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Fashion Revolution (Reimagined!)

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Join us for this unique, online event to raise awareness of ethical alternatives to “fast fashion” and learn ways to be in solidarity with garment workers around the world as they seek justice.  From 2:00 pm-3:30 pm, this Friday, April 24th.

::: CONVERSATION WITH ELIZABETH L. CLINE :::
An expert on consumer culture, fast fashion, sustainability, and labor rights, Elizabeth is also the author of “Overdressed” and “The Conscious Closet:.” She will be interviewed by Chicago writer/theologian Liz Lwanga. (Learn more about Elizabeth and her journalism and writing career at https://www.elizabethclinebooks.com/about)

::: ETHICAL FASHION SHOWCASE :::
Check out ethical styles, right on your screen, from student models and Chicago fair trade brands!

QUESTIONS?
For more information, contact Dr. Christie Klimas at cklimas@depaul.edu.

WHAT’S FASHION REVOLUTION?
Fashion Revolution Week occurs every year in remembrance of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh. The building housed 5 garment factories, all manufacturing clothing for global brands. On April 24, 2013, due to gross negligence of safe working conditions, the building collapsed, killing 1,138 people and injuring 2,500. Most of the victims were young women. (Learn more about the global Fashion Revolution movement at https://www.fashionrevolution.org.)

Earth Day and Laudato Si’

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Almost 5 years ago in 2015, Pope Francis released Laudato Si’, a papal response to the global environmental crisis that outlines a vision for our common home. Mission and Ministry produced a documentary about Pope Francis’ encyclical and interviewed several environmental experts in a short documentary. As we reflect on the rapid changes in our world today, it is important to consider that slow and gradual changes also need our attention.

St. Vincent and Sustainability

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In this reflection, Scott Kelley, PhD, imagines a conversation with Vincent de Paul in which he explains to Vincent the earth’s current ecological, economic, and technological challenges to sustainability.  As these were not within the imagining of Vincent in his day, Dr. Kelley describes the issues then imagines what Vincent would say in offering guidance.  Reflecting on Vincent’s Christ the Evangelizer, especially as Evangelizer of the poor, Scott offers five ways that we can bring good news to the poor today.

This reflection is unpublished at present.

Care for our Common Home – A Vincentian Response to Laudato Si’

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In June 2015 Pope Francis released Laudato Si’, a papal response to the global environmental crisis that outlines a vision for our common home. DePaul University offers an urban education that prepares students to address the ecological challenges we face in the 21st century.