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ADELA DWYER鈥揝T. THOMAS OF VILLANOVA PEACE AWARD

The Adela Dwyer鈥揝t. Thomas of 麻豆入口 Peace Awardrecognizes an individual or group for outstanding contributions to the understanding of the meaning and conditions of justice and peace in human communities.



2025 RECIPIENT:

FOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE

Monday, October 27

7:00 PM

Connelly Center, 麻豆入口 Room

Peace Award World Central Kitchen

This year鈥檚 award will be presented to the听, a coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food, organizing to improve wages and working conditions for all workers along the food chain. Currently, FCWA has 33 members representing over 375,000 food workers in the US and Canada. FCWA believes in a truly sustainable food system that uplifts workers, communities, and our shared environment; and provides healthy and locally made food for all.

One of the speakers is a former farmworker who will share her personal story in Spanish.听Translation services and headsets will be available听for attendees.

2024: 听Founded in 2010 by Chef Jose虂 Andre虂s, World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a nonprofit organization that is first to the frontlines providing fresh meals in response to crises. Applying our model of quick action, leveraging local resources, and adapting in real time, WCK has served more than 400 million nourishing meals around the world.

2023: 听Chris Smalls is the founder and president of the Amazon Labor Union, an independent, democratic, worker-led labor union at Amazon in Staten Island. He is also the founder of The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW), a nationwide collective of essential workers and allies fighting for better working conditions, better wages, and a better world.

2022: 听IEN's Executive Director听Tom Goldtooth听accepted the award.听 Mr. Goldtooth is an Indigenous change-maker within the environmental, economic, energy, and climate justice movements, who has been defending Indigenous based environmental protection infrastructures for many years. He has recently co-formed the United Frontline Table and its People鈥檚 Orientation to a Regenerative Economy.

2021: 听has picked up the unfinished work of the civil rights movement begun in 1968. People are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.听Rev. Liz Theoharis accepted the award.

2020: is a group in Veracruz, Mexico, working to provide food and assistance to Central American migrants in transit.

2019:听. is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, Calif., the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world.

2018:听 is founder/executive director of the听Equal Justice Initiative.

2017:听 founded A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project (ANWOL) in 1998, dedicating her life to helping others break the cycle of incarceration.

2016:听 is a nonprofit organization which uses the artistry of puppetry to help some of the world's most vulnerable children.

2015:听 commanded the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda prior to and during the 1994 genocide.

2014:听 is one of the largest charities in the Americas devoted to serving homeless and trafficked children and youth, which reaches more than 50,000 trafficked and exploited children and youth.

2013:听听is a national Catholic social justice lobby that has been advocating for peace and justice in Washington for more than 40 years.

2012:听 is a poet, author, cultural critic, conservationist and farmer. Often referred to as a 鈥21-st century Henry David Thoreau,鈥 he has used pen and hand to teach us about our responsibilities for the land and for one another.

2011:听 helped organize and then lead the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, a coalition of Christian and Muslim women who sat in public protest, confronting Liberia鈥檚 ruthless president and rebel warlords.

2010:听 is a community-based organization that strives to build the strength of the community on a basis of reflection and analysis, constant attention to coalition-building across ethnic divisions, and an ongoing investment in leadership development to help their members continually develop their skills in community education and organization.

2009:听听is founder of White Dog Community Enterprises.

2007-08:听The is an anti-graffiti mural program in Philadelphia.

2006:听 is a non-fiction writer, educator and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States.

2005: is a local peace activist who stood opposed to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Berg, with his family, were thrust into the national and international spotlight when his son, Nick Berg, was brutally murdered in Iraq in May 2004.

2004听received the highest award the world can offer鈥攖he Nobel Peace Prize鈥攊n 1984 for his contribution to the cause of racial justice in South Africa.

2003:听 was founded in 1996 to campaign for an end to economic and military warfare against the Iraqi people.

2002:听 is one of America's most prominent political dissidents and a strong advocate for peace and justice.

2001: from Georgia was one of the key figures in the Civil Rights Movement.

2000:听 is a celebrated Jesuit poet, anti-war activist and radical advocate of human rights.

1999:听.听was founded in 1988 and has been a leader in providing comprehensive and effective services to persons who experience chronic homelessness in Philadelphia.

1998:听 MM,听is a Maryknoll priest, social activist and founder of SOA Watch, an organization dedicated to shutting down the infamous School of the Americas (renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).

1997:听 (House of Grace)听is a collection of autonomous听communities of听Catholics听and their associates founded by听Dorothy Day听and听Peter Maurin听in the United States in 1933. Each house has a different mission, going about the work of social justice in its own way, suited to its local region.

1996:听,听is a passionate advocate for abolition of capital punishment and the author of Dead Man Walking, made into a 1995 film starring Susan Sarandon.

1995:听 is an author, preacher, activist and editor of Sojourners, a magazine reporting and analyzing the intersection of faith, politics and culture鈥攎aking a direct link between strong biblical faith and active social engagement, theology and action, spirituality and politics.

1994:听Rev. John P. McNamee听is and author and pastor. Inspired by the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, SJ, he wrote several books of poetry and prose championing the rights of poor persons, including Diary of a City Priest, which was made into an inspiring film for public television in 2001.

1993:听 was a Catholic Worker, author and founder of Pax Christi, USA.

1992:听 is a nonprofit organization that provides legal representation and technical assistance to Indian tribes, organizations and individuals nationwide

1991:听 is a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian housing organization working to build simple, decent, affordable, houses in partnership with those in need of adequate shelter.

1990:听is an author and advocate for the poor and oppressed.

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The award is accompanied by a cash stipend, and the recipient is invited to present a formal address and be recognized by the 麻豆入口 community.

The Center for Peace and Justice Education staff requests nominations from the 麻豆入口 community and after careful consideration of the list of candidates and supporting materials, they make a decision.

  

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