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they walk, and walk…

Vote for Joe Posted on March 11, 2010 by Joe SchrinerMarch 11, 2010

At the Open Door Community in Atlanta, Georgia, there is a “foot clinic” every Wednesday evening.   Volunteer medical students, nurses and the like, give homeless people massaging foot baths, trim toe nails, medicate sores, cut out corns…   It’s … Continue reading →

sea of irrelevance

Vote for Joe Posted on March 10, 2010 by Joe SchrinerMarch 10, 2010

We continue our Georgia On My Mind Tour (Is that original, or what?)   We are at the Open Door Community in Atlanta for this phase of the tour, as we continue to look at urban poverty issues.   The … Continue reading →

everyone has enough…

Vote for Joe Posted on March 9, 2010 by Joe SchrinerMarch 9, 2010

I gave a talk to some 40 people at the Open Door Community   in Atlanta, Georgia, today.   The gentleman who introduced me, prefaced the talk by reading from Proverbs 30: 7-9.     The crux of the passage … Continue reading →

the streets of Atlanta

Vote for Joe Posted on March 8, 2010 by Joe SchrinerMarch 8, 2010

We have come to the Open Door Community near the heart of urban Atlanta, Georgia, to look at poverty issues.   The Open Door is a Catholic Worker Community that takes in the homeless and also provides regular meals and … Continue reading →

not everyone is free yet

Vote for Joe Posted on March 7, 2010 by Joe SchrinerMarch 7, 2010

In remembrance of the anniversary of Bloody Sunday 1965, which was honored today in Selma, Alabama, my son Jonathan and I went to the King Center in Atlanta.   A tribute to the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the … Continue reading →

road blocks and ant hills

Vote for Joe Posted on March 7, 2010 by Joe SchrinerMarch 7, 2010

I met with Alterna’s Anton Flores one more time before leaving LaGrange.   (Alterna, again, is a small community of Hispanic immigrants living in a cluster of homes on one block here.)   As part of Flores’s work with Alterna, … Continue reading →

the other side of the tracks…

Vote for Joe Posted on March 6, 2010 by Joe SchrinerMarch 6, 2010

Three young couples from Texas, Iowa and Ohio, respectively, have come to LaGrange, Georgia, as part of a MissionYear   Project.   They are volunteering for the Alterna Community here, which is a cluster of homes set up for immigrant … Continue reading →

changing the structure…

Vote for Joe Posted on March 6, 2010 by Joe SchrinerMarch 6, 2010

I met with Hispanic social activist Anton Flores for a second time Wednesday in LaGrange, Georgia.   He said a key to the immigration issue is looking at the systemic issues behind the poverty and violence that drives many people … Continue reading →

let’s just blow the world up: once

Vote for Joe Posted on March 6, 2010 by Joe SchrinerMarch 6, 2010

I was interviewed by the LaGrange Daily News the other day.   I said to reporter Joel Martin that in some areas I would be viewed as quite liberal, while in other areas I would be viewed as quite conservative … Continue reading →

“Restore”

Vote for Joe Posted on March 5, 2010 by Joe SchrinerMarch 5, 2010

We  toured a Habitat for Humanity “ReStore”   in LaGrange, Georgia, today.   While there, I interviewed store employee Zach Maxon and store manager Donna Weathers.   I learned the ReStore is a second hand store for construction material.   … Continue reading →

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