Samira Siddique is director of strategic initiatives at the Center for Earth Ethics. She has extensive experience in global climate change justice, spanning the politics of aid and development, climate displacement, and movement building around the spiritual, ethical and cultural dimensions of the climate crisis. She is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Climate School.
David Delgado of the San Mateo Jubilee Circle has a job in the Puebla state government that is also part of his Jubilee ministry. It’s a holistic ministry of building bridges where there were none. He connects civil society with communities of faith. Social transformation happens … sometimes. So gather under the Jubilee tree to hear his story. Tell us what you think.
Some people with great wealth seek to change direction and share what’s come to them. Others feel the lure of more, and great harm to all of society happens through their decisions. Lack of any consciousness for justice, combined with great wealth, destroys so many people.
This Easter was different. I went to church and then drove to the Otay Mesa Detention Center where at 1:30 Sunday morning, protestors had gathered for 24 straight Sundays to cheer hundreds of refugees being held in what was formerly a Womens’ Prison now operated by a private company.
Della is a Renegade Economist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She teaches workshops and retreats about alternative economics around the world, and offers consulting to organizations, businesses, and local governments, contributing to equitable and sustainable economic systems change.