Edmund Rice Bulletin #126

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Edmund Rice Social Justice Bulletin #126

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The latest bulletin is available for viewing at http://www.erjnbulletin.blogspot.com and it contains items on the

following:-

A LESSON FOR OUR TIMES?

‘When people forget their fear they will rediscover their compassion’ ­ so says the wife of anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce  in a scene from the recently released film  ‘Amazing Grace’..

A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE WORKPLACE?

Participants at the recent forum on the ‘Dignity of Work’ jointly organised by Polmin and the Victorian Council of Churches were given a disturbing glimpse of the possible future under Australia’s new workplace laws..

PLEDGES TO BOOST AID CONFIRMS VALUE OF ‘PEOPLE POWER’.. extra aid could allow Australia to fund programs to achieve all of the following: reduce child deaths by 140,000 each year, cut maternal deaths by 4,200, lead to at least 29,000 fewer deaths from AIDS and 31,000 fewer deaths from TB each year. It could also provide access to safe drinking water to almost 37 million people..

FAIR PLAY BEYOND THE SPORTING FIELD

Most would not be aware that almost 80% of the world’s supply of soccer balls are manufactured in and around the city of Sialkot in Pakistan..

 

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