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In this week's issue, we want to draw your attention to the social justice issue of hunger and homelessness. Annually, during the week preceding Thanksgiving, the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness co-sponsor National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. During this week, schools and communities across the country participate in efforts to highlight the problems of hunger and homelessness. This week also provides us opportunities to reflect and act as a community about these serious issues.

At HNU this week, we took part in a Hunger Banquet and we will have a Thanksgiving Dinner. You will have the opportunity to make soup for the homeless and listen to a panel of speakers about Hunger.

I look forward to seeing you at events this week. Your support and action will make an important difference in someone's life.
Michael Miller, Vice President for Student Affairs
Spotlight on Service and Social Justice

Hunger and Homelessness Week Highlights
By Tom Cunningham

This week marks the First Annual Hunger & Homelessness week on the HNU campus. Throughout the week there are a variety of opportunities to get involved and educate yourselves around the issues of hunger and homelessness. It's our hope that this week you take perspective on the things presented and decide that it's unacceptable to do nothing, that you become inspired to take responsibility for your community and take action. Join us in the fight against hunger & homelessness.


The Canned Food Drive, All Week
Please bring your canned goods to be donated to the hungrey. Bins will be placed around campus for your convience.

Oxfam Hunger Banquet
The Hunger Banquet was a dramatization of the inequality that perpetuates poverty in the world. We had around 35 people at the event and guests were assigned roles as they entered the banquet , these roles represented different income levels around the world. It was a unique opportunity for people to take a problem and work together to generate solutions. For details, click here.

The Great American Sleepout, Wednesday November 14th
The Great American Sleep Out is another dramatization of the inequality that perpetuates poverty in the world. Students spend the night sleeping outdoors in boxes and learn how it feels to sleep on the ground, with no shelter. Sign Up at front desk and contact Tom Cunningham for more info.

Find out all about the Hunger and Homelessness week programing by clicking here.
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Spotlight on Service and Social Justice

By John Bowman

Nine students from Holy Names University will join thousands from across the nation Nov. 16-19 at Fort Benning, Georgia, to demand a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign policy and the closure of the U.S. Army's controversial School of the Americas (SOA).

This is the fourth consecutive year a delegation from HNU has participated in the protest. This year, the delegation will consist of 12 members of the Holy Names University family. They are: Students - Angelica Lopez, Gina Cagnalotti, Miya Frank, Tiffany Ho, Sharlay Murdock, Christina Merlos, Jennifer Perkins, Michelle Girardot and Jason Voss. Advisors - Professor Chris Patrinos, snjm, PhD; Jose Rangel and Jennifer Courtright.

They will be among thousands of people who stage a vigil near the fort, protesting training of military forces who have been accused of torturing and killing civilians in South America.

Opened in 1946, the SOA is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers. In its 60-year history, the school has taught more than 64,000 Latin American soldiers in courses such as counterinsurgency, psychological warfare, military intelligence, and interrogation tactics. Graduates of the school have consistently been linked to human rights violations and to the suppression of popular movements in the Americas.

The SOA, now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, made headlines in 1996 when the Pentagon released training manuals used at the school that advocated torture, extortion and execution. Despite this admission and hundreds of documented human rights abuses connected to soldiers trained at the school, no independent investigation into the facility has ever taken place.
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