U.S. reparations efforts: Japanese internment camps during WW II and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
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[Crossposted with permission from Scott Russell on Healing Minnesota Stories blog]
COVID Vaccine and Clergy Information
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We share this email in its entirety from the Faith Leaders distribution list of the Minnesota Department of Health:
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Hello Faith Leaders;
We have received many requests and questions about “clergy” qualifying as essential workers when it comes to vaccine prioritization distribution.
News for the Common Good: February 3, 2021
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February 3, 2021
In this Issue
Script notice
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In 2020 Healing Minnesota Stories adapted the Sacred Sites Tour into a documentary script. That script is available to view at the Minnesota Council of Churches offices during regular business hours. If you want to read the script please make an appointment by contacting Rev. Jim Bear Jacobs.
Indigenous organization seeks church partners for truth telling, healing around Indian boarding school trauma
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(Crossposted with permission from the Healing Minnesota Stories blog)
Part of an ongoing series on healing and reparations
Can you remember when you were 8 years old, somewhere around third grade? Put yourself in that frame of mind.
Living Reconciliation event to feature Rev. Dr. Curtiss DeYoung
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The following is shared from the Plymouth Center for Reconciliation...
News for the Common Good 2/17/2021
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Holocaust survivors receive German reparations to this day
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(Crossposted with permission from Healing Minnesota Stories blog)
Part of an ongoing series exploring reparations
By Vic Rosenthal and Scott Russell
"Seeking Justice" recorded webcast
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"Seeking Justice, Caring for Community, Preparing for the Days Ahead" featured Black clergy from Minnesota and elsewhere offering advice to Minnesota churches on how to prepare for the Derek Chauvin trial. Watch Rev. Traci Blackmon (United Church of Christ), Rev. Dr. Gary Green II (United Theological Seminary), and Rev Steven Belton of the Urban League (Twin Cities).