[Imc-newsroom] A story: religious foundation & social/enviro justice

[Peter Miller]

It's a simple story and it's important that people know about religious 
foundations' social justice work.  Does anyone want to report on the action 
that McKinley's taking and do a quick profile of the McKinley Foundation 
social justice committee, for posting on the imc site and/or print and/or 
broadcast?

Leads are below...

-Peter

>Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:29:59 -0600
>From: marc miller <mmiller at prairierivers.org>
>Reply-To: marc_a_miller at hotmail.com
>Organization: Prairie Rivers Network
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>To: paul hixson <p-hixson at uiuc.edu>
>Subject: [fwd: urgent - social action needed - arctic natural wildlife refuge]
>
>(Please distribute widely)
>
>Friends,
>
>I want to forward this along to you to provide another perspective to an
>important issue - the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  As many of you know, I
>have been working on river conservation and water quality issues for almost
>three years now, but I have also been personally concerned about for American
>Indian rights for even longer.  I want to ask you to help in regard to this
>important social justice issue.
>
>The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is very much an issue of social justice
>for the Gwich'in Nation as one of environmental calamnity.  The McKinley
>Church Social Action Committee (which I am a part) has put together a modest
>internet resource to take action on opposing the oil drilling and the threats
>to the Gwich'in People's traditional way of life in Alaska and NE Canada.
>Please visit this site link below and use the information to write our Federal
>representatives.  There will be several ways to take personal action.
>
>Thank you,
>Marc
>
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>Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:18:06 -0600
>To: mckinley folks:;
>From: Paul Hixson <paulhixson at mac.com>
>Subject: URGENT - Social Action Needed - Arctic Natural Wildlife Refuge
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>Dear Mckinleyites,
>
>I am writing to alert everyone to a critical environmental and social 
>justice issue that has a very short time-frame within which we can act.
>
>The only thing standing between the beginning of drilling for oil in the 
>pristine beauty of the Arctic Natural Wildlife Refuge in Alaska's north 
>slope is a vote in the US Senate.  Following the tragic events of 9/11, 
>the US House of Representatives caved in to pressures from the oil 
>industry and the White House and voted their approval for opening ANWR for 
>oil exploration.  The White House is pushing this initiative, so if it 
>passes the Senate, it's all over for what many have called the Serengeti 
>of North America.  It also spells particular ruin for the Native Peoples 
>of that area, the subsistence hunters of the Gwich'in Tribe, whose 
>liveliehood depends on the free ranging caribou migrations.
>
>On behalf of the Social Justice Committee of McKinley, we have assembled a 
>web site which provides multiple ways you can contact Senators Durbin and 
>Fitzgerald to express your opposition to this unwise act. The site 
>provides guidance for ; faxing; e-mailing; phoning; and letter-writing our 
>Senators.  The site also has links to over 20 other sources of information 
>on the web -- some are from a Native American perspective; some are from 
>an environmental perspective; some are from an activist perspective.
>
>http://homepage.mac.com/paulhixson/anwr/
>
>TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE... The vote on this matter could come within a 
>matter of a few days.  So, please take the time to check this out and 
>contact BOTH of our Senators right away.
>
>Thanks for your consideration.
>
>Paul
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>Paul Hixson
>209 W. Indiana Ave.
>Urbana, IL 61801
>217/367-9852
>paulhixson at mac.com