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Lecture Series
This annual lecture series hosts speakers who are actively committed
to promoting social change and social responsibility. Past speakers
include:
September
5, 2003
Justice Lecture Series Speaker
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Visit website: http://www.usfca.edu/dalailama/
Sept
17, 2002, Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Oct
8-9, 2001, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, 1980 Nobel Peach Prize Laureate
Oct
24, 2000, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Oct
4, 1999, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Aug
13, 1999, Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
May
13, 1998, Helen Prejean, C.S.J., Author of "Dead Man Walking."
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University
Ministry's Social Justice programs collaborate with a number
of other Bay Area agencies in providing opportunities not
only for service but also opportunities to ask the questions
which seek solutions to injustice. |
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Local
Service Opportunities
University Ministry maintains a list of local service opportunities
that are available on an ongoing basis.
Click here to see our list.
Justice
Links
These sites may help you find more information on a wide
aray of justice issues.
Click here to see our list.
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Arrupe
Immersion Experiences
An opportunity to experience different cultures and socioeconomic environments
while exploring the realities of marginalized communities.
Spring Break - March 15-19, 2004
1. Tenderloin Project
Explore issues that affect San Francisco's inner-city population.
2. Tijuana, Mexico
Discover the complexities of border issues and immigration.
Guatemala
Work with the indigenous population of rural Guatemala.
3. San Francisco Bay View/Hunters Point
Work in this SF neighborhood with Habitat for Humanity.
Intersession - January
2004
4. Belize
Running a winter camp in a small country village.
5. New Mexico
Working in a native American Reservation.
6. Cuba
Exploring the current political and economic environment.
School
of the Americas Protests
Witness nonviolently to the social injustice perpetuated by the training
of Latin American soldiers at the School of the Americas (Western Hemisphere
Institute for Security Cooperation) in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
Vigil
and Protest
Nov 21-23, 2003
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