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The Catholic Worker Movement (1933-1980) $20.5 The Catholic Worker Movement (1933-1980) |
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The Catholic Worker Movement $37.95 This book is essential reading for understanding the legacy behind the Catholic Worker Movement. The founders of the movement, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin met during the Great Depression in 1932… |
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American Catholic Pacifism: The Influence Of Dorothy Day And The Catholic Worker Movement $157.5 This collection of mostly original essays by scholars and Catholic Worker activists provides a systematic, analytical study of the emergence and nature of pacifism in the largest single … |
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The Catholic Worker Movement: Intellectual and Spiritual Origins $29.95 “This book is essential reading for understanding the legacy behind the Catholic Worker Movement. The founders of the movement, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin met during the Great Depression in 1932. Their collaboration sparked something in the Church that has been both an inspiration and a reproach to American Catholicism. Dorothy Day is already a cultural icon. Once maligned, she is now being considered for sainthood. From a bohemian circle that included Eugene O’Neil to her controversial labor politics to the founding of the Catholic Worker Movement, she lived out a civil rights pacifism with a spirituality that took radical message of the Gospel to heart. Peter Maurin has been less celebrated but was equally important to the movement that embraced and uplifted the poor among us. Dorothy Day said he was, “a genius, a saint, an agitator, a writer, a lecturer, a poor man and a shabby tramp.” Mark and Louise Zwick’s thorough research into the Catholic Worker Movement reveals who influenced Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day and how the influence materialized into much more than good ideas. Dostoevsky, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Francis of Assisi, Therese of Lisieux, Jacques and Raissa Maritain and many others contributed to fire in the minds of two people that sought to “blow the dynamite of the Church” in 20th-century America. This fascinating and detailed work will be meaningful to readers interested in American history, social justice, religion and public life. It will also appeal to Catholics wishing to live the Gospel with lives of action, contemplation, and prayer.” |
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Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement : Centenary Essays $29.25 No Synopsis Available |
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Peter Maurin: Saintly Founder of the Catholic Worker $1.91 A spiritual biographical novel based on the life of the founder of the Catholic Worker movement. The noveltells factual details of Maurin’s life with author’s speculation on some of the thoughts and feelings of this great man. Maurin gave up earning a living. He did any kind of work, but accepted no wages, only food or bed in return. |
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The Foreign Worker and the German Labor Movement $66 The rural origins of the Polish migrants and their traditional Catholic religious beliefs led most observers, including their fellow workers as well as recent historians, to view them as obstacles … |
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American Catholic Pacifism : The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement $112.13 No Synopsis Available |
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All Is Grace $27 Drawing on Day”s recently published diaries and letters, Forest chronicles her extraordinary journey, with special stress on the unique spiritual vision that underlay her dramatic witness. Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and one of the most prophetic voices in the American Catholic church, has recently been proposed as a candidate for canonization. (Motivation) |
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American Catholic Pacifism $119.95 Studies the Catholic Worker peace movement, led by Dorothy Day, in the United States. |
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American Catholic Pacifism $130.38 This collection of mostly original essays by scholars and Catholic Worker activists provides a systematic, analytical study of the emergence and nature of pacifism in the largest single denomination in the United States: Roman Catholicism. The collection underscores the pivotal role of Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker movement in challenging the conventional understanding of just-war principles and the American Catholic Church’s identification with uncritical militarism. Also included are a study of Dorothy Day’s preconversion pacifism, previously unpublished letters from Dorothy Day to Thomas Merton, Eileen Egan’s account of the birth and early years of Pax, the Catholic Worker-inspired peace organization, and in-depth coverage of how the contemporary Plowshares movement emerged from the Catholic Worker movement. |
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Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel $26.22 Christian anarchism has been around for at least as long as “secular” anarchism. The existing literature cites Leo Tolstoy as its most famous (sometimes even as the only) proponent, but there are many others, such as Jacques Ellul, Vernard Eller, Dave Andrews or the people associated with the Catholic Worker movement. Both individually and collectively, these Christian anarchists offer a compelling critique of the state, the church and the economy based on numerous passages from the New Testament. Yet despite the relevance and growth of this literature, no generic study bringing together these different thinkers or reflecting on their contribution has been published to date, because such work involves meticulous searching, compiling and structuring of countless different texts and sources, not all of which are easily accessed. This book, however, provides precisely such a study, and thereby presents Christian anarchism to both the wider public and the wider academic community. |
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Christian anarchism: Catholic Worker Movement, Christian anarchists, Tolstoyan movement, William Blake, Philip Berrigan, Utah Phillips $19.99 Source: Wikipedia,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC |
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Dorothy Day $17.15 This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day (1897-1980)–co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and one of the most inspiring figures of recent history. By her lifelong option for the poor and her devotion to active nonviolence, Day fashioned a new face for the gospel in our time. In 2000 the Vatican recognized her cause for canonization, and she was officially termed Servant of God. To mark the occasion, Orbis is pleased to issue an anniversary edition of Dorothy Day: Selected Writings, widely recognized as the essential and authoritative guide to her life and work. |
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Dorothy Day: Champion of the Poor $28.71 Young adult readers as well as adults will be fascinated by this biography of Dorothy Day, the controversial and celebrated Catholic activist, who has been proposed for canonization as a Saint of the Church. Dorothy Day embraced many causes: the poor, non-violent social change, the Civil Rights Movement, suffragism and pacifism. The co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement that began as a newspaper for Catholic social teaching and flowered into nation-wide communities of hospitality for the needy, the most influential lay Catholic in the history of American Catholicism who received the Laetare and Gandhi medals and was instrumental in Vatican Council II’s adoption of a resolution that supported conscientious objectors and condemned indiscriminate destruction, was also a friend of communists, atheists, and socialists. She was also a single mother, divorcee, the recipient of an abortion who converted to Catholicism and baptized her daughter in the Church. She marched with Cesar Chavez, became a model to the Berrigans, received a visit from Mother Teresa and communion from Pope Paul VI, and lived in voluntary abject poverty. Her life could be thought of as one of contradictions, were it not for the very important observation that hers was a life spent in conscious imitation of the Gospel, but not along the straight and narrow, as Elaine Murray Stone so convincingly shows. |
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Dorothy Day: Champion of the Poor $0.95 Young adult readers as well as adults will be fascinated by this biography of Dorothy Day, the controversial and celebrated Catholic activist, who has been proposed for canonization as a Saint of the Church.Dorothy Day embraced many causes: the poor, non-violent social change, the Civil Rights Movement, suffragism and pacifism. The co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement that began as a newspaper for Catholic social teaching and flowered into nation-wide communities of “hospitality” for the needy, the “most influential lay Catholic in the history of American Catholicism” who received the Laetare and Gandhi medals and was instrumental in Vatican Council II’s adoption of a resolution that supported conscientious objectors and condemned “indiscriminate destruction,” was also a friend of communists, atheists, and socialists. She was also a single mother, divorcee, the recipient of an abortion who converted to Catholicism and baptized her daughter in the Church. She marched with Cesar Chavez, became a model to the Berrigans, received a visit from Mother Teresa and communion from Pope Paul VI, and lived in voluntary abject poverty. Her life could be thought of as one of contradictions, were it not for the very important observation that hers was a life spent in conscious imitation of the Gospel, but not along the straight and narrow, as Elaine Murray Stone so convincingly shows. |
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Dorothy Day: In My Own Words: In My Own Words $9.07 A twentieth-century Catholic activist, founder of the Catholic Worker movement and its newspaper, The Catholic Worker, and candidate for Sainthood are just a few descriptions of Dorothy Day. In this volume, Phyllis Zagano has compiled and arranged long and short selections from Dorothy Day”s own writings which reflect her gospel-based spirituality. In addition, Dorothy Day: In My Own Words is illustrated with photographs from every stage of Dorothy Day”s adult life. The corporal and spiritual works of mercy are an underlying theme. |
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George G. Higgins and the Quest for Worker Justice: The Evolution of Catholic Social Thought in America $107.95 George G. Higgins and the Quest for Worker Justice: The Evolution of Catholic Social Thought in America is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of the Catholic Church”s involvement in social issues from the late 19th to the end of the 20th century through the lens of the life, career, writings, and ministry of the legendary Monsignor Higgins. Much more than a limited biography, John O” Brien offers a sweeping history of the ”social questions” facing America over the past 100 years, the thought behind one of the leading figures in the worker justice movement, and a moving application of the rich heritage of Catholic Social Thought. |
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George G. Higgins and the Quest for Worker Justice: The Evolution of Catholic Social Thought in America $43.04 George G. Higgins and the Quest for Worker Justice: The Evolution of Catholic Social Thought in America is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of the Catholic Church”s involvement in social issues from the late 19th to the end of the 20th century through the lens of the life, career, writings, and ministry of the legendary Monsignor Higgins. Much more than a limited biography, John O” Brien offers a sweeping history of the social questions facing America over the past 100 years, the thought behind one of the leading figures in the worker justice movement, and a moving application of the rich heritage of Catholic Social Thought. |
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Leaders of Political Parties in Ireland: Leaders of Fianna F il, Leaders of Fine Gael, Leaders of Progressive Democrats, Leaders of Sinn F in $47.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Joe Higgins (born 1 May 1949) is an Irish Socialist Party politician. He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency at the 2009 European Parliament election. He was the sole Socialist Party Teachta Dála (TD) from 19972007, representing the Dublin West constituency. One of nine children of a small farming family, he was born in 1949 in Lispole, part of the Corca Dhuibhne gaeltacht in County Kerry. He went to school in the Dingle Christian Brothers School, and after finishing he enrolled in the priesthood. As part of his training he was sent to a Catholic seminary school in Minnesota, U.S. in the 1960s. It was against the backdrop of anti-Vietnam War protests and the civil rights movement that Higgins was politicised. He is now an atheist. He is a brother of the late Liam Higgins who played football with the Kerry senior team in the 1960s and 1970s. He returned to Ireland and attended University College Dublin studying English and French. For several years he was a teacher in several Dublin inner city schools. While at university he joined the Labour Party and became active in the Militant Tendency, an entryist Trotskyist group that operated within the Labour Party. Throughout his time in the Labour Party he was a strong opponent of coalition politics. He was elected to the Administrative Council of the Labour Party by the membership in the 1980s. In 1989 Higgins was expelled alongside other members of the Militant Tendency. The group eventually left the party and formed Militant Labour which became the Socialist Party in 1996. Higgins promised to accept only an average worker’s wage and thus accepted less than half his TD’s salary, donating the rest to the party and to progressive campaigns. Higgins wa… More: |
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Loaves and Fishes $20 Marking the centenary of Dorothy Day’s birth in 1897, this new edition of Loaves and Fishes makes a modern religious classic available to a new generation. A companion to her autobiography, The Long Loneliness, this is Day’s frank and compelling account of thirty years as leader of the Catholic Worker Movement and editor of its newspaper. Blending a journalist’s perceptions with emotional commitment and warm humor, she shares experiences amid the abandoned and impoverished, the hopeful and idealistic. In the process, she brings to life a host of remarkable personalities, and reveals a life of faith in action. A unique document of American social history, Loaves and Fishes offers powerful testimony to the unswerving faith of a woman dedicated to improving the lot of all people, and creating a viable alternative to the growing ills of a chaotic world. |
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Love Is the Measure: A Biography of Dorothy Day $31.93 Love Is the Measure offers a richly illustrated biography of Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement and one of the most extraordinary and prophetic voices in the American Catholic church. Jim Forest, who worked with Day in the 1960s, provides a compelling portrait of her heroic efforts to live out the radical message of the gospel for our times. A journalist and radical social reformer in her youth, at home in the bohemian Greenwich Village of the 1920s, Day surprised her friends with the decision in 1927 to enter the Catholic church. Her conversion, prompted by the birth out of wedlock of her daughter Tamar, left her searching for some way to reconcile her faith with her commitment to the cause of the poor and social justice. The answer followed her meeting with the French peasant-philosopher Peter Maurin, who inspired her to start The Catholic Worker, both a newspaper and eventually a movement. Enunciating a radical social vision rooted in the gospel, Day and those who joined her devoted themselves to the Works of Mercy while struggling to create a new society where it is easier to be good . An ardent pacifist, Dorothy Day challenged consciences within the church and society with her total opposition to war and her commitment to voluntary poverty. Forest chronicles her frequent arrests in the cause of peace, while stressing throughout the unique spiritual vision that underlies her dramatic witness. |
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Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition $16 In an expanded edition of her history of American women activists, Judith Nies has added biographical essays on feminist Bella Abzug and civil rights visionary Fannie Lou Hamer and a new chapter on women environmental activists. Included are portraits of Sarah Moore Grimké, who rejected her life as a Southern aristocrat and slaveholder to promote women’s rights and the abolition of slavery; Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who led more than three hundred slaves to freedom on the Underground Railway; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first woman to run for Congress, who advocated for women’s rights to own property, to vote, and to divorce; Mother Jones, “the Joan of Arc of the coalfields,” one of the most inspiring voices of the American labor movement; Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who worked for the reform of two of America’s most cherished institutions, the home and motherhood; Anna Louise Strong, an intrepid journalist who covered revolutions in Russia and China; and Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, who fed and sheltered the hungry and homeless in New York’s Bowery for more than forty years. |
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On Pilgrimage $23.5 These diary entries written by Dorothy Day in 1948 provide an intimate look into Day’s personal life as well as essential background for understanding the Catholic Worker movement, which she founded.In this book, Day writes about all facets of her life. Yet whether describing her visits to her daughter’s farm or the writings of the saints, a common theme emerges, namely, the gifts of God’s love and our need to respond to them with personal and social transformation. The concerns of the Catholic Worker movement are no less vital in our day: the disenfranchised poor, the benefits of the meaningful work, the significance of family, the dangers of increasing commercialism and secularism, the decline of moral standards, and the importance of faith. Available for the first time since it was originally published, this edition includes a foreword by Michael O. Garvey and an introduction by Mark and Louise Zwick that gives an overview of Day’s early life and her commitment to the Catholic worker movement. |
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On Pilgrimage $23.5 On Pilgrimage gathers diary entries written by Dorothy Day in 1948, providing an intimate look into Day’s personal life as well as essential background for understanding the Catholic Worker movement, which she founded.In this volume Day writes about all facets of her life. But whether describing her visits to her daughter’s farm or the writings of the saints, she was always exploring the same thing, namely, the gifts of God’s love and our need to respond to them with personal and social transformation. Since one of the goals of the Catholic Worker movement was to remedy the ills of modern society, Day reflects often on the social and moral concerns of her day — which are no less vital in our day: the disenfranchised poor, the benefits of meaningful work, the significance of family, the dangers of increasing commercialism and secularism, the decline of moral standards, and the importance of faith.Available for the first time since it was originally published, this edition of On Pilgrimage includes a foreword by Michael O. Garvey and an introduction by Mark and Louise Zwick that gives an overview of Day’s early life and her commitment to the Catholic Worker movement. |
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Socialism in the United States: American socialists, Catholic Worker Movement, Socialist parties in the United States, Noam Chomsky $68.41 Source: Wikipedia,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC |
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Sport and International Politics $206 Sociology and history of sport is a fast rising subject. There is a growing interest in issues associated with globalization and sport culture across European and North American boundaries. This book fills an important gap. At the forefront of new areas of research in sport studies, it deals with a significant historical period systematically and, above all, internationally. Brought together in a single volume, this work examines the shaping of sport both by the fascist and communist institutions of Europe during the interwar period. It shows how sport was used as an instrument of propaganda and psychological pressure by major political and sporting nations as well as international movements such as the Catholic Church and the International Worker Sport Movement. This volume will be a key reference for researchers and students in sports history, sports sociology, politics and European studies. |
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Strangers in a Foreign Land $26.83 The Roman Catholic Church and the U.S. labor movement are missing an opportunity to work together to promote the well-being of Latino immigrants, the majority of whom are Catholic. The relationship between the Church and labor has stagnated because the U.S. labor movement (not unlike the Democrat Party) is taking political and social positions on abortion, same sex marriage, and school vouchers that are inimical to Catholic thinking despite the fact that the Church and Latinos immigrants are culturally conservative. Strangers in a Foriegn Land: The Organizing of Catholic Latinos in the U.S. argues that labor groups would enjoy a better relationship with a natural institutional ally by taking no position on these culture war positions. Author George Schultze also takes the position that the Catholic Church should should be taking steps to promote worker-owned cooperatives in the Mondrag-n Cooperative Corporation tradition, which recognizes the beneficial role of free market economies. |
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U.s. Congressman Keith Ellison — Not Your Run-Of-The-Mill Politician
Something I Said
Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison
Dwight Hobbes
MN Law & Politics archives Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison is the most intriguing political entity since Dick Gregory ran for president. Like Gregory, Ellison ran not so much as a politician, but, instead, as an activist. And, like Gregory, his being black has both everything and nothing to do with his significance. Society’s trying, but isn’t yet colorblind: accordingly, the first thing anyone notices, on gazing at the good congressman, is that he’s black. And with that light skin and those Caucasian features (a hit with white and black folk alike) that he’s the very image of a non-threatening black man. So, undeniably, being black is prominent in this guy’s public profile. Ellison, though, did not ride the race card to Capitol Hill. He stumped on humanist issues that crossed color and class lines. And went one better. Dick Gregory lost. Ellison, after winning Minnesota’s Fifth District congressional seat, shows signs of effecting social change from within the political system. In his freshman term, Keith Ellison: got in front of what now is a national crisis over foreclosure scams, introducing the first predatory mortgage lending bill; put forth legislation on lead-toy safety; was part of the coalition to push an increase in minimum wages; and lobbied and organized forums to address issues from whether to stay in Iraq to rescuing the polluted environment. Four times he visited the Middle East, getting a first-hand look at what’s going on in Iraq. Everyone talks about the importance of peace in the world. He went to Norway to see just what can be done to help bring it about. During a trip paid for by the House Financial Services Committee (on which he sits) Ellison attended meetings at International Peace Research Institute, the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “The main lesson of Oslo is [Norway] is nation dedicated to peace. They consistently have used government and non-governmental organizations to promote peace around the world.” They did, after all, create the Nobel Peace Prize. Ellison continues, “We can have a culture of peace in America. And have the potential to be [even] more effective than Norway. We’re bigger and have more money.” He came back in a position to give informed support to Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-Ohio) bill to create a Cabinet-level Department of Peace. Ellison looks forward to accomplishing still more. “In the next few years, I want to get us on the path to a high-wage economy. In the 1950s, on person could feed a family of four. We had also Jim Crow and gender discrimination. Gays were in the closet. Even being Catholic was some far out thing to be. But, if you worked 40 hours, you could make it. We had vital, robust union movement. That’s not true, today. We think the problem in Detroit is too much crime. Not that the auto companies have picked up and left. We need a high-wage strategy that says people of color, women can fully participate in society. The sad fact of the present is that while we’re seeing [discrimination] dissipate, we’re economic disparity worsen. It’s harder for everybody, no matter what color or gender, to put food on the table. To put gas in the car. I see myself as part of a movement to get single-parent healthcare, to get the Employee Free Choice Act passed, so workers can unionize again and protect their pay and work conditions. A movement to say ‘We’re gonna have a trade policy that does not depend upon foreign workers being exploited.’” It was no hop, skip and a jump from his 4-year tenure as State Senator to Congress. At the outset of his campaign, the so-called smart money bet against him, rendering his task slightly less enviable than shoveling you-know-what uphill in a high wind. Despite receiving the Democratic nomination at the District Convention, he saw high-profile predecessor Martin Sabo back, big wheel, State Senator Ember Reichgott Junge ganged up against him and backed [first name] Erlandson. Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten launched on a petty campaign of character assassination. Even got on his wife, Kim Ellison, about parking tickets. Power brokers and opinion-making media had the deck stacked. Well, he resonated with voters. “The issues”, he recalls about his campaign platform, “peace, working class prosperity, environmental stability and human rights, drew attention to critical issues affecting the country. Despite the conventional wisdom, people don’t vote religion or race, block voting. [They] vote issues and interests. Their hopes, what they care about.” Concerning his religion, Ellison states that he’s not a Muslim congressman but a congressman who happens to be Muslim. “So, I’m just trying to push a progressive agenda. [Things like instead of America] “essentially being a military power to building better relationships with [other] nations.” Through concepts like “debt cancellation, fair trade, human rights. These are universal values. Not the province of any one faith. I don’t live my life thinking how I’m different from everybody else.” Supporting Israel and supporting the Muslim world are not mutually exclusive. I support peace, negotiations to settle conflicts. [That's] something good for Israelis and Palestinians. My nation, the U.S., hasn’t been an active player in the struggle for peace.” For Martin Luther King Day, Ellison put elbow-grease where his mouth is, not just talking like a humanist, but literally rolling up his sleeves – in a jam-packed day of public appearances – to help the needy (and, look it up, most poor people don’t even vote). He was at Second Harvest Heartland, arguably Minnesota’s most vital food bank, helping folk get canned goods ready for distribution. I couldn’t resist asking whether this wasn’t a p.c. photo-opp. Ellison promptly responded. “Symbols matter. [They] inspire, provoke. If a picture goes out with me [volunteering] to help homeless people, poor people get food, that could have the effect of inspiring [other] people to volunteer, too.” Ellison’s being in Congress has, of course, impacted family life. For good and not so good. “The down side is being away from family. The upside, I have the chance to try and help America chart a new course…to get out of the economy of oil and smokestacks and [stop] getting bogged down in war after war. To choose a new way forward. It’s an opportunity to be part of the solution.” Kim reflects, “The family has definitely been enriched. Our daughter and her friend were inspired to start a group, Children for Change, [which] they envision will engage youth to be actively involved in shaping their futures. I’m working with the District Office to begin a youth board that shows the importance of community service. [And I] had the pleasure of introducing high school seniors to Michelle Obama and Maxine Waters when they came to town.” She adds, “I [enjoy being] able to expose others to their government.” Of the job itself, Keith Ellison says, “One of the joys is being able to learn from individuals like Barney Frank and John Conyers. They’re my committee chairs, but they’ve also become mentors. I get to be around the most amazing people. Like Jim Oberstar from Minnesota. Nobody knows more about transportation and infrastructure. And Tim Wald from Minnesota. Nancy Pelosi, she’s one of the finest leaders I’ve had the opportunity to know. She’s putting a foundation together that will carry us into a progressive future. Being in Congress, everyday is a seminar on something. You’re sittin’ down, you learn from your colleagues, from you constituents. It’s an unbridled joy. [And] I’m just getting started.” This is not your run-of-the-mill elected official. As Dick Gregory once said, “It’s time for statesmen to enter the political arena instead of politicians.” U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison shows signs of having done just that.
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