’re spending billions of tax dollars on building and maintaining miles of walls on our southern border.  We now have over 17,000 Border Patrol agents along our Southern border at an annual cost of $2.7 billion dollars. As a result, human trafficking occurs in remote crossing points.  Immigrants cross the desert where many die of thirst and heat.  At least 5,607 deaths occurred between 1994 and 2008.   People are dying on our back porches, and we are shutting and locking the door, watching in silence from our kitchen table while we drink our coffee.  Read more...   Join the Catholics for Peace and Justice Common Ground Core Team Common Ground is a broad-based organization of organizations in Southeast Wisconsin whose leaders and members come from diverse racial, ethnic, religious, cultural and political backgrounds. What they share in common is the desire to achieve positive changes in our community.  Common Ground exists to build and support an organization to address Greater Milwaukee’s critical social issues in an effective, non-partisan way. By listening to over 1,400 people discuss their concerns including health care, education, jobs and economic development, crime, mental health, youth activities, immigration and housing Common Ground has prioritized areas of concern and developed initial action campaigns to address various aspects of these issues. We invite you to learn more about community organizing and advocating for change.  To get involved in Common Ground contact us at info@catholicsforpeaceandjutice.org	TAKE ACTION  R e t h i n k Afghanistan   Host a workshop at your parish Engage! Putting Your FAITH into ACTION Learn about the social teaching of the Church Support Fair Trade  Four Corners Store   Vets for Peace Milwaukee Catholics United  Pax Christi National Catholic Peace Movement
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