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Fr. Gutiérrez: ‘Hope emerges from ground up’

Fr. Gutiérrez: ‘Hope emerges from ground up’

“Hope is a gift, but you don’t receive that gift if you’re not creating resources for it. Reasons for hope don’t just drop from the sky. They come from below, from what people are doing or not doing.”
-Gustavo Gutierrez

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Interview with Leonardo Boff (Spanish)

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Prophetic Christian vs. Constantinian Christian According to Cornell West

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Dispatches From Latin America - Tuesday Book Review

Some of you have asked me to recommend you a starter about Autonomous/ Global Justice/ Global Citizens Movements in Latin America. Today is your day.
For this Tuesday Book Review, I’m excited to share with you what I consider an excellent primer to liberation and anti-neoliberalism movements in America Latina - Dispatches from Latin America: On [...]

la fe como instrumento de humanización

“Hay que dejar abierta la posibilidad de la fe como instrumento de humanización o, en lenguaje cristiano, como instrumento de salvación.”
Samuel Silva Gotay
El Nuevo Día - Samuel Silva Gotay y la religión como opio de los pueblos

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Confronting the Empire

Abolition of poor countries external debt
Control of international financial capital and taxation for wealth redistribution and development financing
Moratorium on the WTO to reorient international trade
Public control (oversee) of transnational companies
Defense of labor rights
Development of a solidarity economic sector
Environmental reconstruction and sustainable development
Creation and extension of universal health care and education system
Food sovereignty
Democratization of mass communication [...]

América Latina vista desde la Otra Campaña

 

América Latina vista desde la Otra Campaña  - Subcomandante Marcos

Así que hay otra forma de ver la historia de nuestra América Latina, la de la insumisión, la de la rebeldía.
Y una parte de esta historia singular es la del imperdonable pueblo cubano, el último en independizarse y el primero en ser libre en nuestro continente.
Pero [...]

Latin America Rising

YES! Magazine  :: Latin America Rising
Democracy: Latin America Leaps Ahead
Last year I wrote a short article titled Good News From The South, with the purpose of provoking progressive Christians to look at Latin America as an example of participatory democracy, justice and equality. The article was published last November by Prism Magazine.
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a truly liberated church

A model of a truly liberated church, one that could serve as a principle for liberation, can be projected from the mystery of the communion between the three divine Persons. This would be a church, a community of brothers and sisters, gathered round the Son sent by the Father of all goodness and purpose, in [...]

more than emerging church™

also known as la iglesia roja.
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