Sep 12, 2024 | Care for Creation, Environmental Racism, Issues
Please join Franciscan Action Network (FAN) for the first webinar of our 2024 Environmental Justice series, “Protect Oak Flat: Preserving Sacred Sites” on September 19, 2024 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT. FAN will welcome Vanessa Nosie of Apache Stronghold for a discussion...
Jun 14, 2024 | Care for Creation, Environmental Racism, FJC News, Issues
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering permits that would allow Canadian oil giant Enbridge to build a new 41-mile segment of its Line 5 oil pipeline around and upstream of the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin. The construction project would cross...
Feb 28, 2024 | Care for Creation, Environmental Racism, FAN, Issues
In 2023, our Working for Environmental Justice campaign focused attention on three regions in our nation – the Permian Basin and Chaco Canyon in New Mexico; St. James, Louisiana; and Chester, Pennsylvania – as case studies of ongoing environmental injustice. At three...
Oct 18, 2023 | Environmental Racism, FAN, FJC News
One couldn’t help but feel the positive energy in the room at the first Franciscan Justice Leadership Conference held Oct. 13-16 with the theme “Preserving God’s Planet Together”. We had more than 100 people–including more than 60 young adults...
May 2, 2023 | Care for Creation, Environmental Racism, FJC News
On Mother Earth Day, April 22, 2023, 14 people gathered together at Caesar’s Park on the Milwaukee River to do a river walk. The group gathered was unique, composed of four Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity who had traveled from Manitowoc, a Capuchin friar...
Dec 13, 2022 | Environmental Racism, Issues
In the fall of 2022, Franciscan Action Network, the Franciscan Federation and the Franciscan Friars (OFM) US-6 JPIC Working Group offered a 4-part webinar series on Confronting Environmental Racism. The centerpiece of our series consisted of three short documentaries...
