Take Action and Resources
The SCSJ hopes to inspire students to analyze, engage, and challenge the structural systems that often perpetuate injustice in our local, national, and international communities. Through the student “Ignatian Advocacy Team,” we find and facilitate ways students can make their voices heard and enact change.
General resource from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States:
Ignatian Advocacy Team
- If you would like to get involved with the SCSJ Advocacy Team, contact Kelly Tadeo Orbik.
In suggesting justice and advocacy opportunities relevant to our work and/or priorities, the SCSJ relies on the research, expertise, and experience of trusted partners.
National and International
- Catholic Charities
- Catholic Climate Covenant
- Catholic Relief Services
- Ignatian Solidarity Network
- Jesuit Advocacy
- Jesuit Refugee Service
- Network: Lobby for Catholic Social Justice
- Pax Christi
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Local
- Omaha Together One Community
- Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest
- Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty
- Nebraska Voices for Children
From the Ignatian & Jesuit Community
- Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus
- Ignatian Advocacy Workshop
- “Characteristics of the Social Apostolate of the Jesuits”
- Ignatian Solidarity Network
- Jesuit Refugee Service
- Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Other Sources (when relevant to our work)
Books, Movies and Media
| Ackerman & Kruegler, Strategic Nonviolent Conflict : The Dynamics of People & Power in the Twentieth Century | Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House |
| Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals | Jill Bamburg, Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business Without Selling Out |
| Steve Biko, I Write What I Like | Joan Bondurant, Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict |
| Dean Brackley, The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times | James Brockman, Romero: A Life |
| Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Walter Brueggeman, The Prophetic Imagination |
| Ernesto Cardenal, The Gospel in Solentiname | Catholic Bishops, The Challenge of Peace; Economic Justice for All |
| Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers | Mark Chmiel, The Book of Mev |
| Noam Chomsky, Failed States | James Cone, Martin and Malcolm and America |
| Jacqueline Cramer, Corporate Social Responsibility and Globalization | Mark Danner, The Massacre at El Mozote |
| Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness; Loaves and Fishes | F. Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave |
| W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk | Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickeled and Dimed |
| Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man | Robert Ellsberg, All Saints |
| Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza,In Memory of Her | Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed |
| Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America | Mohandas Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth |
| Gustavo Gutierrez, A Theology of Liberation | Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed |
| Chris Hedges, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning | John Hersey, Hiroshima |
| David Hilfiker, Not All of Us Are Saints | Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork |
| John XXIII, Pacem in Terris | John Kavanaugh, Following Christ in a Consumer Society |
| Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains (on Dr. Paul Farmer) | Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have A Dream: Writings & Speeches That Changed the World |
| Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities | Staughton & Alice Lynd, Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History |
| Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet; World Hunger: Twelve Myths | Penny Lernoux, Cry of the People |
| Peggy MacIntosh, White Privilege | The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
| Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom | Thomas Merton, The Nonviolent Alternative |
| Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society | John Niehardt, Black Elk Speaks |
| Albert Nolan, Jesus Before Christianity | Paul VI, Populorum Progressio |
| Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking | Rainer Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Oscar Romero, The Violence of Love | Gene Sharp, Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential |
| Sobrino & Ellacuria, Companions of Jesus: The Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador | Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark |
| John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath | Henry David Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience |
| Desmond Tutu, No Future without Forgiveness | Jim Wallis, God’s Politics |
| Elie Wiesel, Night | Walter Wink, Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way |
| The Journal of John Woolman | Richard Wright, Black Boy |
| John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus | Gordon Zahn, In Solitary Witness: The Life and Death of Franz Jaegerstatter |
| Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States | Alexandra Harney, The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage |
| David Schmitdz and Robert E. Goodin, Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility (For and Against) | Mike Blowfield and Alan Murray, Corporate Responsibility: A Critical Introduction |
| Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-shirt in a Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade | Steven K. May, George Cheney, and Julity Roper, The Debate over Corporate Social Responsibility |
| The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility | Corporate Responsibility: A Critical Introduction |
List provided by Dr. Roger Bergman, Director of Justice and Peace Studies
The Blueprint for Social Justice is published monthly by Loyola New Orleans and features one well-informed but not academic article per issue. Topics have ranged from poverty to race to war to films on social justice themes.
The newsletter for the Center of Concern in Washington, DC, a Catholic social justice “think tank,” is monthly and contains good short articles on issues of global justice.
The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies is a scholarly quarterly containing articles on a wide range of topics.
The Journal of Catholic Social Thought is a very substantial scholarly journal, published twice a year, each issue focusing on a particular theme.
The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning is the premiere outlet for scholarship on service-learning.
