Entries Tagged as 'Social Justice'

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

One day before the race

I’m feel­ing a mix of antic­i­pa­tion and excite­ment (“wow! a real marathon!” “wow! SF is cool!”) with a bit of fear as well (“will I make it to the fin­ish line with­out an explod­ing kneecap or total quad dom­i­na­tion??”) as race day approaches fast!
I’m excited, no doubt. Tony and I are going to run this […]

Friday, July 25th, 2008

IJM Part III: How you can help">Running for IJM Part III: How you can help

Sup­port us as we run for the IJM! I’ve opened up a dona­tion link through an appli­ca­tion called Causes. You can go ahead and donate via credit card as shown:
Donate to the cause online! »
We hope to hit our fundrais­ing tar­get of $1000 by race day (August 3rd). That’s only NINE days away. I’ll be keeping […]

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Explaining my framework for action (and how Grace plays into it all)

Bowen asked me a good ques­tion on my last post–“Any rea­son why IJM in par­tic­u­lar?”
I answered to the effect that 1) it was the first orga­ni­za­tion that my friends had men­tioned to me regard­ing human traf­fick­ing and 2) I have an older friend who worked there a cou­ple of years ago.
I want to fol­low that up […]

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

IJM Part I: Who they are and why I care">Running for IJM Part I: Who they are and why I care

The Inter­na­tional Jus­tice Mis­sion is a Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tion that fights modern-day human traf­fick­ing. I’m going to spend a lit­tle bit of time intro­duc­ing them to you and tell you why I care about this cause.
The modern-day slave trade
Last semes­ter, a few friends of mine taught a DeCal course on “The Mod­ern Slave Trade”. I had the privilege […]