About our Organizing Collaborative
Join us in the work we’re doing across our regions
advocacy summits
2023-2024!!!
CORE Coordinators, leaders and students spent the fall building relationships and identifying their top advocacy priorities for 2023 - 2024! Now they are gearing up for the Ignatian Advocacy Day in Sacramento, the Ignatian Advocacy Summit in Seattle, and an advocacy summit in mid-winter in Phoenix. Learn more and see how you can get involved below!
At the Capitol, before meeting with Legislators and Legislative staff, students participate in a public witness to share their experiences related to their top social concerns: housing, ecology, and migration.
Video of the 2023 California Ignatian Advocacy Summit, made for us by Jess Carbajal of Loyola High Los Angeles!
Ingnatian advocacy summits
Save the Dates for Advocacy 2024
Arizona Advocacy summit
January 31
phoenix
Following up on their recent victory on in-state tuition, students, parishioners and Jesuit leaders will spend the fall discerning their next steps, deepening ongoing work on migration, climate and housing, and design a joint day of action on January 31st, 2024, at the Phoenix State Capital. This Summit is led by students at Brophy College Preparatory with collaboration with ALIENTO.
April 14 - April 15
Jesuit high Sacramento
Join students from across California as they lead all California Jesuit works in a day of prayer, reflection and advocacy. See video.
February 22 - February 24
Seattle university
Parishioners, students, Jesuits, social ministry leaders and others will come together for a 3-day summit moving through the pastoral cycle and helping us understand how we make justice real in our local context. Participants will engage in direct encounter with local experts, university faculty, and do direct advocacy with local officials.
Contact UWeJustice@Jesuits.org for more information.
Intergenerational conversations
on faith and justice
in preparation for the summits, jesuit school students will be inviting ministries in their area to small group intergenerational conversations on serving a faith that does justice.
These conversations will be led by students, but provide an opportunity for adults and youth to listen to one another and share their own perspectives. Together, adults and youth will pray, dialogue and discern how they’re being called to support one another on issues of justice and ecology. Conversations will be held in early November, organized by the local works with template materials and any desired logistical support provided by the Province.
For more information or to set up an intergenrrational conversation in your local area, contact UWEJustice@Jesuits.org
Register a screening of the letter
Host a local showing of the Pope Francis’s new film about his encyclical on ecology
more about our organizing collaborative
Jesuits West CORE is made up of 4 regionally based CORE teams, composed of representatives from local Jesuit works, in cities spanning from Alaska to Arizona.
Impelled by our shared Catholic Faith, Jesuit Charisms, and the needs of our community and our world to hear the call for Racial Equity, our teams are listening, learning, organizing and advocating together to be a more powerful force for racial equity and justice.
What we’ve done
Over the last 3 years, our regional teams have educated their communities on racial justice, build partnership with community groups led by people of color, and taken action in the public sphere. This has included everything from phone banking disenfranchised voters, to running racial equity trainings, to holding vigils and advocacy meetings with elected officials.
Our work spans immigration to racial equity in housing to restorative justice, solidarity with indigenous peoples, environmental justice and beyond.
Below is a list of just some of what we’re doing. For more up to date information, get in touch with your local CORE Coordinators by contacting UWEJustice@jesuits.org.
Recent work and focus by region:
Arizona: Immigration and Homelessness
Alaska: Climate and Covid
Los Angeles: Covid Response, Immigration and Housing
Missoula: Solidarity with Native Peoples and Climate Justice
Portland: Racial Equity in Housing
Spokane: Healing and Solidarity with Native Peoples
Seattle: Restorative Justice Policies
San Francisco: Housing Equity and Covid Response Equity
San Jose: Housing Equity and Covid Response Equity
San Diego: Racial Equity Accountability Groups and Immigration
Sacramento: Voting Rights and Racial Equity
Resources for CORE COORDINATORS
A private resource folder for CORE Coordinators, including the application for the CORE Micro-Grants