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Salt shakers 2003

December:
Pax Christi USA calls for day of prayer, fasting, and action
Pax Christi USA, the national Catholic peace and justice movement, is calling for individuals and groups to commit themselves to observing December 28, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, as a national day of prayer, fasting, and action.

November:
Looking for Mid-East peace in two new right places
Can "bottom up" initiatives break the increasingly bloody stalemate between Israel and the Palestinian Authority? Two new efforts offer small signs of hope amid the squalor of Mid-East violence.

October:
Caterpillar: bulldozing the Mid East peace process?
The Jewish Voice for Peace charges U.S. manufacturing giant with complicity in Palestinian house demolitions.

September:
Immigrant Workers join a modern Freedom Ride

August:
On Hiroshima anniversary, 'disarming' Los Alamos
Catholic peace activists assembled on August 5 in New Mexico for prayer and a talk from Father John Dear, S.J., as they prepare to 'disarm' Los Alamos National Laboratory tomorrow. These gatherings are organized by Pax Christi New Mexico.

July
Putting an end to some slippery business practices
The Publish What You Pay (PWYP) campaign is an online call for mandatory disclosure of payments to and transactions with governments by multinational natural resource companies, their subsidiaries, and business partners.

June
The mother of all green houses
It's not easy being green, but it's not impossible. That's what the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary discovered when these one-time "Blue Nuns" decided to give their Monroe, Michigan motherhouse a green makover, turning into a multimillion dollar environmental show place.

May
This re-cycling puts the bike brakes on poverty

April
Veterans launch 'Operation Dire Distress' to protest war

March
'Virtual March' against war overwhelms Congress

January
Jobs with justice names its "Grinch of the year."

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