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the twenty five years since she graduated from Forest Ridge, Linda
Haydock, SNJM, has worked unceasingly for Social Justice. In her days
as a Campus minister at Holy Names Academy, Linda travelled with her
students to El Salvador and Kenya where she challenged them to a
rigorous and unsentimental analysis of the inequities they were seeing.
Now, as Director of the Intercommunity Peace and Justice Center in
Seattle, WA., she has expanded the scope of her teaching mission.
The IPJC (as the Center is called) is sponsored by eight religious congregations
ministering in the Northwest, including the Religious of the Sacred Heart.
The mission of the center is to promote just structures and systemic change,
with a special emphasis on the economic injustices that affect women and
children . While the Center does offer consciousness raising programs for
Teen Agers, (such as the Seattle Urban Plunge program), it is also initiated
a very successful spirituality and empowerment program for adult women called
WEAVERS: Women's Experience and Voice Expressed in Ritual and Story. Now
in its fifth year, WEAVERS has involved over 2500 women at 50 sites and
led to the creation of a book of women's rituals and a companion tape, called
We are Sisters. In addition, the center publishes a journal A Matter of Spirit which provided theological reflection, social analysis and tools for practical action on justice issues.
"Who I am is, in large measure, a result of RSCJ influence,"
Linda says, "With a Sacred Heart education comes the gift of being
part of a world©wide family. I ask myself "How can I best use
this gift for the sake of the poor in our world?" To learn more about
Linda's work, feel free to contact her at
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