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Thomas Merton Center
About Us:
The Thomas Merton Center is Pittsburgh's organizing and resource center for peace and social justice. With twenty-six active projects, the Center works to instill a consciousness of values and to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, and oppression. Our members are people from diverse philosophies and faiths who find common ground in the nonviolent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just society.
Since our beginning in 1972, the Center has worked to make peace a way of life for everyone. While our physical location is in Pittsburgh, PA, our activist reach is global, and we invite members to join us in creating peace and justice around the world. Our monthly newspaper - The NewPeople - is a key source of information for activists on current campaigns and events, and our website provides an up-to-date action calendar and a directory of local peace and justice groups. To find out how you can get involved, check out our website!
News
If you're interested in getting involved with the TMC's newly formed Outreach and Community Sustainability Committee, contact intern@thomasmertoncenter.org or join:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=104682208812&ref=mf
Wednesday, July 29 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
GARDEN TALK: SUSTAINABLE FOODS FROM GARDEN TO TABLE
Frick Art & Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds Street (Point Breeze)
Start out with a tour of the Frick gardens and greenhouse with an eye to organic gardening methods employed by Grow Pittsburgh. Next, learn from Patrick Santillo, manager of The Café, the value of supporting the local agricultural community as he shares recipes from the café in which the freshest vegetables and herbs are right outside the door. Dress for the weather; program will take place rain or shine. Cost: $8 members; $10 non-members and guests.
Thursday, July 30 7:30-9:30 p.m.
"BREAD AND ROSES" FILM SCREENING
Pump House (Homestead, on Waterfront Drive)
This film is part of a series that the Battle of Homestead Foundation is running about labor and working class history, including events in Pittsburgh. Maya, an illegal Mexican immigrant in Los Angeles, joins a union organizing drive for office cleaners, a drive based upon the Service Employees International Union’s Justice for Janitors campaign there. As she seeks better living and working conditions, health care and other benefits, Maya confronts obstacles that include deportation, her sister Rosa’s opposition, and the realities of sexual and economic exploitation. This nuanced film presents the complex difficulties of immigrant strikers’ achieving Bread and Roses, the title of a poem (and later a song) written by James Oppenheimer and popularized during the Lawrence Strike of 1912. For more info, contact Millie Beik at mbeik@comcast.net or 412-831-3871.
Friday-Sunday, July 31-August 2
DEMOCRACY WORKS: WORKER COOPERATIVES, LABOR SOLIDARITY, AND SUSTAINABILITY
Duquesne University (Uptown)
Join worker co-ops, majority worker-owned firms, labor and community activists, and support organizations as we move towards sharing our knowledge, strengthening our businesses and the economic democracy movement, and organizing for workplace democracy in the eastern region of the U. S. The conference will focus on how to create a sustainable economy utilizing worker cooperatives and other forms of democratic workplaces. Workshops will focus on what worker cooperatives are, how to create them, improving business skills, building the economic democracy movement, and creating alliances with labor. Conference brochures and registrations will arrive in the spring. For more info, contact Lead Organizer Mary Hoyer at info@east.usworker.coop or Assistant Organizer Lisa Stolarski at lisastolarski@ gmail.com. And check out the website at http://east.usworker.coop.
Contact Info
Email: intern@thomasmertoncenter.org
Website: http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/
Location:
5125 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
The Thomas Merton Center is Pittsburgh's organizing and resource center for peace and social justice. With twenty-six active projects, the Center works to instill a consciousness of values and to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, and oppression. Our members are people from diverse philosophies and faiths who find common ground in the nonviolent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just society.
Since our beginning in 1972, the Center has worked to make peace a way of life for everyone. While our physical location is in Pittsburgh, PA, our activist reach is global, and we invite members to join us in creating peace and justice around the world. Our monthly newspaper - The NewPeople - is a key source of information for activists on current campaigns and events, and our website provides an up-to-date action calendar and a directory of local peace and justice groups. To find out how you can get involved, check out our website!
News
If you're interested in getting involved with the TMC's newly formed Outreach and Community Sustainability Committee, contact intern@thomasmertoncenter.org or join:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=104682208812&ref=mf
Wednesday, July 29 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
GARDEN TALK: SUSTAINABLE FOODS FROM GARDEN TO TABLE
Frick Art & Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds Street (Point Breeze)
Start out with a tour of the Frick gardens and greenhouse with an eye to organic gardening methods employed by Grow Pittsburgh. Next, learn from Patrick Santillo, manager of The Café, the value of supporting the local agricultural community as he shares recipes from the café in which the freshest vegetables and herbs are right outside the door. Dress for the weather; program will take place rain or shine. Cost: $8 members; $10 non-members and guests.
Thursday, July 30 7:30-9:30 p.m.
"BREAD AND ROSES" FILM SCREENING
Pump House (Homestead, on Waterfront Drive)
This film is part of a series that the Battle of Homestead Foundation is running about labor and working class history, including events in Pittsburgh. Maya, an illegal Mexican immigrant in Los Angeles, joins a union organizing drive for office cleaners, a drive based upon the Service Employees International Union’s Justice for Janitors campaign there. As she seeks better living and working conditions, health care and other benefits, Maya confronts obstacles that include deportation, her sister Rosa’s opposition, and the realities of sexual and economic exploitation. This nuanced film presents the complex difficulties of immigrant strikers’ achieving Bread and Roses, the title of a poem (and later a song) written by James Oppenheimer and popularized during the Lawrence Strike of 1912. For more info, contact Millie Beik at mbeik@comcast.net or 412-831-3871.
Friday-Sunday, July 31-August 2
DEMOCRACY WORKS: WORKER COOPERATIVES, LABOR SOLIDARITY, AND SUSTAINABILITY
Duquesne University (Uptown)
Join worker co-ops, majority worker-owned firms, labor and community activists, and support organizations as we move towards sharing our knowledge, strengthening our businesses and the economic democracy movement, and organizing for workplace democracy in the eastern region of the U. S. The conference will focus on how to create a sustainable economy utilizing worker cooperatives and other forms of democratic workplaces. Workshops will focus on what worker cooperatives are, how to create them, improving business skills, building the economic democracy movement, and creating alliances with labor. Conference brochures and registrations will arrive in the spring. For more info, contact Lead Organizer Mary Hoyer at info@east.usworker.coop or Assistant Organizer Lisa Stolarski at lisastolarski@ gmail.com. And check out the website at http://east.usworker.coop.
Contact Info
Email: intern@thomasmertoncenter.org
Website: http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/
Location:
5125 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
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