May 2025 Jubileo: News & Updates
In 2000, as a new millennium began, so did Jubilee Economics Ministries (JEM). A Core Group met monthly in Chicago and planned a couple of trips to Chiapas, Mexico, in support of Indigenous people and Fair Trade growers. At that time, the Indigenous Zapatista Movement came to international attention as they protested NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and other strategies of globalization that oppressed them. One elder told us, “NAFTA and globalization are the latest forms of genocide.”