Liberation Theology
Liberation theology is a movement within various religious traditions that emphasizes the importance of social justice and the rights of the poor and oppressed. It teaches that faith should actively address and transform social inequality.
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- Reposted by Liberation Theology"If you look at places where there’s a vibrant local newspaper, government waste goes down significantly, straight-ticket voting goes down, people feel connected to the community and there is a sense of local responsibility." sojo.net/articles/int...
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- Reposted by Liberation TheologyRead ahead to find out about nobigdyl.’s thoughts on the South, politics, the Confederate flag, and why he thinks the voting ballot has become the Eucharist for some Christians. sojo.net/articles/int...
- Reposted by Liberation TheologyChip Berlet (1949-2026) When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one who made the first moves. He gave us the blueprint that antifascist researchers go by today. Thank you, Chip, we will take it from here.
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- The Wharton School of Business estimates that U.S. taxpayers are charged an average $70,236 per deportee to arrest, detain/monitor, process, and remove undocumented immigrants, based on averaging two studies. In that breakdown, detention/monitoring is the largest cost component. 🧵1/2
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- Reposted by Liberation Theology🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
- Reposted by Liberation TheologyOrganizers of the National Prayer Breakfast invite Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez, the dictator of El Salvador, best know for his torture camps and friendly relations with drug cartels, as a featured speaker. The invitation is a good demonstration of the political values of Christian Nationalists.
- Reposted by Liberation TheologyCentral theme of Trump's remarks to the National Prayer Breakfast: bombing and invading other nations. The crowd loves it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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- Reposted by Liberation TheologyImmigration agents have shot a dozen people since Sept--yet police are often skipping any investigation. After agents near Chicago killed a man, an officer asked if chief who would investigate. The answer: “You’re not going to investigate a federal officer”
- Reposted by Liberation TheologyThe Washington Post, one of the largest newspapers in the U.S., has announced that it is laying off a third of all staff. If Bezos paid out $100 million to the paper today, his net worth would go from $248.7 billion to $248.6 billion.
- Reposted by Liberation TheologyWhen current Post CEO Will Lewis took over operation of the paper in 2024, he told staff that the paper had lost $177 million over the past two years — however Bezos’s company, Amazon, just spent $75 million on a propagandistic movie about President Trump’s wife.
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- Reposted by Liberation TheologyThe US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
- Reposted by Liberation TheologyFor every year from 1994 to 2023, immigrants in the US paid more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government. Check out the latest study from Cato’s David Bier.
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- Evangelicals always have a (terrible) opinion on the latest cultural issue. But suddenly, on the Epstein files? Silence. No accountability. Which, frankly, is exactly what you’d expect—because white evangelicalism is an unaccountable movement. Via @timwhitaker.bsky.social
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- Saint Oscar Romero is sometimes celebrated for his nonviolence. But he and other clergy and their faithful followers died from that nonviolence. Did nonviolence achieve social change, or did their deaths force people to resort to change through violence? 🧵1/2
- The MAGA 40 percent of U.S. Catholics support lawless violence, sexual abuse, imprisonment without trial, and murder by government thugs. What conscientious soul would join or rejoin such a morally corrupt and violent institution? 🧵1/2
- Reposted by Liberation TheologyTaxpayer-funded ‘intellectual freedom centers’ at public universities are part of the effort to push conservative ideology on college students in the guise of civics education, @shayssen.bsky.social reports. Despite their heated political origins, the centers are expanding.
- Reposted by Liberation TheologyIn Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
- Reposted by Liberation TheologyMedia, journalism, and the press are not interchangeable terms. Yet they are bound up with one another. Media is the attention industry Journalism is a social practice The press is a key institution in a democracy Put it all together: Journalists who work in the media carry forward "the press." 9/
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