Divesting from Wells Fargo

Fellow active Adventists, After months of clergy organizing through sfop(.org), two days ago something powerful and beautiful happened in downtown SF: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news%2Flocal%2Fsan_francisco&id=8553886&rss=rss-kgo-article-8553886 http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/02/22/clergy-members-ask-wells-fargo-to-repent-during-sf-foreclosure-protest/#comments http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2012/02/wells-fargo-foreclosures-clergy-protest.html?s=image_gallery http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20019502 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fbaycitynews%2Froundup.DTL&ao=all After a multi-billion dollar taxpayer bailout, Wells Fargo continues to divest from the community–refusing to help families stay in their homes through mortgage principal reductions, supporting for-profit immigrant detention [...]

SDA Potpourri

Faith in the Public Sector? Young Adventist Professionals Speak Out (NARLA) Valley View University’s green campus [video] (ANN, 24 Feb 2012) Dangerous Redefinition: Candidates Recast Role of Religion in American Life (Jason Hines, Religious Liberty.TV, 24 Feb 2012) When Women Break the Bread of Life (Donna J. Haerich, Spectrum, 23 Feb 2012) A House Divided [...]

Haiti’s Clean Cook Stove Project and Safety Initiative

Dr. Marciana Popescu (a former professor of mine) will be soon be in Haiti to work on “a number of initiatives in partnership with The Haiti Initiative, Social Tap Inc. A group of 18 students will join [her] on this trip, focusing mostly on women’s issues and women’s rights, ranging from the challenges faced by [...]

SDA Potpourri

Here is a bit of reading for your Sabbath: One in Christ – Petition Virginia Seventh-day Adventists Reach Across Globe to Help Kenya’s Children (Rebecca Jackson, Adv Review) College Remembers Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy (Giovanni Hashimoto, PUC, 13 Jan 2012) U.S. Supreme Court ruling is First Amendment defense, Adventist legal counselors say (ANN, 13 [...]

Economic Justice

Bryan Bissell shares these thoughts and resources: Most people know intuitively that large income gaps are very harmful to everyone. This is explicitly what the Bible’s Jubilee economic principles were designed to prevent. Now we have conclusive evidence that proves it. If you haven’t watched any of my other links, watch this one. http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/ [...]

PICO and Economic Reform

Shared by Ryan Bell, who is participating in the meetings: Clergy gather in New Orleans to craft a populist message to aim at politicians (Bruce Nolan, Times-Picayune, 17 Nov 2011) More than 500 clergy from dozens of denominations are in New Orleans this week, laying plans they hope will force next year’s presidential candidates to [...]

SDA Round-up

1) Jamaican Adventists march in support of Enditnow (Nigel Coke, ANN, 3 Nov 2011) Hundreds of Jamaican Seventh-day Adventists marched last week against violence toward women and children in Ocho Rios. They came out in support of Enditnow, a global campaign to raise awareness of domestic abuse and advocate on behalf of woman and girls [...]

We Are 99%

Editor’s Note: When the Tea Party movement was gaining steam, I asked for reflections by any SDA participants. I didn’t get any takers. When the Occupy Wall Street movement started to take off, I again called for writers. Here, Giovanni Hashimoto shares his views and experiences: We Are 99%: Why We Should All Wish for [...]

Cindy Tutsch on Immigration & Healthcare

In her Adventist Today blog, Cindy Tutsch comments on important social issues. For example: Unless you’re Native American, you or your not-so-distant ancestors immigrated to the United States. But now some of you want to close or drastically tighten our borders? [COMPLETE BLOG]  

Adventist Articles of Interest

A few more posts that caught my attention: 1) Pastor Jeff Gang advocating with CARE to support women in development (The Suburban Pastor, 11 Mar 2011). 2) Living on “Living Wage” (Trish Tickle, Adv Today, 16 Mar 2011) So how should this [living wage discussion] affect us as Adventist Christians? First and foremost, it should [...]