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Justice Education at the Center for Social Concerns
Education for justice is both a commitment and theme embedded in courses, programming, and work with faculty of the Center for Social Concerns. The Center sponsors and co-sponsors events for the campus and local community that serve to educate and to encourage action on behalf of justice and peace. Where possible, we wish to provide various forums for members of our campus and local community to consider and analyze pressing social problems and to draw "principles of reflection, norms of judgment and directives for action from the social teaching of the Church (Octogesima Adveniens, 4)." More...
NDVotes’08 Campaign is a nonpartisan educational campaign of the Center for Social Concerns aimed to encourage and organize voter registration, education, and mobilization efforts and events in order to increase the overall civic participation and informed political engagement of students at Notre Dame. The NDVotes’08 Task Force, leaders representing student groups, provides leadership for the NDVotes’08 Campaign.
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Take 30 seconds to fill out this online form and you can Stay Informed on election education events, Receive Information on registering to vote & voting absentee, and Provide Research Data to assess how ND compares with national campus voter registration efforts and civic and political participation.
Hard copies of the Voter Information Card also available at the Center for Social Concerns and at upcoming events.
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Additional Resources:
On the Candidates:
http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/?nid=roll_08campaign
On Faithful Citizenship:
http://www.usccb.org/faithfulcitizenship/
On Health Care:
(PDF articles recommended by Evans attached)
http://pewforum.org/religion08/compare.php?Issue=Health_Care
On Immigration:
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/usimmigration.php
On foreign policy:
http://www.globalsolutions.org/08orbust/
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/special/campaign2008
On the economy:
http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/issues/index.html#/context=index/issue=economy
Previous Events:
NEW! Streaming video of Rick Santorum
"The Gathering Storm of the 21st Century"
Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania)
Tuesday * February 26 * 7:00 pm
McKenna Hall Auditorium, Center for Continuing Education
"While the sounds of opposition to the war are heard frequently on our college campuses, I plan to offer a perspective our students rarely hear -- my views on who our true enemies are, what they believe, and why it is so important to defeat them.” - Rick Santorum
Part of the NDVOTES'08 issue series.
Last fall, Santorum addressed these questions to standing-room-only crowds at Harvard University, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Virginia, and Duke University. This semester, Notre Dame joins the University of Georgia, Clemson, Georgetown University, and the London School of Economics in his college speech tour. Santorum’s lecture series, "Gathering Storm of the 21st Century: America's War Against Islamic Fascism” is brought to college campuses by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in conjunction with the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
NEW! Streaming video of William Evans
Healthcare in America
NDVotes '08 Issues Series
Wednesday * February 13 * 5- 6:15 pm
Speaker: William Evans
Department of Economics and Econometrics
Coleman-Morse Lounge
Sponsored by:
Center for Social Concerns NDVotes’08
Co-sponsored by:
Social Justice in American Medicine (SJAM)
Heard a lot about health care plans from the candidates but not really sure what the facts are behind the buzz words? All current presidential candidates list health care reform as a top priority. Healthcare in America is designed to provide some background from the perspective of a top economist on the issue. Professor William Evans will help us to understand the buzz behind the words, background behind the issue, and provide an economist’s assessment of health care in America. Against this backdrop, Evans will then summarize the issues that a successful health care reform package must address, outline key proposed reforms, and discuss likely economic consequences of reform packages. Come, hear, and offer your own prescription for healthcare.
The Survivors: Super Tuesday and Early Primaries Analysis 
NDVotes '08
Wednesday * February 6 * 7:30-8:45 pm
Coleman-Morse Lounge
Jack Colwell, Dept. of American Studies
[Political Analyst, South Bend Tribune]
Dianne Pinderhughes, Dept. of Political Science
[Expertise in Minority Voting]
Darren Davis, Dept. of Political Science
[Expertise in Political Polling]
By Tuesday, February 6th, over 40% of the convention delegates will be accounted for and almost 30 states across the nation will have gone to the polls in the bid for their presidential hopeful. From a crowded field for both parties, what emerges is a top tier of “survivors” for both parties. Who are they, why and how did they get there, who voted, what did the polls say and not say, what were the key issues and personalities that made the difference? Hear analysis on these questions and more from our own ND experts on the caucuses and primaries that began with New Hampshire and culminates on Super Tuesday. Come political junkies, pundits, and rookies -- bring your friends, roll up your sleeves and let’s talk politics.
Sponsored by: Center for Social Concerns NDVotes’08
NDVotes’08 – the cutting edge of political discussion at Notre Dame
NDVotes’08 Launch
Wednesday, October 10, 5:00 - 7:00 pm Fieldhouse Mall
Stop by and help launch NDVotes’08! Register to Vote - Free food - Free music
This NDVotes’08 Launch Event is co-sponsored by Notre Dame College Republicans,
College Democrats, and College Libertarians and will have booths representing each party.
"Journalism with a Conscience” Discussion with Scott Stossel, Senior Managing Editor of The Atlantic Monthly
Thursday, October 18, 4:00 pm Coffee House, Center for Social Concerns
Mr. Stossel will speak about his career as a journalist. Stossel is a senior managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, where he has worked on and off since 1992. He worked for six years at the American Prospect magazine, where he served as associate editor, culture editor, and executive editor. He also taught for several years in the American Studies department at Trinity College in Hartford. His articles and essays have appeared in a wide array of publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. His critically acclaimed 2004 book, Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver, inspired The Boston Globe to write, "Scott Stossel’s superb new biography is an extraordinary achievement", while Publisher's Weekly declared, "This is a superbly researched, immensely readable political biography". He is currently working on an intellectual history of the idea of anxiety. Sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns 25th Anniversary.
Film: American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver (2006)
Thursday, October 18, 7:00 & 10:00 pm Browning Cinema
Film presented by: Harris Wofford; Former Senator of Pennsylvania and Civil Rights Leader Bruce Ornstein; Writer, Producer and Director of American Idealist Scott Stossel; Editor, The Atlantic Monthly
Sargent Shriver has arguably touched more lives than any American since Franklin Roosevelt. Television journalist and former LBJ aide Bill Moyers calls him “the best all-around politician I’ve ever seen.” Yet, Shriver remains unknown to most Americans today. During his tenure in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Shriver created the Peace Corps, directed the War on Poverty, and served as U.S. ambassador to France. The programs he created—including the Peace Corps, Head Start, Legal Services for the Poor, VISTA, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, and Special Olympics—have improved the lives of millions. Sarge’s story offers both a guiding paradigm and a source of inspiration for those who wish to serve. Produced by the Chicago Video Project. NR, 90 minutes. Sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns 25th Anniversary.
Immigrant Healthcare Justice
Tuesday, October 30, 8:00 - 9:00 pm, DeBartolo 117
Did you know that Immigrants are denied Federal Medicaid coverage for the first five years they are in the USA? Did you know Congress removed a provision in the new SCHIP bill that would have allowed the children of LEGAL immigrants coverage under the act? Did you know YOU don't have a Right to Healthcare?
To learn more about immigrant healthcare and the human right to receive medical care, please join us for an eye-opening presentation from an expert in the field, Father Kevin Minder, S.T.D., the founder and executive director of the Center for Immigrant Healthcare Justice, in St. Louis. He earned a doctorate (magna cum laude) in Sacred Theology in June of 2004 from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas in Rome, Italy. His dissertation: "The Right to Healthcare and the Denial of Medicaid Benefits to Legal Immigrants," became the impetus for his creation of a Center that advocates for greater access to the healthcare system for all immigrants in our society. Spnsored by the Social Justice for American Medicine (SJAM) student club. Contact lmartin8@nd.edu for more information.
Bought and Sold: Human Trafficking & Bonded Labor in the U.S.
Monday, November 5, 7:00 – 8:30 pm Courtroom, Law School
"Each year 800,00 to 900,000 human beings are bought, sold, or forced across the world's borders." These words from President Bush to the U.N. General Assembly in 2003 drew urgent attention to a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions -- human trafficking and bonded labor. Human trafficking stretches across the world and includes our own neighborhoods.
Speakers on this panel will include Bridgette Carr, Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Notre Dame, who works with the Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic and is hired to work on immigration and human trafficking. Carr has experience in human trafficking cases in Michigan. Other speakers invited to speak will include testimony from a survivor of human trafficking, an immigration official, and a Notre Dame student who came to learn about the situation of human trafficking through a summer internship
Come here about what is being done politically to address this issue and how campus communities have joined local, national, and global organizations to take action.
Sponsors include the Center for Social Concerns, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic, and the Family Justice Center of St. Joseph County.
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