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Social Justice Newsletter 
December 25, 2014
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The Planning Begins: Reducing Poverty in the Tri-Valley

After several preparatory steps, the last of which involved a meeting on November 13 of over 40 people, a planning and decision-making process will begin on January 8 to set goals, map out the organization and governance of the collaborative's work, and decide on the next steps to be taken.  A $5000 grant from the Y and  H Soda Foundation, http://www.yhsodafoundation.org/, will be used to hire a facilitator to aid this process.
  
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Subsidiarity: Attacking the Big Problems

 

The December 11 issue of this newsletter had an article about Subsidiarity as a principle for promoting cooperation within communities.  The article pointed to homelessness in San Jose as an example of not dealing adequately with a problem.  Today we look at major problems in the U.S. and in the world and seek suggestions as to how current efforts to solve these problems could be improved.

 

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Teens and elders bridge generation gap and digital divide
Teens and elders bridge generation gap and digital divide

Capable Living: A Vision

The video above and the "Capable Living" website demonstrate remarkable competence in identifying needs of elderly people and finding ways to train people to fill those needs.  The organization behind Capable Living can be a model for solving other problems. Problem-solving skills could be used to (1) help unfortunate people in the Tri-Valley overcome poverty or (2) help find possible jobs in many different industries and the requisite training that would be needed by low-skill and poorly educated workers to fill those jobs.  People everywhere can help to identify needed work that could provide needed employment.

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