As we continue to respond to the COVID-19 health crisis and prepare to rebuild, organizations across Canada want the governments to know that we cannot go back to the way things were.  Over 150 Canadian organizations have endorsed six principles for a Just Recovery that puts the health and well-being of all peoples and ecosystems first. Learn more. 

 

"The Trump administration has used the COVID-19 pandemic to gut the right to asylum and implement far-reaching changes to our immigration system," according this reflection shared by Hope Border Institute. "While some alterations to the immigration system are necessary to adapt to COVID-19 and keep people safe....a raft of new asylum regulations will make securing protection effectively impossible to win."  What can you do? Read and reflect on Bishop Mark Seitz' Remarks on the Suspension of Due Process at the Border. Then consider submitting comments challenging the Administration's proposed new asylum restrictions - before the July 15 deadline. CLINIC has a resource page to make submitting comments easy - you can find it here. Read LCWR's submitted comments here.

 

This month's U.S. Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking reflection examines human trafficking as a continuation of the persistent legacy of slavery and exploitation going back to European colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade. The reflection invites us "to learn more about this history of slavery, racism and colonialism; lament for the harm done; repent for our complicity both past and present; and begin to make reparations so that this legacy of slavery, abuse, and exploitation finally ends." Read the entire reflection here.  Learn about the role the Doctrine of Discovery played in helping enable this ongoing exploitation.