For those looking for Rita resources, I'm currently looking at the projected path of the storm, a map of which dioceses are on that path, and a map of Texas. I sent an email to ETSS that the people of the Texas coast are in our prayers here at CDSP, and to let us know what work needs to be done if Rita does in fact hit and do damage. A Reading Week trip is still a possibility, as well as trip already being planned for Spring. Please, if you have time before Friday ends, watch the stream of Democracy Now about what is currently going on in the Gulf Coast region under the direction of our presidential administration. Matt and I watch this broadcast every day and it has changed our perception of many things in this country. I'll try to post more resources as events unfold.
"There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.
But there is also the bubbling of change under the surface of obedience: the growing revulsion against endless wars, the insistence of women all over the world that they will no longer tolerate abuse and subordination... There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color."
Source: A People's History of the United States, 1999 edition, page 661.
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