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An Advocate Lends a Hand as Social Justice Goals Unify Faiths

By John Atlas
June 22, 2007

I am a big fan of the type of community organizing done by groups like Acorn and the IAF. The NY Times has an article a few days ago about the community organizing work of the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago, focusing on its work in the Muslim community as part of a broader interfaith effort.

The mainstream media rarely write about community organizing, but Sam Freedman who wrote this piece is a major exception. And he writes so elegantly about it as he did for his book, Upon This Rock. Check it out.


Comments (1)

John,

Thanks for pointing that article out to us. I would have missed it otherwise. I really like the way things are moving in faith communities. Boy, it's been a long time coming. A long time out in no man's land. Finally, it's becoming cool again is so many camps - to care about poverty and to not criticize the poor for being poor. It seems like the early 80s on through to the mid 2000s, the attitude among the faithful was that if someone was discriminated against, they weren't assimilating, if they were hungry, they weren't pulling themselves up by their boot straps, etc.

We have a such a long way to go to create social justice - true justice - but, every movement in that direction helps build the momentum.

As for you, I'm glad you are here, John.

Nora Thomason

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