KairosUSA

 

 

Resources Available
From the Kairos Office

European Kairos Document: "A Call to faith communities, trade union movements and individuals that are working for social, political and economic change, to build coalitions to work for the liberation of society from the stranglehold of the deregulated globalized economy and its competitive culture."

Christianity, Colonization and Globalization from the Centre for Society & Religion, Colombo, Sri Lanka

The Jubilee As Seen from Europe, Ulrich Duchrow, Kairos/Europa

Jubilee: A Time for Metropolitan Equities & the Common Good, Gamaliel Foundation & Religious Leaders

Tegucigalpa Declaration, Jubilee 2000 Latin American/Caribbean Platform, Yes to Life, No to Debt

On the Way ... From Kairos to Jubilee (The document of the Kairos/USA network, 1994) Text in Spanish/German

The Kairos Document...Challenge to the Church (South Africa, 1985.)

The Road to Damascus...Kairos and Conversion (Third World Christians from seven nations:  South Africa, Namibia, South Korea, Philippines, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, 1989.)

Thou Shalt Not Steal, by Henry George, Speech to anti-poverty society, New York,   May 8, 1987. 

In the Struggle is the Hope: People's/Social Movements, USA, written by Loretta J. Williams, PhD as requested by the World Council of Churches for their program "Socialization, Globalization, and Exclusion"

Moral Imperatives Statement / Religious Working Group on the World Bank/IMF. Also in Spanish

From Kairos to Jubilee, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer

KAIROS PAPERS AVAILABLE HERE:
A Message to Kairos/USA about Jubilee Justice, Ched Myers
Poverty in South Africa by Kalie Thomas August
Theological Reflection Questions on Land

VIDEOS available from Kairos/USA
for use by members of our network:

The Guns of Nov 3rd. Shocking, actual footage by Jim Walters/Greensboro Justice Fund re Greensboro Massacre, 1979.

Banking on Life and Debt, Maryknoll. 30-minutes. Shows the policies of the World Bank/IMF, vis-a-vis, debt and poverty

School of Assassins, Maryknoll Productions. About School of Americas.Book by the same name by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer

Fear and Favor in the Newsroom, California Newsreel. 57 minutes. Narrated by Studs Terkel. Media censorship in the US

Holding Ground, The Rebirth of Dudley Street, New Day Films. Documentary about community vision, struggle, change

E-Mail Joan Elbert,  JTElbert@aol.com for information on these and other resources or call her at 773-275-5410.

USEFUL WEBSITES, e-mail and snail-mail addresses:

Colloquium 2000 Documents and information:  www.econ-theo.org

*HONOR, Information and advocacy re:  Indian issues: www2.dgsys.com/honor

Jubilee 2000 Afrika Campaign (links to other Jubilee campaigns)
www.oneworld.org/jubilee2000

Mumia Abu-Jamal update:  www.mumia.org

World Economy Project Preamble Center (networking around issues of globalization) www.preamble.org

National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice www.nicwj.org

*Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry/Human Rights in North America.  Loretta Williams, Director www.myersceter.org

Mobilization for Global Justice, site for protesters:  www.a16.org

*National Farmworker Ministry:  www.la-paz.org/nfwmhome.html   These groups have links to United Farmworkers and FLOC. 

New Day Films, excellent videos on racism, community land trusts, worker issues, local community struggles:  www.newday.com

www.nonviolence.org  Click on full listings to access several dozen of the best groups (including FOR, IFOR and the Baptist, Episcopal, Jewish, Lutheran and Muslim peace fellowships.

www.forusa.org  Updates on the situation in Columbia.  Get info from delegation which investigated "Plan Columbia" first hand.  "In VietNam it was Communism.  In Columbia, it's drugs.  

www.unesco.org  the website for the lead UN agency  the Decade:  click on "culture of peace"

www.nobelweb.org site on the Nobel Decade, activity of nongovernmental organizations

Washington Office on Africa www.woafrica.org

Jubilee 2000/USA Campaign, PO Box 29550, Washington, DC 20017 www.j2000usa.org

Southwest Organizing Project:    www.swop.net  (This group organizes around labor, economic, environmental issues, and racism.

New Day Films: www.newday.com  (Excellent films around issues of history and justice.)

*World Peacemakers  e-mail  WorldPeacemakers@compuserve.com   

Native American Rights Fund, www.narf.org

*Nevada Desert Experience "Millennium 2000:  Walking the Ways of Peace."  P.O. Box 4487, Las Vegas NV 89127.

*Kairos Europa:  www.kairoseuropa.org

Colloquium 2000: www.econ-theo.org

 

 

* Indicates a member of the Kairos network.

 

 

A national/international network of groups and individuals, active on issues of anti-racism
economic justice and self-determination, while engaged in a process of theological/political reflection.