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Residents Collaborate for Change

“We are here to change the paradigm, how you think, about public housing residents,” says Lashkela “Nikki” Steele, the Parliamentarian and Service Coordinator for J-Rab (Jurisdiction Resident Advisory Board) Inc. J-Rab advocates for social justice and represents more than 15,000 public housing residents.

Nikki shares how J-Rab’s business and service coordination center is working through the six “p’s” to prosperity. The first task is planning and looking at residents who have capacities and skills that are marketable. They are bringing resident-owned businesses together and supporting them. “There is good every single day that goes on (in public housing),” she says.

A mother of three and grandmother of 11, Nikki is a Sullivan Community College graduate and aspires to receive a Bachelor’s and then Master’s degree. Listen to her talk at the “Sanctuary as Jubilee” Community Forum and Conversation:

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Faith Communities Form Sanctuary Movement

How does the world we live in give rise to the need for sanctuary as Jubilee? In response to vulnerable community members and undocumented immigrants the Cincinnati faith community is knitting together a sanctuary movement, with roots after the Hebrew scriptures cities of refuge. Places of worship are viewed as a safe place, and 17 congregations are offering sanctuary.

Rev. Troy Jackson, Executive Director at the AMOS Project and former Senior Pastor at the University Christian Church, discusses how Jubilee involves a restoration of property and place and equalizing.

Listen to Rev. Jackson’s message from the Economics of Compassion Initiative’s “Sanctuary as Jubilee” forum:

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Jubilee Forum 4 – Professor Waleed El-Ansary

Jubilee Forum 4, December 3, 2015

Professor Waleed El-Ansary, Islamic Scholar and Xavier Professor of Islamic Studies, speaking from the perspective of the Koran and Islamic culture on debt and economics. This includes how the land and earnings were committed to the common good. This means there was no such thing as consumer debt. He also explains the close connection between art, production and the presence of God. There was never a separation between science, work and spiritual meaning.

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Jubilee Forum 3 – Reverend Rob Rhodes

Jubilee Forum 3, October 29, 2015

Reverend Rob Rhodes, host of Jubilee Forum 3 at Christ Church Cathedral, speaks in a very personal way about how financial institutions can draw us into debt almost without notice. The ease and subsequently high cost of debt pairs with the seduction of a certain life style to put us into very difficult conditions.  He also notes that debt has become a substitute for increased wages. In the end Jubilee is not just about forgiveness, it also about liberation.

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Jubilee Forum 2 – Reverend Rob Rhodes

Jubilee Forum 2, September 3, 2015

Reverend Rob Rhodes of Christ Church Cathedral speaks of the Kingdom of God in contrast to the Kingdom of Pharaoh, and the presence of Jubilee in the New Testament.  The idea of Jubilee has existed at times, now is the time of remembering it, living the Gospel, bringing it into our community, embracing an alternative economy, as the center of Christianity.

 

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Jubilee Forum 1 – Rev. Damon Lynch III

Reverend Damon Lynch III welcomes us to New Prospect Baptist Church as the Village Well. He connects the biblical idea of Jubilee to our modern cultural struggles. He quotes extensively from the Randall Robinson book: The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks and narrates the story of a black male over the generations.  He explores what this means for us today.

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Integrative Law: A Legal System that Builds Relationships

Atty Kim Wright

Kim Wright talks with Peter Block , John McKnight and guest caller Edgar Cahn about being an Integrative Lawyer and her practice of Restorative Justice: an alternative way of dealing with crimes and taking a holistic approach that factors in emotions of both parties. She speaks about how Restorative Justice is not well received by many who practice law, and touches on how it started with Nelson Mandela. Kim also explains Therapeutic Jurisprudence: a way to create solutions rather than unhelpful punishments, and discusses the related practice of Unitive Justice.

 

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