Social Justice Education Programs

These are programs or activities that are designed to inform and heighten the awareness the entire Loyola community on the issues of social justice. Some programs offer opportunities for involvement with people experiencing these issues. 

Members of the Loyola Community are invited to plan and facilitate the individual events. Activities/events from past years have included: 

• Commemoration of the Martyrs of Central America
  We commemorate the Salvadoran martyrs: church women, Jesuits, Bishop Romero as well as the thousands of civilians who gave their lives while fighting for justice in El Salvador.
• Churchwomen Martyr Celebration
• Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Activities
  Activities are designed to inform and educate the entire Loyola community about people who are materially poor, hungry and/or homeless, as well as to offer opportunities for involvement with people experiencing these situations.
• Fast and Sleep Out
  A 24-hour event where members of the Loyola community fast and sleep out on the quad and listen to speakers in a “Faces of Homelessness” panel, etc. to learn about and be in solidarity with those who are homeless.
• Ignatian Solidarity Awareness Events
  We plan, sponsor and/or collaborate with others on various activities concerning the closing of the School of the Americas (SOA)/Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). This involves education and awareness of human rights issues, a planned trip to participate in the vigil to close the school in Georgia (in November) along with other Jesuit institutions, and lobby training with visits to representatives in Washington, D.C. in February. The Ignatian Family Teach-In is an annual gather that serves both to honor the Jesuits and other martyrs in El Salvador and to protest the activities of the US military and government in the region. We commemorate the Salvadoran martyrs: church women, Jesuits, Bishop Romero as well as the thousands of civilians who gave their lives while fighting for justice in El Salvador.
• Lobby Days
  Health care providers, students, people experiencing homelessness, and advocates for people who are materially poor gather in Annapolis in support of programs and policies that help prevent the un-natural disasters of poverty, hunger, and homelessness from devastating the lives of the most vulnerable Marylanders.
• Peace Path
• “Meet and Eat”
  Brings together the Loyola College community and the Baltimore community on the Evergreen Campus to foster communication and connection with people from different backgrounds through sharing a meal together.
• Social Justice Stations of the Cross
• Care-A-Van
  Volunteers share food and conversation with people in the heart of Baltimore City. (With the events that transpired this fall, students got involved with City government and other SHARP agencies).
• Students involved in City Commission on Homelessness
• Social Justice Speakers:
• • Peace and War Speakers - Fr. Simon Harak and Jonah House, and Global
  • Exchange speakers - Delegations to Iraq
  • Sr. Josephine - Women In India
  • Deysi Romero speaking on Women and Human Rights in El Salvador
  • CRISPAZ speaker on El Salvador History and Present Reality
  • Catholic Relief Services – AIDS
  • Project Mexico Sponsored Panel on Immigration
  • Nike Speakers on Sweatshop Issues
  • PETA to speak on Animal Rights and Philosophy of being vegetarian
  • Panels on Homelessness and Affordable Housing Needs
  • Speakers on Child Abuse and Neglect
  • Habitat for Humanity Panel
  • Race and the Katrina