Why Celebrate Farm Worker Awareness Week?
Posted on: March 20, 2014
Commemorating these two festivals fits perfectly with all the elements of our mission: “Equipping people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.”
National Farm Worker Week celebrates the achievements of the United Farm Workers. UPW, organized in 1962 by Caesar Chavez, has given farm workers hope. Chavez’ strict adherence to the principles of nonviolence, even in the most violent situations, has won respect and admiration from people around the world.
National Farm Worker Awareness Week (March 24-31) | Facebook | Student Action for Farmworkers
Commemorating the life and witness of El Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, Central America Week is observed in the week around the anniversary of his assassination while saying mass on March 24, 1980.
Central America Week (week of March 24)
What’s NOW with SLW!
- Author, speaker and coach Susan Vogt, provides “workshops and resources to help couples and families foster their deepest beliefs.” Her site FAMLY MATTERS and blog LIVING LIGHTLY have a strong faith-based simple living emphasis. I’ve added her books to the new SLW! Recommends Literacy Service.
- Vicki Robin, co-author of the best-seller Your Money or Your Life, new book Blessing the Hands That Feed Us – March 15 Podcast
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – March 20-Does your denomination have a Peace and Justice office? Investigate Fellowship of Reconciliation, an association of religious Peace Fellowships (914/358-4601); Center of Concern: Promoting Global Justice and Peace since 1971; Pax Christi, which works for peace for all humankind; or Lutheran Peace Fellowship.
- Check out a few of these thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE.
- Treasury of Celebrations*: Create Celebrations That Reflect Your Values and Don’t Cost the Earth Earth – Jan.-April | LENT | EASTER
- Worship Alternatives: Lent/HolyWeek/Easter
- Spirit of Simplicity: Lent/Easter ART | QUOTES
- Lent sermon series
- 10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Easter | Celebrations | SPANISH: 10 puntas
- Alternatives’ Seasonal/Thematic Index | LENT
- For Lent/Easter SEASONAL HELPS, including links to AV and Text resources, see SLW! Podcast episode 13.
What’s Coming
- Not Ordinary Times – Eco-Justice Ministries – April 1 Podcast – Preview Episode 18 NOW
What’s Happened
- Mid-March Celebrations | Purim (March 15-16) | St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) | First Day of Spring (March 20)
- Alternative Rites of Passage, including Wedding Alternatives – March 1 Podcast – New bride calls Wedding Alternatives “essential tool”
- Author Cecile Andrews, Champion of Simplicity Circles and Community Conversation. Her latest: Living Room Revolution. READ MORE
- Simple Living 101: Tools for Activists (shy or bold) + Jerry’s Excellent Adventure – Feb. SLW! Podcast | Sharing the Joy of a Simpler Lifestyle Through Speeches, Workshops, Events, Study/Action Groups, Simplicity Circles and Social Media
What Others Are Doing
- Lenten resources from Mustard Seed Associates/GodSpace: Music | Kids | Adults
- Overflow Project 50-Day Challenge: Simplify+Give+Change=Water
- Interviews, Book Groups, etc. — Spreading the Conversation about the OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42
- Faith and Money Radio – Making the Connection
- Soren Rundquist of the Environmental Working Group: How Biofuels Are Devastating Farmlands! TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 45.
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*Treasury of Celebrations: published by Northstone, a division of Wood Lake Publications, BC, Canada, best known for its Seasons of the Spirit curriculum.
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