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• Welcoming the “Stranger”
    In 2002, two million immigrant workers earned less than the minimum wage and immigrant women earn substantially lower wages than immigrant men or native women.6 Immigrants, both documented [persons
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• UMW Action Alert: An UnHappy Birthday: The World and International Monetary Fund Turn 60
  Developing countries facing massive debt burdens benefit greatly from debt relief, funding from wealthy countries that can be applied toward debt payments. The Jubilee USA Network, a coalition of ove
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• Corporations: Linking you to the worldUMW Action Alert
  Here are ways that you – the U.S. consumer – are linked to corporations and the effects they have on local and global communities: Your Morning Coffee: Coffee is the U.S.’s second largest import after
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• Action: Foreign Aid
  U.S. foreign aid is seen by many as an essential component of U.S. foreign policy. ’”[1] Foreign aid is used to provide assistance for; peace; development; supporting U.S. political and security goa
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  ”4 According to the Urban Institute Immigration Studies Program, “immigrants compose an increasingly large share of the U.S. labor force and a growing share of low-wage workers. Immigrants, both docum
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  Workers in manufacturing jobs, also known as “blue collar workers,” have long been exposed to foreign competition, losing jobs to lower wages abroad. ”2 India and China are the leading destinations fo
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• Outsourcing of Jobs
  Workers in manufacturing jobs, also known as ìblue collar workers,î have long been exposed to foreign competition, losing jobs to lower wages abroad. † In addition, others fear that shifting jobs offs
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• Corinth at the Time of Paul's Arrival
  | Society | Geography | Economy | Links | Tour Corinth | Youth | Becoming! Corinth was located directly south of the Corinthian Gulf, on the Peloponnesian side (southern Greece) of the Isthmus
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• ACTION ALERTCôte d’Ivoire: A Country in Distress, An Opportunity to Act
  For three decades following its independence from France in 1960, Côte d’Ivoire, also known as the Ivory Coast, had one of Africa’s strongest economies and was politically a pillar of stability in a r
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• “Water is Life”
    Two million cubic miles of water is found in the earth within a one-half mile surface of earth; seven million cubic miles of water can be found in glaciers and ice caps; and only 60,000 cubic miles
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• Travel Responsibly
  The resolution looks at the impact of travel and tourism on local economies, disadvantaged communities, women and children, Indigenous peoples, and the environment. Then, it asks all United Methodists
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• American Experiment: Protestantism in the 1700s and 1800s (The Bible: The Book that Bridges the Millennia)
  During the same period, native peoples of North America found themselves forced off their tribal lands as U.S. national boundaries expanded further westward. In America, Deists and Protestants forg
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• ACTION ALERT: Ivory Coast
  ACTION ALERT: Côte d’Ivoire: A Country in Distress, An Opportunity to Act June 2003 From: UNITED METHODIST WOMEN’S ACTION NETWORK Women’s Division – General Board of Global Ministries 100 Maryland Ave
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• Cote d'Ivoire: A Country in Distress, An Opportunity to Act
  In 1990, Houphouet-Boigny, leader of the Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI), lifted the ban on opposition parties in elections and won Côte d’Ivoire’s first multi- party presidential election. A
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  The report identifies the most urgent needs of developing nations -- development, security, human rights, health care, and environmental sustainability, among others - and discusses strategies for me
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  Borrowing this phrase, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, an African theologian, originated the term, "Hearthhold of God. " The Spirit of God is groaning on our behalf, interceding with God. In times such as this,
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• World's Women
  Sandy Schilen, the national facilitator for the National Congress of Neighborhood Women ended the meeting with a speech on "The State of the World's Women." She stated that rural women in all areas of
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• Women From Around the World and Free Trade
  January 30, 2002-- In preparation for a March United Nations conference on "Financing for Development," the Women’s Division of The United Methodist Church has been dialoguing with more than 100 women
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• MISSION OUTREACH NOTES
  DESCRIPTION: To provide camping opportunities for Palestinian children living in crises situations, including programs to address trauma, political violence; conflict resolution; and psychological wel
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• Women's Division Grants 2000
  The following provides a brief description of the organization, the amount of the grant in 2000, a web link to the organization, a scriptural basis for the grant, and a reference from the United Metho
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