December 7, 2018
For struggling Ohio town, polluting industries have brought needed jobs. Now it’s happening again
Amanda Kiger has seen the town’s problems up close as a community organizer for the Ohio Organizing Collaborative. “East Liverpool has been ravaged by the drug issues and there is no work,”…
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Overflow shelter created for influx of homeless
To accommodate the number of people at the shelters, the City of Reno, along with several local churches and Acting Community Together in Organizing Northern Nevada (ACTIONN), have collaborated to provide a…
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Resistance We Can Imagine
This project aims to spark the imaginations of pastoral and congregational leaders in their efforts to realize their commitments to intersectional racial justice and healing in public life. The creators…
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Theology of Resistance
A Theology of Resistance requires us to always take responsibility. The teaching is transmitted through the story of “Eating From the Tree of Knowledge”, when God says to Adam after…
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One Of Town’s Saga Of Few Jobs, Chronic Pollution And The Coming Chemical Boom
Amanda Kiger has seen the town’s problems up close as a community organizer for the Ohio Organizing Collaborative. “East Liverpool has been ravaged by the drug issues and there is no…
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HOUSING INSECURITY EVENT SPURS CONVERSATIONS ON CAMPUS
“The university teeters between greed and growth,” said Wendy Wiglesworth, a representative from ACTIONN. “You can’t complain about a problem you create.” ACTIONN is a faith-based social justice movement aimed…
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Washoe County Could Establish Affordable Housing Trust Fund
The Washoe County Board of Commissioners took the first steps toward creating a new way to help the affordable housing crisis. The Affordable Housing Trust Fund would use public money…
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